Katsuyoshi Yatabe
- Directing
- July 11, 1956 · Tokyo
Biography
Katsuyoshi Yatabe (谷田部 勝義) is a Japanese screenwriter and director born July 11, 1956 in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating he joined the Department of Arts at Nihon Daigaku in 1975. In 1978 he joined Ad Cosmo but felt that as subcontrctractor there would be no real productions done and thus went on to join Sunrise in 1979. There he learned under Yoshiyuki Tomino and Ryousuke Takahashi before becoming freelancer. He also uses the aliases of Futa Morita (森田 風太) and Kota Morita (森田 光太), which are the names of his sons.
Known for
Filmography
- Hello Anne: Before Green Gables · Director
- Dinosaur King · Series Director
- NANA · Director
- Strawberry Panic · Director
- Detective School Q · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Hikaru no Go · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Shin Hakkenden · Director
- Gundress · Director, Sound Director
- ふたり暮らし · Producer
- Legend of the Mystical Ninja · Series Director
- EAT-MAN · Storyboard Artist
- Street Fighter II: V · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Jura Tripper · Screenplay
- Muka Muka Paradise · Creator
- The Brave of Legend Da-Garn · Director
- The Brave of the Sun Fighbird · Series Director, Storyboard Artist
- Brave Exkaiser · Series Director, Creator
- Bad Boys Boogie · Director
- Bucchigiri · Director, Writer
- Ronin Warriors · Storyboard, Director
- Mashin Hero Wataru · Director
- Dirty Pair OVA · Series Director, Director
- Blue Comet SPT Layzner · Director, Storyboard
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Vol.1 Stories of the 'A.T. VOTOMS' · Director, Writer
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Last Red Shoulder · Storyboard Artist
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS · Storyboard, Director
- Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked · Assistant Director, Co-Director