Katsuhide Motoki

Katsuhide Motoki is the kind of filmmaker who operates completely behind the curtain — no celebrity fuss, no social media persona, just the quiet authority of someone who's been doing the real work for decades. Born in Toyama in 1963, he came up through Waseda University before making his way into the film industry, and there's something fitting about a guy from the snowy Sea of Japan coast ending up as a director: patient, deliberate, unbothered by flash. The director's chair tends to reward exactly that combination — someone who can see the whole picture, hold a crew together, and drag a project across the finish line through sheer composure. Not a household name overseas, but in Japanese film circles, the craftspeople behind the camera often carry more lasting weight than anyone in front of it.

This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.

Katsuhide Motoki is a Japanese film director and producer born on December 6, 1963, in Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture. He attended Toyama Prefectural Toyama Chubu High School and later graduated from Waseda University. He is known as a behind-the-camera filmmaker rather than a public-facing entertainer, working in the Japanese film industry as a director and producer.

Name (English)

Katsuhide Motoki

Name (Japanese)

本木克英

Reading

もとき かつひで

Born

December 6, 1963 (age 62)

Origin

Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Film Director / Producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

High school

Toyama Prefectural Toyama Chubu High School

University

Waseda University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AC%E6%9C%A8%E5%85%8B%E8%8B%B1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3194224

Tags

• From Toyama Prefecture
• Film Director
• Producer
• Director

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.