Director

Tadahito Mochinaga

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 1593634

IMDb ID: nm0595086

Known for: Directing

Born: March 3, 1919

Died: April 1, 1999

Age: 80

Place of birth: Tokyo

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1947 - 1967

Years active: 21

Average TMDB rating: 6.57

Wikidata: Q5964666

Also known as

持永只仁 • 方明 • Тадахито Мотинага • Tad Mochinaga

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Director (4)Cinematography (2)Animation Supervisor (1)

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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.

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