Nishizaki, producer of `anime` Yamato, dies after falling into sea+

YOKOHAMA, Nov. 7 Kyodo -
Film producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, known for the popular TV ''anime'' series
''Uchu Senkan Yamato'' (Space Battleship Yamato), died Sunday after falling
into waters from a boat anchored at a port at Chichi Island in the Ogasawara
island chain in southern Tokyo, local police said.
Nishizaki, 75, fell from the boat around 12:35 p.m. and was rescued about 20
minutes later by a patrol boat, but he died shortly after, the police said.
Nishizaki, whose real given name was Hirofumi, was trying out his 485-ton boat,
named Yamato, from Sunday morning near the port. He appears to have
accidentally fallen from it while preparing to swim after putting on a
swimsuit, according to the police.
==Kyodo