Hisayuki Toriumi

Toriumi's direction is very smart, dramatic, and complete.{{cite web|url= http://www.style.fm/as/05_column/animesama100.shtml|author= |title= アニメ様の七転八倒 小黒祐一郎 第100回 タツノコ的な『ザ☆ウルトラマン』|date= August 29, 2008|accessdate= September 27, 2022|language=ja|website=WEBアニメスタイル|publisher=株式会社スタイル}}

Mamoru Oshii was strongly influenced by him, and Oshii professes him to be "my mentor."{{cite web|url= https://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/news/gjh1lq0000000vy5.html|language=ja|title= 押井守監督が語る日本アニメーションの「あの頃」と「これから」|date= August 10, 2016|accessdate= September 27, 2022|website= |publisher= Kyoto Seika University}}{{cite web|url= https://moviewalker.jp/news/article/1129866/|author= Orie Narita|title= 押井守が40年の時を経て明かした「ダロス」の謎。「自分の運命を狂わせたのもOVAで、立ち直ったのもOVA」|date=23 March 2023|accessdate= 28 November 2023|language=ja|website= |publisher= Movie Walker}}

According to Oshii, he always dealt with family as a theme in his work, and the relationship between father and son was especially important to him. On the other hand, he had no interested in dramas between men and women.{{Cite web |url = https://business.nikkei.com/atcl/seminar/19/00088/030200010/?P=3|author = |title = 007、009、そしてガッチャマンに通じるもの「007 ロシアより愛をこめて」（1963）前編 (3)|language=ja|date = March 5, 2020|accessdate= September 27, 2022|website = 日経ビジネス|publisher = Nikkei Business Publications}}

Toriumi also authored nearly two dozen novels. In addition to anime novelizations, he wrote mainly historically-themed novels based on Otogi-zōshi and Yomihon set in Japan from ancient times to the Middle Ages.

Toriumi was born in Isehara, Kanagawa Pref., Japan, and graduated from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Chuo University.

After attending a screenwriting institute while in college with an interest in filmmaking, he joined Tatsunoko Productions in 1966.

Toriumi was selected as the series director for the TV series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman in 1972, and went on to direct other Tatsunoko TV series in the 1970s including Tekkaman: The Space Knight and Hurricane Polymar.

He was then asked to direct a sequel to "Gatchaman," but he did not accept because the story was already complete in his mind and he had nothing further to do.{{cite web |url = https://akiba-souken.com/article/33316/|author= |title =「劇場版Infini-T Force/ ガッチャマン さらば友よ」、笹川ひろし&大河原邦男登壇のレジェンドトークショー公式レポートが到着!|language=ja|date = February 28, 2018|accessdate= September 27, 2022|website =アキバ総研|publisher =Kakaku.com}}

In December 1978, Toriumi left Tatsunoko.

Shocked by the death of the first president, Tatsuo Yoshida, and concerned about his own future at Tatsunoko, he decided to become a freelancer and take on work for other studios.

After working at Sunrise, he joined Yuji Nunokawa, who had quit Tatsunoko earlier, and became one of the founding members of Studio Pierrot.{{cite web|url= https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2047151/full/|author= |title= 押井守監督"お蔵入り"『劇場版 ニルスのふしぎな旅』1・31国内初公開|language=ja|date= January 13, 2015|accessdate= September 27, 2022|website= ORICON NEWS|publisher= Oricon }}

There, he worked on series such as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and The Mysterious Cities of Gold.

In The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Mamoru Oshii, who transferred from Tatsunoko to Pierrot after apply to be his apprentice, also participated as one of the episode directors.

However, in the following The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Oshii, who was scheduled to be an assistant director, was approached by President Nunokawa to direct Urusei Yatsura, and, prepared to be excommunicated, accepted the offer without telling Toriumi and dropped out.

Toriumi worked with his protégé, director Mamoru Oshii, on 1983's Dallos, the first original video animation (OVA) ever released.

Later, he left Studio Pierrot and became a freelancer again.

In 1990, he served as general director for the TV movie "Like the Clouds, Like the Wind," which featured character designer and animation director Katsuya Kondō and many other elite Studio Ghibli staff at the time.{{Cite web |url= https://anime.eiga.com/news/112496/ |title=「魔女の宅急便」の近藤勝也がキャラデザ 「雲のように風のように」HDリマスター版で初配信|language=ja|website= アニメハック|publisher= eiga.com|date=December 10, 2020 |accessdate=September 27, 2022}}

In his later years, he worked mainly on the children's programme Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō.

He died of heart failure on January 23, 2009, at the age of 67.

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