Person

Katsuyoshi Yatabe

Directing

Known for: Directing
Born: Jul 11, 1956
From: Tokyo

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.