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.
Filmography
all 14
Movies 14
Director 12
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Ou-sama ni Natta Kitsune (1959)
Bunbuku Chagama (1958)
Fushigi na Taiko (1957)
The Stolen Lump (1957)
Beer, those were the days (1956)
Go-hiki no Kozaru-tachi (1956)
Uriko-hime to Amanojaku (1956)
Kitty Goes Fishing (1952)
Little Iron Pillar the Boy (1951)
Thank You, Kitty (1950)
Capturing the Turtle in the Jar (1948)
The Dream to Be an Emperor (1947)
Fuku-chan's Submarine (1944)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1919-03-03
Deathday1993-09-29 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceTokyo, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known As持永 只仁, 方明, Тадахито Мотинага
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