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name: "Kiyoshi Fukumoto"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kiyoshi-fukumoto"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "8 May 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:08:06.157218+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kiyoshi Fukumoto

Director. Born 8 May 1958 in Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 8 May 1958, Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11593861, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2035669/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1455388

## Streaming the US now

- **Crunchyroll:** [*Attack on Titan*](https://film.one/tv/attack-on-titan.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kiyoshi Fukumoto is a Japanese anime director and episode director. Born on 8 May 1958 in Kishiwada, Osaka, he began working in animation in the late 1980s and has contributed to dozens of television series and films.

He directed four episodes of the 2013 series *Attack on Titan*. Fukumoto has also served as episode director or series director on *InuYasha* (2000–2004), *B't X* (1996), *Bakuman* (2010), *Guilty Crown* (2011), *Himouto! Umaru-chan* (2015) and *NARUTO Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals* (2012), and worked as a storyboard artist and assistant director on titles including *Cowboy Bebop: The Movie* (2001) and *Pokémon* (1997).

*Sources: anime-planet.com, animenewsnetwork.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Attack on Titan* (2013), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/attack-on-titan.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Himouto! Umaru-chan* (2015), series, Director
- *Attack on Titan* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/attack-on-titan.md)
- *NARUTO Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals* (2012), series, Director
- *Guilty Crown* (2011), series, Director
- *Bakuman* (2010), series, Director
- *Wan Wan Celeb Soreyuke! Tetsunoshin* (2006), series, Series Director
- *Zoids: Genesis* (2005), series, Director
- *Geobreeders: Breakthrough* (2000), series, Series Director, Director
- *Pokémon* (1997), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Tenchi in Tokyo* (1997), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *You're Under Arrest!* (1996), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Soar High! Isami* (1995), series, Director
- *Dragon Century* (1988), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Dragon Century* (1988), Director

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