Tadahito Mochinaga

Directing·Mar 3, 1919·Tokyo

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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.

Film	Credit
OOu-sama ni Natta Kitsune1959 · Director	Director
PPenguin Bouya Lulu to Kiki1958 · Director	Director
BBunbuku Chagama1958 · Director	Director
FFushigi na Taiko1957 · Director	Director
TThe Stolen Lump1957 · Director	Director
LLittle Black Sambo and his Twin Brother1957 · Director	Director
UUriko-hime to Amanojaku1956 · Director	Director
GGo-hiki no Kozaru-tachi1956 · Director	Director
LLittle Black Sambo versus the Tiger1956 · Director	Director
Kitty Goes Fishing1952 · Director	Director
Little Iron Pillar the Boy1951 · Director	Director
Thank You, Kitty1950 · Director	Director
Capturing the Turtle in the Jar1948 · Director	Director
FFuku-chan's Submarine1944 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography