1982Winner
Best Director
Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked
Katsuyoshi Yatabe
Director · Writer
Tokyo
July 11, 1956
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1999Nominee
Best Director
Gundress
1989Nominee
Best Director
Bad Boys Boogie
Career Highlights
1985Highlight
Best Director
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Vol.1 Stories of the 'A.T. VOTOMS'
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Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked
Gundress