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name: "Yusuke Kamata"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yusuke-kamata"
fi1m_id: "yusuke-kamata"
imdb_id: "nm1992300"
tmdb_id: 2985793
roles: ["Director"]
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average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T19:51:13.118842+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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# Yusuke Kamata

## Identity

Yusuke Kamata

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yusuke-kamata
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yusuke-kamata
- **IMDb ID:** nm1992300
- **TMDB ID:** 2985793
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1992300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2985793

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2014–2016
- **Also known as:** かまた ゆうすけ, 鎌田裕輔, Yuusuke Kamata, 鎌田 祐輔
- **Frequently works with:** [Wakana Okamura](https://film.one/person/wakana-okamura.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1992300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2985793

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Haikyu!!*](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Yusuke Kamata (also credited as Yûsuke Kamada and 鎌田 祐輔) is a Japanese anime director and animator. He has contributed to numerous series in roles including key animation, animation director and storyboard artist.

Kamata has directed episodes of *Haikyu!!* (2014) and *My Hero Academia* (2016). He is also credited as director on series including *Assassination Classroom* (2015), *Welcome to the Ballroom* (2017), *Classroom of the Elite* (2017), *Kino's Journey -the Beautiful World- the Animated Series* (2017), *Run with the Wind* (2018) and *TONIKAWA: Over the Moon for You* (2020).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Haikyu!!* (2014), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *mono* (2025), series, Key Animation
- *SHY* (2023), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *KanColle: See You Again on Another Quiet Blue Sea* (2022), series, Key Animation, Director
- *Idoly Pride* (2021), series, Animation Director
- *TONIKAWA: Over the Moon for You* (2020), series, Director
- *Given* (2020), Animation Director
- *Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun* (2020), series, Assistant Director
- *Run with the Wind* (2018), series, Director
- *Seven Senses of the Re'Union* (2018), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Cardfight!! Vanguard* (2018), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Kino's Journey -the Beautiful World- the Animated Series* (2017), series, Director
- *Classroom of the Elite* (2017), series, Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation Director, Key Animation
- *Welcome to the Ballroom* (2017), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Magical Girl Raising Project* (2016), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *My Hero Academia* (2016), series, Director
- *Seiyu's Life!* (2015), series, Key Animation
- *Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace* (2015), series, Supervising Animation Director
- *Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 3: The Brightness Falls* (2015), Key Animation
- *Maria the Virgin Witch* (2015), series, Key Animation
- *Assassination Classroom* (2015), series, Animation Director, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Your Lie in April* (2014), series, Key Animation
- *Haikyu!!* (2014), series, Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)
- *Love Live! School Idol Project* (2013), series, Animation Director
- *Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie* (2012), Key Animation
- *Space Brothers* (2012), series, Director, Animation Director, Key Animation
- *Daily Lives of High School Boys* (2012), series, Animation Director, Key Animation
- *Chihayafuru* (2011), series, Animation Director
- *Copihan* (2011), series, Character Designer, Supervising Animation Director
- *Arakawa Under the Bridge* (2010), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files The Movie* (2009), Key Animation
- *Myself; Yourself* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei* (2007), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Hellsing Ultimate* (2006), series, Animation Director
- *Netrun-mon the Movie* (2004), Director, Storyboard
- *W Wish* (2004), series, Key Animation, Director
- *Good Morning Call* (2001), Key Animation
- *The Big O* (1999), series, Key Animation

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