About

Known credits:
42
Birthday:
1932-01-11
Place of birth:
Toyonaka, Japan
Website:
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Tadanari Okamoto

Overview

Tadanari Okamoto (岡本 忠成) was a Japanese independent animator. From 1965 until his death he completed at least 37 short subject films in a wide variety of mediums, many of them winning award-winning, his honorific nicknamed "Sheldon Cohen and Hans Fischerkoesen of Japan." Eight of his films have been awarded the Ōfuji Noburō Award at the Mainichi Film Awards (more than any other director in the history of the prize) and his films have altogether earned at least 24 other awards internationally. In 2003, four of his films placed in a list of the best 150 animated films and series as voted for by practitioners and critics of animation from around the world in a survey commissioned by Tokyo's Laputa Animation Festival: most notably with The Magic Fox (おこんじょうるり, Okon Jōruri, literally "The Ballad Drama of Okon", 1982), which came twenty-eighth.

Known for

Acting
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Directing
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1993 Metropolitan Museum Directing Director 59
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1991 The Restaurant of Many Orders Directing Director 59
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1986 Koro wa Yane no Ue Directing Director N/A
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1983 A Donkey Got a Bit Sulky Directing Director N/A
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1982 People Come and Go Directing Director 59
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1982 The Magic Ballad Directing Director 59
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1981 White Elephant Directing Director N/A
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1981 Old Frypan Directing Director 59
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1980 Wasurerareta Ningyou Directing Director N/A
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1980 Be Quiet Please! Directing Director N/A
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1979 The Soba Flower of Mt. Oni Directing Director N/A
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1979 Beautiful Name Directing Director N/A
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1978 Panache the Squirrel Directing Director N/A
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1978 Yuki no Hi no Tayori Directing Director N/A
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1977 Towards the Rainbow Directing Director 59
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1976 The Strong Bridge Directing Director 59
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1976 Symphonic Variations Directing Director N/A
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1976 Who's That? Directing Director N/A
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1976 From Cherry Blossoms with Love Directing Director N/A
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1975 Onaka no Ookina Ouji-sama Directing Director N/A
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1975 The Water Seed Directing Director N/A
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1975 Urameshi Denwa Directing Director N/A
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1974 Five Small Stories Directing Director N/A
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1973 Praise be to Small Ills Directing Director 59
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1973 Tabi wa Michizure Yo wa Nasake Directing Director N/A
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1972 Monkey and Crab Directing Director 59
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1972 The Tree of Courage Directing Director N/A
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1971 December Song Directing Director 59
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1971 Chikotan Directing Director N/A
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1971 Osamishi Tani no Wakare Uta Directing Director N/A
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1970 The Flower and the Mole Directing Director 58
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1970 Home My Home Directing Director N/A
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1968 Ojiichan ga Kaizoku Datta Koro Directing Director 59
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1968 Ten Little Indians Directing Director 59
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1966 The Woodpecker Plan Directing Director 59
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1966 Welcome, Aliens Directing Director N/A
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1965 Mysterious Medicine Directing Director 58
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1964 Kirin Lemon no 'Otenki Mama-san' no Commercial Eizou Directing Director N/A
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1960 Mirror Directing Director N/A
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Visual Effects
1965 Mysterious Medicine Visual Effects Animation 58
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