Born in 1960. While studying at Nihon University College of Art’s Department of Cinema, he participated in the writing team of “Sherlock Hound”. After graduating, he work as an assistant director on “Kiki’s Delivery Service” in 1989. And he made his directorial debut with the Nippon Animation TV series “Famous Dog Lassie” in 1996. Also, he made a feature film directorial debut with “Princess Arete” in 2001. He directed, composed and wrote the screenplay for “BLACK LAGOON” series since 2006. His seconed feature film is “Mai Mai Miracle”, based on Nobuko Takagi’s autobiography, Maimai Shinko.And the film debuted at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in 2009. In 2016, Katabuchi directed “In This Corner of the World”, which was released on November 12, 2016 in Japan.This film won the 40th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Animated Film, the 90th Kinema Junpo Best 10 Award for Best Japanese Film as the second-ever animated film, and the Jury Award at the 41st Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and was nominated for the 45th Annie Award for Best Animated Feature-Independent. An extended version of the film, titled “In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World”, premiered on December 20, 2019. He is currently working on a new work, “The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black”, which describes the period of the classical Japanese essay literature “The Pillow Book”.