Monkey Punch was born on May 26, 1937 in Hamanaka, Hokkaido, Japan as Kazuhiko Katô. He was a writer and director, known for Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Lupin III: Dead or Alive (1996) and Lupin III: Burning Memory - Tokyo Crisis (1998). He died on April 11, 2019 in Sakura, Chiba, Japan.