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Behind the anime
Episode Director
Tadahito "Tad" Mochinaga was a pioneer Japanese stop-motion animator.
Tadahito Mochinaga has 15 listed credits as a director. Their birth date is listed as March 3, 1919.
Behind the scenes, the most common credits are director (10), episode director (3), and 1st key animation director.
Our catalog lists 15 credits, including Fushigina Taiko, Nutcracker Fantasy, and Ou-sama ni Natta Kitsune.
The person behind the work
Tadahito "Tad" Mochinaga (持永 只仁, Mochinaga Tadahito; March 3, 1919 – April 1, 1999) was a pioneer Japanese stop-motion animator. Having done many stop motion films in Japan, he is best known as the animator for Rankin/Bass' "Animagic" productions at his MOM Production 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 the Chinese and Japanese animation industries.
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