Monkey Punch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Monkey Punch

manga artist

Date of Birth: 26-May-1937

Place of Birth: Hamanaka, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 11-Apr-2019

Profession: screenwriter, mangaka

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Kazuhiko Kato (Japanese: ????, Hepburn: Kato Kazuhiko, May 26, 1937 – April 11, 2019), known by the pen name Monkey Punch (????·???, Monki Panchi), was a Japanese manga artist, best known for his series Lupin III.
In April 2005, he became the professor of Manga Animation at Otemae University, in their Faculty of Media and Arts, and was a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Technology in May 2010.
He was born in Hamanaka, Hokkaido, and resided in Sakura, Chiba until his death in 2019.
He received the Inkpot Award in 1981 and a special Tokyo Anime Award in 2015.