Tadahito Mochinaga

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1919-03-03

Deathday 1999-04-01 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Tokyo

Also Known As 持永 只仁, 方明, Тадахито Мотинага, Tad Mochinaga

Tadahito Mochinaga

Biography

Tadahito "Tad" Mochinaga was a pioneer Japanese stop-motion animator. Having done many stop motion films/shorts in Japan, he is best known as the animator for Rankin/Bass' "Animagic" productions at his MOM Studio in Tokyo throughout the 1960s. He did this work in association with American director Arthur Rankin, Jr. who wrote and designed the productions before sending them to Japan for animation. In 1945, Mochinaga traveled to Xinjing in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo set up in occupied China, to work at the Manchukuo Film Association. He stayed in China after the war and from 1950, he spent three years in Shanghai working on such films as Thank You, Kitty. He is perhaps the only major artist of the era to have worked in both Chinese and Japanese animation industries.

Known For

Director

1959
1958
Bunbuku Chagama

as Director

1957
Fushigi na Taiko

as Director

1957
The Stolen Lump

as Director

1956
1956
1952
Kitty Goes Fishing

as Director

1950
Thank You, Kitty

as Director

Visual Effects

1965
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine

as Animation Supervisor

1956

Crew

1967
Mad Monster Party?

as Cinematography

1947
The Dream to Be an Emperor

as Cinematography

Camera

1944
Fuku-chan's Submarine

as Director of Photography