kiyoshi daniel kohatsu, or daniel kiyoshi, is an animation director and producer. he was born in lince, lima, peru in march 1971. of japanese descent, kiyoshi attended primary and secondary school at la union school. he enrolled the faculty of arts of the catholic university of peru. uncontented with the escolasticics of "artsi farsi", kiyoshi decided to leave the university and moved to tokyo and then to vancouver, canada to follow studies in cinema. later, he graduated from vancouver film school as an animation artist. under the tutelage and watchful eye of animator and director of cartoons marv newland, founder of "international rocketship", kiyoshi started a career dedicated to production of animation. as a freelancer, kohatsu worked on several projects for dreamworks, warner bros., mtv, nickelodeon and disney,