Tatsuhiko Urahata

Writing

Tatsuhiko Urahata

Born 1963-01-01 · Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuhiko Urahata (浦畑 達彦, Urahata Tatsuhiko) is a Japanese screenwriter born in 1963 and formerly affiliated with the animation studio Madhouse. Currently working as an independent and dedicated to write scripts for many anime series. He is a member of the Writers Guild of Japan.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll poster
8.1

Violet Evergarden, a former soldier returned from war, comes to teach at a women's academy and changes a young girl's life.

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll

2019

Twilight of the Dark Master poster
5.4

Tsunami is an ancient guardian from days long ago when the Mother Spirit created demons and guardians to aid a fledgling human race. In 2089, only a few demons and guardians remain in the city of Neo-Shinjuku. Tsunami becomes involved with a woman who has just lost her fiance and her arm and now wants to figure out why this has happened. Meanwhile, the demon leader is still alive and plotting to enslave mankind.

Twilight of the Dark Master

1997

Fighting Spirit - Mashiba vs. Kimura poster
7.0

Kimura finally has his championship match. It takes place at the annual champion carnival. But now he must face the intense champion, Mashiba for the Junior Lightweight championship.

Fighting Spirit - Mashiba vs. Kimura

2003

Junk Boy poster
4.4

Overconfident 23-year-old Ryouhei somehow lucks into a job at the lucrative skin mag Potato Boy, with his only qualification being an abnormally high sex drive. Immediately smitten with the publication's prestigious editor Yuki (and just about every other female colleague), Ryouhei shows a libidinous instinct that could take Potato Boy to the next level — if he can ever take the job seriously.

Junk Boy

1987

DNA Sights 999.9 poster
6.0

After a meteor hits Earth, traitor forces have (for all intents and purposes) taken over, and the people are suffering. In the chaos, a boy named Tetsuro Daiba, who had lost his parents in the meteor hit, is paid a visit by Mello, a mysterious woman appearing in a bright light. When Daiba comes to, he finds itself in a spaceship infirmary under observation. Stealing a fighter that he didn't know how to pilot (until he tried it), he breaks out, flying like a total pro.

DNA Sights 999.9

1998

Urusei Yatsura: Catch the Heart poster
6.2

A mischievous spirit gives Ran a heart-shaped candy that causes a magical heart to appear over the head of whoever eats it. And whoever catches that heart captures the heart of the person who ate the candy! And if there's one thing the Urusei Yatsura crowd can do, it's play catch!

Urusei Yatsura: Catch the Heart

1989

Rail of the Star - A True Story of Children and War poster
6.1

A young Japanese actress remembers her war childhood in Korea. Her father goes to fight, her baby sister Miko dies of typhoid, her beloved Korean maid Ohana is fired due to a mistake which could cost Chiko her life... By and by Chiko realizes that the country is being ruled by the Japanese and the Koreans are persecuted. When the war ends, the Koreans chase the Japanese rule and the roles change. Now Chiko's family is unwanted. But then the Russians come and this is the end. They have to burn all the pictures to avoid all suspicions... even Miko's picture. But when the Russians come to their house, they decide to flee over the 38th Parallel towards freedom. A group of men, women, children struggles along the mountains, led by the light of the Northern Star. Along the way they meet a Korean man, who is willing to help them to escape the Russian soldiers although his family was killed by the Japanese.

Rail of the Star - A True Story of Children and War

1993

Mermaid's Scar poster
5.9

According to an ancient Japanese legend, mermaid flesh may grant immortality if eaten. However, there is a much greater chance that consumption will lead to death or transformation into a damned creature known as a Lost Soul (or Deformed Ones in the English dub). Mermaid Saga tells the tale of Yuta, an immortal who has been alive for five hundred years, who is wandering across Japan searching for a cure and meeting others whose lives have also been ruined by mermaid flesh in the process.

Mermaid's Scar

1993

Tokyo Babylon 1 poster
NR

Spirit medium Subaru Sumeragi is hired to exorcise a construction site believed to be cursed, where the only living suspect has the ability to walk away from strange situations where he should have died.

Tokyo Babylon 1

1992