Motohiro Katsuyuki is a very famous director in Japan, and Odoru Dai-sousasen in particular, is a MASSIVE HIT Police drama series, and basically was an amazingly successful reboot of the genre which used to be one of the dominating genre on TV back in the days of Taiyo ni Hoero, Seibu Keisatsu, etc.
He's directed tons of popular TV series on Japanese television, as well as over a dozen theatrical film.
Dude is quite a
far cry from amature.
Show you how much ani-ota focused some of these wikipedia editors are.
As for anime, he's a long-time old school anime fan, and used Evangelion and Gundam BGMs in his movies.
He's a vocal fan of Anno, Tomino and Oshii Mamoru. In fact, Dai-sousasen's police drama took a lot of que from Oshii's work on Patlabor.
Also, your link didn't take me to any article with content.
If you can provide the original Japanese source on it, I can tell you exactly what was said.