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Behind the anime
Episode Director (eps 37, 46)
Tomoharu Katsumata is a Japanese film director best known for his work on various anime works.
Tomoharu Katsumata is a director and storyboard artist with 46 credits in Aniphoria's catalog. Their listed hometown is Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Their birth date is listed as February 4, 1938. Years active: 1964–present.
Production credits include episode director (20), director (17), and storyboard (6).
Our catalog lists 46 credits, including Sabu & Ichi's Arrest Warrant, Captain Harlock: Arcadia of my Youth, and Dino Mech Gaiking.
Their hometown is listed as Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
The person behind the work
Tomoharu Katsumata (勝間田 具治, Katsumata Tomoharu; born in February 4, 1938 in Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan) is a Japanese film director best known for his work on various anime works.
A leading director at the Toei Animation studio during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Katsumata worked as a director on several of Toei's anime television adaptations of manga by Go Nagai, including Devilman (1972), Mazinger Z (1972), Cutey Honey (1973), Great Mazinger (1974), UFO Robo Grendizer (1975) and Gaiking (1976) (both Grendizer and Gaiking became later part of Jim Terry's Force Five package on U.S. television).
Katsumata also directed a TV adaptation of Silver Fang -The Shooting Star Gin- in 1986.
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34 titles listed
