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Tadanari Okamoto
Toyonaka, Japan
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 win…
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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.
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1993
メトロポリタン美術館（メトロポリタンミュージアム）
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1991
The Restaurant of Many Orders
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1986
コロは屋根のうえ
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1983
A Donkey Got a Bit Sulky
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1982
The Magic Ballad
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1982
People Come and Go
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1981
White Elephant
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1981
Old Frypan
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1980
The Forgotten Doll
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1980
Be Quiet Please!
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1979
ビューティフル・ネーム
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1979
The Soba Flower of Mt. Oni
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1978
Panache the Squirrel
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1978
雪の日のたより
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1977
Towards the Rainbow
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1976
The Strong Bridge
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1976
From Cherry Blossoms with Love
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1976
シンフォニック・バリエーション
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1976
Who's That?
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1975
オナカの大きな王子さま
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1975
The Water Seed
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1975
Urameshi Denwa
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1974
Five Small Stories
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1973
Praise be to Small Ills
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1973
Tabi wa Michizure Yo wa Nasake
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1972
Monkey and Crab
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1972
The Tree of Courage
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1971
Chikotan
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1971
お淋し谷の別れ唄
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1971
December Song
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1970
The Flower and the Mole
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1970
Home My Home
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1968
おじいちゃんが海賊だった頃
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1968
Ten Little Indians
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1966
The Woodpecker Plan
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1966
Welcome, Aliens
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1965
Mysterious Medicine
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1960
Mirror
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