Tadanari Okamoto

Biography

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

1. The Restaurant of Many Orders (1991) — Director
2. おじいちゃんが海賊だった頃 (1968) — Director
3. The Magic Ballad (1982) — Director
4. Monkey and Crab (1972) — Director
5. Mysterious Medicine (1965) — Director
6. The Strong Bridge (1976) — Director
7. Old Frypan (1981) — Director
8. The Flower and the Mole (1970) — Director
9. Ten Little Indians (1968) — Director
10. メトロポリタン美術館（メトロポリタンミュージアム） (1993) — Director
11. December Song (1971) — Director
12. People Come and Go (1982) — Director
13. The Woodpecker Plan (1966) — Director
14. Praise be to Small Ills (1973) — Director
15. Towards the Rainbow (1977) — Director
16. Who's That? (1976) — Director
17. Five Small Stories (1974) — Director
18. Chikotan (1971) — Director
19. Home My Home (1970) — Director
20. Mirror (1960) — Director
21. コロは屋根のうえ (1986) — Director
22. The Water Seed (1975) — Director
23. The Tree of Courage (1972) — Director
24. オナカの大きな王子さま (1975) — Director
25. The Soba Flower of Mt. Oni (1979) — Director
26. お淋し谷の別れ唄 (1971) — Director
27. Be Quiet Please! (1980) — Director
28. Panache the Squirrel (1978) — Director
29. A Donkey Got a Bit Sulky (1983) — Director
30. From Cherry Blossoms with Love (1976) — Director
31. White Elephant (1981) — Director
32. シンフォニック・バリエーション (1976) — Director
33. Tabi wa Michizure Yo wa Nasake (1973) — Director
34. Urameshi Denwa (1975) — Director
35. The Forgotten Doll (1980) — Director
36. Welcome, Aliens (1966) — Director
37. 雪の日のたより (1978) — Director
38. Sozai Kara Image no Teichaku Made (2009) — Director
39. ビューティフル・ネーム (1979) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Sozai Kara Image no Teichaku Made (2009)