Biography
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.
Katsumata graduated from Nippon University's film school in 1960 and began working with the Kyoto division of the Toei Company that same year as an assistant director to Masahiro Makino, Eiichi Kudo, Tomotaka Tasaka on his samurai dramas. After a few years, Katsumata moved to Toei Doga (Toei Animation) in Tokyo, working as a director on some of Toei's early television series, including Wolf Boy Ken (1963), the original Cyborg 009 anime (1968) and Tiger Mask (1970).Among Katsumata's other credits for Toei as a director include the TV series Captain Future (1978), Fist of the North Star (1984) and OVA series Saint Seiya: Hades (2005, episodes 14 to 31), and the feature films Mazinger Z vs. Devilman (1973), The Little Mermaid (Anderusen Douwa Ningyo Hime, 1975), and Arcadia of My Youth (1982). Katsumata also directed New Attacker You (続・アタッカーYOU 金メダルへの道 Zoku atakkā YOU- kin medaru e no michi?) for Knack Productions in 2008.
Filmography
all 47
Director 44
Movies 28
TV Shows 19
Producer 2
Writer 1
Tanken Driland - 1000-nen no Mahō - (2013)
Saint Seiya Omega (2012)
Gaiking III (2011)
Gaiking II (2011)
Gaiking (2011)
Great Yamato No. Zero (2004)
Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter (2002)
Salaryman Kintaro (2001)
The Prince and the Coral Sea (2000)
Spooky Kitaro: The Great Sea Beast (1996)
Sangokushi: The Distant Land (1994)
Rokudenashi Blues 1993 (1993)
Sangokushi: The Yangtze Is Burning! (1993)
Great Conquest: The Romance of Three Kingdoms (1992)
Fist of the North Star - TV Compilation 2 - Six Sacred Fists of Nanto! Rei, the Star of Justice (1988)
Saint Seiya (1986)
Silver Fang (1986)
Odin: Starlight Mutiny (1985)
Dream Fighter Wingman (1984)
Space Battleship Yamato - Final Chapter (1983)
Future War 198X (1982)
Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX (1982)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
Run Melos! (1981)
Be Forever Yamato (1980)
Goldrake Addio (1980)
Captain Future: The Great Race in the Solar System (1978)
Captain Future (1978)
Magnerobo Ga-Keen (1976)
Magnos The Robot (1976)
Dino Mech Gaiking (1976)
Puss 'n Boots Travels Around the World (1976)
UFO Robot Grendizer Theatrical Version (1975)
Hansel and Gretel (1975)
Battlefield of the Space Saucers (1975)
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (1975)
Great Mazinger (1974)
Cutie Honey (1973)
The Little Judge from Hell (1973)
Mazinger Z vs. Devilman (1973)
Mazinger Z (1972)
Devilman (1972)
The Three Musketeers in Boots (1972)
Tiger Mask (1970) (1970)
Tiger Mask (1969)
Rainbow Sentai Robin (1966)
Way of Morning Mist (1961)
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GenderMale
Birthday1938-02-04 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceShizuoka Prefecture, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known As勝間田 具治, かつまた ともはる, 胜间田具治
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