Hisayuki Toriumi

Hisayuki Toriumi (鳥海 永行, Toriumi Hisayuki, July 9, 1941 – January 23, 2009), sometimes credited as Eikō Toriumi, was a Japanese animation director, storyboardist, screenwriter, and novelist.[1] He is best known for directing the TV show Science Ninja Team Gatchaman and also credited for his contributions to several other anime series.[1] He is known to Japanese fans for his TV series The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō and to international fans for his work in Area 88, Dallos, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, and Tekkaman: The Space Knight.[1]

Hisayuki Toriumi
Born(1941-07-09)July 9, 1941
Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan[1]
DiedJanuary 23, 2009(2009-01-23) (aged 67)[1]
NationalityJapanese
Other namesEiko Toriumi
Occupation(s)Director, screenwriter, novelist
Employer(s)Tatsunoko Production, Studio Pierrot
Known forScience Ninja Team Gatchaman franchise
SpouseHiroko[1]

Toriumi's direction is very smart, dramatic, and complete.[2] Mamoru Oshii was strongly influenced by him, and Oshii professes him to be "my mentor."[3] He always dealt with family as a theme in his work, and the relationship between father and son was especially important to him. On the other hand, he had no interested in dramas between men and women.[4]

Toriumi also authored nearly two dozen novels. In addition to anime novelizations, he wrote mainly historically-themed novels based on Otogi-zōshi and Yomihon set in Japan from ancient times to the Middle Ages.[1] His representative work is the Kyūkei no Figurido series, which depicts the adventures and revenge of a man of Murakami Suigun who becomes a battle slave in Europe, where he arrives due to the betrayal of his comrades, set in England and France during the Hundred Years' War and in Japan during the Northern and Southern Courts.

Biography

Toriumi was born in Isehara, Kanagawa Pref., Japan, and graduated from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Chuo University.[1] After attending a screenwriting institute while in college with an interest in filmmaking, he joined Tatsunoko Productions in 1966.[1]

Toriumi was selected as the series director for the TV series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman in 1972, and went on to direct other Tatsunoko TV series in the 1970s including Tekkaman: The Space Knight and Hurricane Polymar.[1] He was then asked to direct a sequel to "Gatchaman," but he did not accept because the story was already complete in his mind and he had nothing further to do.[4][5]

In December 1978, Toriumi left Tatsunoko. Shocked by the death of the first president, Tatsuo Yoshida, and concerned about his own future at Tatsunoko, he decided to become a freelancer and take on work for other studios. After working at Sunrise, he joined Yuji Nunokawa, who had quit Tatsunoko earlier, and became one of the founding members of Studio Pierrot.[1][6] There, he worked on series such as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and The Mysterious Cities of Gold. In The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Mamoru Oshii, who transferred from Tatsunoko to Pierrot after apply to be his apprentice, also participated as one of the episode directors.[6] However, in the following The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Oshii, who was scheduled to be an assistant director, was approached by President Nunokawa to direct Urusei Yatsura, and, prepared to be excommunicated, accepted the offer without telling Toriumi and dropped out.[3]

Toriumi worked with his protégé, director Mamoru Oshii, on 1983's Dallos, the first original video animation (OVA) ever released.[1]

Later, he left Studio Pierrot and became a freelancer again.

In 1990, he served as general director for the TV movie "Like the Clouds, Like the Wind," which featured character designer and animation director Katsuya Kondō and many other elite Studio Ghibli staff at the time.[7]

After leaving Tatsunoko, he became a prolific novelist from the 1980s onward.[1]

He died of heart failure on January 23, 2009, at the age of 67.

