Atsuko Ishizuka began making many films while attending the Aichi University of the Arts. She joined Madhouse in 2004 and worked as a production assistant while taking on her first job as director for a music video for Tsuki no Waltz (The Moon Waltz) on NHK television’s Minna no Uta (Everyone’s Songs). Ishizuka went on to direct many works at the acclaimed Studio Madhouse, including the television series No Game, No Life, Hanayamata, Prince of Stride: Alternative, her first theatrical film No Game, No Life the Movie: Zero in 2017, and the full-length original animated series, A Place Further Than The Universe in 2018.