Tadanari Okamoto
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.
The Restaurant of Many Orders (1993)
A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa in which two young British hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant. Are the hunters about to discover how it feels to be hunted? (more)
A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa in which two young British hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant. Are the hunters about to discover how it feels to be hunted? (more)
Mysterious Medicine (1965)
Two unfettered robbers try to steal a new, mysterious medicine from a laboratory; they butt heads with a needy crow and the head professor's apprentice. (more)
Two unfettered robbers try to steal a new, mysterious medicine from a laboratory; they butt heads with a needy crow and the head professor's apprentice. (more)
White Elephant (1981)
People Come and Go (1982)
The Magic Ballad (1982)
The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying bedridden, as she has for a long time. Okon enters her home and Itako tells the fox that he is welcome to take anything that ... (more)
The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying bedridden, as she has for a long time. Okon enters her home and Itako tells the fox that he is welcome to take anything that ... (more)
A Donkey Got a Bit Sulky (1983)
Koro wa Yane no Ue (1986)
Metropolitan Museum (1993)
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto (more)
The Woodpecker Plan (1966)
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto. (more)
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto. (more)
Ten Little Indians (1968)
Home My Home (1970)
The Flower and the Mole (1970)
The Robot Moles is an adorable story about flowers, moles, dumb scientists and a little girl. (more)
The Robot Moles is an adorable story about flowers, moles, dumb scientists and a little girl. (more)
December Song (1971)
Osamishi Tani no Wakare Uta (1971)
The Tree of Courage (1972)
Monkey and Crab (1972)