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Tadahito Mochinaga
Tokyo
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' "Animag…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1967
Mad Monster Party?
Movie Cinematography
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1965
Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
Movie Animation Supervisor
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1959
Ou-sama ni Natta Kitsune
Movie Director
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1958
Penguin Bouya Lulu to Kiki
Movie Director
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1958
Bunbuku Chagama
Movie Director
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1957
Fushigi na Taiko
Movie Director
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1957
The Stolen Lump
Movie Director
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1957
Little Black Sambo and his Twin Brother
Movie Director
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1956
Uriko-hime to Amanojaku
Movie Director
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1956
Go-hiki no Kozaru-tachi
Movie Director
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1956
Little Black Sambo versus the Tiger
Movie Director
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1952
Kitty Goes Fishing
Movie Director
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1951
Little Iron Pillar the Boy
Movie Director
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1950
Thank You, Kitty
Movie Director
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1948
Capturing the Turtle in the Jar
Movie Director
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1947
The Dream to Be an Emperor
Movie Cinematography
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1944
Fuku-chan's Submarine
Movie Director of Photography
