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Hiroshi Kataoka Biography |
 Hiroshi Kataoka
(Japan) Senior Director of Drama Product Division, NHK
Hiroshi Kataoka was born in Tokyo in 1959. He joined NHK in 1983 and has since worked on the planning, direction, and production of NHK drama programmes. Kataoka won the Hoso-Bunka Foundation Prize (Broadcast-Culture Foundation Prize) for his directorial debut project, Network Baby (1990).
He has since worked on some of Japan’s best-known television series including the weekday-morning series Kaze No Haruka (2006) and the year-long historical drama series Genroku Ryoran (1999). At the same time, he has worked on many one-off drama presentations including the Japan-UK co-production How to Speak Japanese (1993).
Many of his productions have won awards in Japan. Outside of television drama, Kataoka has wide-ranging experience as a director of feature films, computer games, and other entertainment software. In 2006, Kataoka also served in the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union as a script advisor and as a chief trainer at drama workshops. Currently, Kataoka is working on Five, a drama production about middle-aged basketball players trying to win a league title.
Major Productions
Network Baby (new-wave drama), 1990 / Einstein’s Romance (docudrama), 1991 / How to Speak Japanese (Japan-UK drama), 1993 / Tokyo Dragon (feature film), 1997/ Genroku Ryoran (year-long historical drama series), 1999 / Kessen (PlayStation 2 game series), 2003 / Onyado Kawsasemi (historical drama series), 2003 / Nikoniko Nikki (miniseries), 2003 / Taika No Kaishin (drama special set in ancient Japan), 2004/ Kaze No Haruka (weekday-morning drama series), 2006 |
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