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Behind the anime
Director
He made his debut as an animator on the show Big X, and joined Mushi Production working there as a director.
Masami Hata has 59 listed credits as a director and storyboard artist. Their listed hometown is Taipei, Taiwan. Their birth date is listed as November 5, 1942. Years active: 1964–present.
Behind the scenes, the most common credits are director (21), storyboard (13), and episode director (13).
Our catalog lists 59 credits, including Stitch!, Stitch! ~The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure~, and InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time.
Their hometown is listed as Taipei, Taiwan.
The person behind the work
He made his debut as an animator on the show Big X, and joined Mushi Production working there as a director. Around 1975, he began working at Sanrio, which was just moving into the anime market, and wound up staying there for over a decade, going on to direct several of Sanrio's full-length theatrical features such as Chirin no Suzu, Sirius no Densetsu and Yousei Florence.
He has been working as a freelancer since the breakup of Sanrio's animation department in 1985 following the release of the film Yousei Florence, directing and storyboarding for TV series and movies at various studios.
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