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Filmmaker · Japan

Katsuhiro Otomo

Katsuhiro Otomo was born on 14 April 1954 in Tome, in Miyagi Prefecture. He published his first comic story in 1973 in the weekly Manga Action, based on a text by a French writer. He then moved into animation, where he directed several films, including a feature film in 2004. Inducted in 2012 into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame, he received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2013, was made an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014 and won the Grand Prix of the Angoulême festival in 2015, the first Japanese comics author so honoured.

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