Tadanari Okamoto
Directing
Born January 11, 1932 · Toyonaka, Japan
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.
Directed (39)
Sozai Kara Image no Teichaku Made
2009
Metropolitan Museum
1993
The Restaurant of Many Orders
1991
Koro wa Yane no Ue
1986
A Donkey Got a Bit Sulky
1983
The Magic Ballad
1982
People Come and Go
1982
Old Frypan
1981
White Elephant
1981
Be Quiet Please!
1980
The Forgotten Doll
1980
The Soba Flower of Mt. Oni
1979
Beautiful Name
1979
Panache the Squirrel
1978
Yuki no Hi no Tayori
1978
Towards the Rainbow
1977
Who's That?
1976
The Strong Bridge
1976
From Cherry Blossoms with Love
1976
Symphonic Variations
1976
The Water Seed
1975
Urameshi Denwa
1975
Onaka no Ookina Ouji-sama
1975
Five Small Stories
1974
Praise be to Small Ills
1973
Tabi wa Michizure Yo wa Nasake
1973
Monkey and Crab
1972
The Tree of Courage
1972
Chikotan
1971
December Song
1971
Osamishi Tani no Wakare Uta
1971
The Flower and the Mole
1970
Home My Home
1970
Ten Little Indians
1968
Ojiichan ga Kaizoku Datta Koro
1968
The Woodpecker Plan
1966
Welcome, Aliens
1966
Mysterious Medicine
1965
Mirror
1960