Hisayuki Toriumi

29.10.1941, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan - 23.01.2009, Tokio, Japan

 

Director
Toriumi is a Japanese director and animator of anime films as well as a writer. He studied screenplay writing at a college before joining the production house Tatsunoko in 1966. He directed many anime for television and the most famous among them is Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, 1972-1974) and its adjoining projects such as the film Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, 1978). In 1979, he left Tatsunoko and together with a few colleagues founded his own company Studio Pierrot. He worked on the series Nirusu no fushigi na tabi (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, 1981) together with Mamoru Oshii and Taiyō no ko Esuteban (The Mysterious Cities of Gold, 1982-1983) with Bernard Deyriès. He made several anime for video such as Area 88 (1985), Lily C.A.T. (1987) and Saramandâ basikku saga meiso no Peora (1988). His last film is the anime feature film Kumo no yôni, kaze no yôni (Like the Clouds, Like the Wind, 1990). After finishing his career in animation, he started to write and published several novels.

Filmography


Films by this director

Science Ninja Team Gatchaman

(Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman, 1978.)

Directed by: Hisayuki Toriumi
Synopsis:

This is a sci-fi based on the anime series with the same title. The main villain X has travelled throughout the universe and arrived to Earth. Along the way he created the mutant Berg Katse and during the thirty years he became the leader of a terrorist organization that wants to conquer the world. Their main weapon is the mechanical monster King Turtle. Five teenagers from the Earth and with special powers and their space ship Godphoenix fight the villains.

digital, color, 110 min
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