Tadanari Okamoto

Personal Info

Known For Director

Birthday 1932-01-11

Deathday 1990-02-16 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Toyonaka, Japan

Tadanari Okamoto

Biography

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

Director

1993
1986
Koro wa Yane no Ue

as Director

1983
1982
The Magic Ballad

as Director

1982
People Come and Go

as Director

1981
Old Frypan

as Director

1981
White Elephant

as Director

1980
1980
Be Quiet Please!

as Director

1979
Beautiful Name

as Director

1978
1978
1977
1976
The Strong Bridge

as Director

1976
Who's That?

as Director

1976
1975
The Water Seed

as Director

1975
Urameshi Denwa

as Director

1974
Five Small Stories

as Director

1973
1972
Monkey and Crab

as Director

1972
1971
December Song

as Director

1971
Chikotan

as Director

1970
Home My Home

as Director

1970
1968
Ten Little Indians

as Director

1966
1966
Welcome, Aliens

as Director

1965
1960
Mirror

as Director

Visual Effects

1965
Mysterious Medicine

as Animation