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name: "Naoki Matsuura"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/naoki-matsuura"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "24 March 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:09:17.145748+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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# Naoki Matsuura

Director. Born 24 March 1982 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 24 March 1982, Tokyo, Japan
- **Also known as:** 松浦 直紀
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9312846/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1865488

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Naoki Matsuura (松浦 直紀) is a Japanese animation director, episode director and storyboard artist. Born in Tokyo in 1982, he graduated from the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University in 2006. He began his career as a production assistant at studios including Polygon Pictures, Production I.G and ROBOT before becoming independent.

Matsuura has worked on numerous television series and films. He served as episode director on *Attack on Titan* (Final Season Part 2, 2022) and directed the full series *Liar Liar* (2023). Other credits include episode direction and storyboarding on *Black Clover* (2017), *Plunderer* (2020) and *Recovery of an MMO Junkie* (2017). He directed the feature *SutoPuri Movie: Hajimari no Monogatari – Strawberry School Festival!!!* (2024) and his original short film *Hizukuri* (2021). He is a member of the Japan Animation Association.

*Sources: myanimelist.net, imdb.com, naokimatsuura.com, skoota.jp, anidb.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Strawberry Prince Movie: The Beginning - Strawberry School Festival!!!* (2024), Director
- *Kaiju No. 8* (2024), series, Director
- *Liar, Liar* (2023), series, Series Director
- *Dolls' Frontline* (2022), series, Director
- *Fire Craft* (2021), Screenplay, Director, Original Story
- *Black Clover* (2017), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Atom: The Beginning* (2017), series, Director
- *Rage of Bahamut* (2014), series, Director
- *Attack on Titan* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/attack-on-titan.md)

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