Hisayuki Toriumi

Hisayuki Toriumi (鳥海 永行) was a Japanese director best known for having directed the television program Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. He also created several anime and manga series. He was credited in some sources as Eiko Toriumi.

Biography
Toriumi cut his teeth working on Gatchaman and several other Tatsunoko Production series of the 1970s, but broke away from Tatsunoko in 1979 to become one of the founding members of Studio Pierrot, where he worked on series such as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Mysterious Cities of Gold. In his later years he retired from the animation business to become a freelance novelist.

Filmography

 * Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman (1972)
 * Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog (1973)
 * Tekkaman: The Space Knight (1975)
 * Goliath the Super Fighter (1976)
 * Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman: Gekijô-ban (1978)
 * Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman II (1978)
 * Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman F(1979)
 * The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1980)
 * Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982)
 * Area 88 (1985)
 * Lily C.A.T. (1987)
 * Salamander (1988)
 * Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (1989)
 * Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings (1991)