Tomoharu Katsumata
Tomoharu Katsumata 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, Mazinger Z, Cutey Honey, Great Mazinger, UFO Robo Grendizer and Gaiking . Katsumata also directed a TV adaptation of 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 in Tokyo, working as a director on some of Toei's early television series, including Ken the Wolf Boy, the original Cyborg 009 anime and Tiger Mask.
Among Katsumata's other credits for Toei as a director include the TV series Captain Future, Fist of the North Star and OVA series Saint Seiya: Hades, and the feature films Mazinger Z vs. Devilman, The Little Mermaid, and Arcadia of My Youth, New Attacker You in 2008.
