10 Facts About Sunao Katabuchi

Sunao Katabuchi is a Japanese animation director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist.

Sunao Katabuchi has been a part-time lecturer at Nihon University College of Art since 2006, and a Project Professor at the college of Art of at the same university since 2018.

Sunao Katabuchi has served as a part-time lecturer at the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts since 2013.

Sunao Katabuchi is married to a fellow director of anime Chie Uratani.

Sunao Katabuchi traveled to the US several times to work on Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, a Japan-US co-production of an animated film produced by Telecom, but decided to leave the company after becoming fed up with the project going astray as it was being pushed around by the American side.

Sunao Katabuchi was seconded to Studio Ghibli from Mushi Productions to work as an assistant director for Hayao Miyazaki on Kiki's Delivery Service in 1989.

Sunao Katabuchi made his directorial debut with the Nippon Animation TV series Famous Dog Lassie in 1996.

Sunao Katabuchi made his feature film directorial debut with Princess Arete.

Sunao Katabuchi directed, composed and wrote the screenplay for Black Lagoon series since 2006.

In 2016, Sunao Katabuchi directed In This Corner of the World produced by MAPPA, which was released on November 12,2016 in Japan, and planned to be released in fifteen countries including UK, France, Germany, Mexico and US.