# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sunao-katabuchi
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:02:53.436Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sunao-katabuchi"
name: "Sunao Katabuchi"
slug: "sunao-katabuchi"
description: "Sunao Katabuchi  is a Japanese animation director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist. \nHe is director of Contrail Co. Ltd.\nHe 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. He has also served as a part-time lecturer at the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts since 2013. \nHe is married to a fellow director of anime Chie Uratani."
tagline: "Japanese screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katabuchi_Sunao_from_%22In_This_Corner_(and_Other_Corners)_of_the_World%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_(49014117897).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-08-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.529786266484766
  historical:           12.24588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "katabuchi_sunao"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0441090/"
    handle:    "nm0441090"
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    title: "سوناو كاتابوكى"
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    title: "Sunao Katabuchi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump