Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Katsuhiro Ôtomo was born on Apr 14, 1954 in Japan. Katsuhiro Ôtomo's big-screen debut came with Crusher Joe: The Movie directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko in 1983. Katsuhiro Ôtomo is known for The Akira Project directed by Nguyen-Anh Nguyen, Osric Chau stars as Kaneda Shotaro and Phi Huynh as Special Force. Katsuhiro Ôtomo has got 6 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Katsuhiro Ôtomo achieved is Annie Awards. The upcoming new movie Katsuhiro Ôtomo plays is The Akira Project which will be released on Jun 21, 2015.

Katsuhiro Ôtomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation.In 1979, after writing multiple short-stories for the magazine Action, Otomo created his first science-fiction work, titled Fireball. Although the manga was never completed, it is regarded as a milestone in Otomo's career as it contained many of the same themes he would explore in his later. In 1982, Otomo made his anime debut, working as character designer for the animated film Harmagedon. The next year, Otomo began work on a manga which would become his most acclaimed and famous work: Akira. It took eight years to complete and would eventually culminate in 2000 pages of artwork. While the serialization of Akira was taking place, Otomo decided to animate it into a feature film, although the manga was yet to be finished. In 1988, the animated film Akira was released.Otomo became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012, and was awarded the Purple Medal of Honor from the Japanese government in 2013.