Filmography
Year Title Medium Roll Animation studio Notes
1967-1968 Speed Racer TV series Episode director Tatsunoko Production
1967-1968 Oraa Guzura Dado TV series Episode director, scriptwriter Tatsunoko Production
1968-1969 Dokachin the Primitive Boy TV series Episode director Tatsunoko Production
1969 Judo Boy TV series Episode director Tatsunoko Production
1970-1971 The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee TV series Episode director Tatsunoko Production
1971 Animated Documentary Decision TV series Episode director Tatsunoko Production
1972 Pinocchio: The Series TV series Episode director Tatsunoko Production
1972-1974 Science Ninja Team Gatchaman TV series Series director, planner, screenwriter, episode director Tatsunoko Production
1974-1975 Hurricane Polymar TV series Series director, planner, screenwriter, episode director Tatsunoko Production
1975 Tekkaman: The Space Knight TV series Series director (episode 14 to 26), planner, screenwriter, episode director Tatsunoko Production
1976 Goliath the Super Fighter TV series Series director, planner, screenwriter, episode director Tatsunoko Production
1978 Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: The Movie Feature film Director Tatsunoko Production Digest of the TV series.
1976-1977 Paul's Miraculous Adventure TV series Episode director Tatsunoko Production
1978-1979 Gatchaman II TV series Planner Tatsunoko Production
1979-1980 Gatchaman Fighter TV series Planner Tatsunoko Production
1979-1980 The Ultraman TV series Chief director (episode 1 to 13), storyboard[nb 1] Sunrise
1980-1981 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils TV series Chief director, episode director Studio Pierrot
1980-1981 Space Warrior Baldios TV series Screenwriter Ashi Production, Kokusai Eiga-sha
1981 Space Warrior Baldios the Movie Feature film General director Ashi Production, Kokusai Eiga-sha The first half is a digest version of the TV series; the second half is an unaired episode on TV.
1982-1983 The Mysterious Cities of Gold TV series Series director, animation production, storyboard, episode director Studio Pierrot, DIC Audiovisuel
1983 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils the Movie Feature film Director Studio Pierrot The film was not released theatrically at the time of its completion, but was screened for the first time in January 2015 at Uplink Shibuya in Tokyo.[8]
1983–1985 Dallos OVA Original story, director[nb 2], screenwriter, episode director Studio Pierrot
1984-1985 Bismark TV series Planner Studio Pierrot
1985-1986 Ninja Senshi Tobikage TV series Storyboard Studio Pierrot
1985-1986 Area 88 OVA Director Studio Pierrot
1986 Bari Bari Densetsu OVA Supervisor Studio Pierrot
1987 Lily C.A.T. OVA Original story, director Studio Pierrot
1988-1989 Salamander OVA Director Studio Pierrot
1989 Baoh OVA Supervisor, storyboard Studio Pierrot
1990 Like the Clouds, Like the Wind Television film General director Studio Pierrot
1991 Shinzan Gensōtan (Yumemakura Baku Twilight Gekijō) OVA Coordinator Studio Pierrot
1991 Michitekuru Toki no Mukō ni Television film Director Studio Pierrot
1991-1993 Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings OVA Director (episode 7 to 9), storyboard Kitty Films
1993-2008 Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō TV series Series director, series composition Studio Signpost
1998 Pinka to Umi no Otomodachi TV series Director T Factory
1999 Cybuster TV series Supervisor Ashi Production
2001 Kaze no Yojimbo TV series Story advisor, scriptwriter Studio Pierrot
2008-2009 Hakken Taiken Daisuki! Shimajirō TV series Series director, series composition[nb 3] Studio Signpost Last work.

Notes
  1. He dropped out of the program at the same time as other staff and some Sunrise employees, but the reason remains undisclosed.
  2. He did not appear in the credits, but actually co-directed with Mamoru Oshii.[3]
  3. Live-action parts were added to Shimajirō's new series, but he only worked on the animation parts.

References
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  2. "アニメ様の七転八倒 小黒祐一郎 第100回 タツノコ的な『ザ☆ウルトラマン』". WEBアニメスタイル (in Japanese). 株式会社スタイル. August 29, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  3. "押井守監督が語る日本アニメーションの「あの頃」と「これから」" (in Japanese). Kyoto Seika University. August 10, 2016. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  4. "007、009、そしてガッチャマンに通じるもの「007 ロシアより愛をこめて」（1963）前編 (3)". 日経ビジネス (in Japanese). Nikkei Business Publications. March 5, 2020. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
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  6. "押井守監督"お蔵入り"『劇場版 ニルスのふしぎな旅』1・31国内初公開". ORICON NEWS (in Japanese). Oricon. January 13, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  7. "「魔女の宅急便」の近藤勝也がキャラデザ 「雲のように風のように」HDリマスター版で初配信". アニメハック (in Japanese). eiga.com. December 10, 2020. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
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