director
Eiji Aonuma
青沼英二
About
Eiji Aonuma is a Japanese game director and producer at Nintendo, born in 1963 in Nagano Prefecture. He studied mechanical doll construction at the Tokyo University of the Arts and joined Nintendo in 1988 — a career change so complete that he admitted at his job interview to having barely played any video games. He worked as dungeon designer on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998), then directed Majora's Mask (2000), his first full directorial credit on the series, followed by The Wind Waker (2002). He later moved into the producer's role, overseeing entries including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) — proof that a craftsman's eye for construction can outweigh a gamer's instinct.
Timeline & Works
Career milestones and all 2 games in the museum they worked on — in the order they happened.
- 2000
- 2002
Also connected to
- shigeru miyamoto 共作（zelda majoras mask） / 共作（zelda wind waker）
- takashi tezuka 共作（zelda wind waker）
- yoshiaki koizumi 共作（zelda majoras mask）