Tadanari Okamoto
Tadanari Okamoto | |
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Born | Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan | January 11, 1932
Died | February 16, 1990 | (aged 58)
Occupation | Director of animated films |
Years active | 1965–1990 |
Tadanari Okamoto (
Career and legacy[edit]
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.[1] His work is also the subject a two-hour-long documentary The Magic Ballet, released in 1990,[2] and 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.[3]
After working at MOM Productions, known for its stop motion work for Rankin/Bass, he founded his own production company, Echo Incorporated, in 1964, and soon after made a trip to visit Czech animator and director Břetislav Pojar.[1] One of his last films, "Metropolitan Museum" (メトロポリタンミュージアム, Metoroporitanmyūjiamu, 1984), was commissioned and broadcast across the nation by NHK, the national public broadcasting organization of Japan, as one of their Minna no Uta interstitial programs.[4] He died during the production of The Restaurant of Many Orders (
Home media[edit]
A selection of Okamoto's films was released on Laserdisc on August 24, 1986 and re-released on September 25, 1994.[1] A more complete collection was released across three DVD-Video discs on June 24, 2009:[7] these were available separately or as a box set, exclusive to which there was a fourth disc of additional materials such as university and advertising work.[8]
Filmography[edit]
- Fushigi na Kusuri (ふしぎなくすり, The Mysterious Medicine, 1965)
- Kitsutsuki Keikaku (キツツキ
計画 , The Woodpecker Plan, 1966) - Hana to Mogura (
花 ともぐら, 1970) - 12-gatsu no uta (12月のうた, December Song, 1971)
- Chikotan (チコタン, 1971)
- Nanmu Ichibyō Sokusai (
南無 一 病 息災 , 1973) - Mizu no Tane (
水 のたね, 1975) - Frypan Jiisan (ふらいぱんじいさん, 1981)
- Metropolitan Museum (メトロポリタンミュージアム, 1984)
- Chūmon no Ōi Ryōriten (
注文 の多 い料理 店 , The Restaurant of Many Orders, 1993), based on Kenji Miyazawa
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Ettinger, Benjamin (2005-01-09). "Tadanari Okamoto: The heart of animation". AniPages Daily. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ "Tadanari Okamoto: The Magic Ballet". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ Belianski, Eugene. "150 best animations of all time (from 2003 Laputa Festival)". Animatsiya in English. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ "Anime Thater Selection: Tadanari Okamoto screening". Tokyo Art Beat. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ MacInnes, Daniel Thomas (2007-09-17). "Reiko Okuyama has passed away". Conversations on Ghibli. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ "What is Japan Prize?". NHK Japan Prize. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ "Tadanari Okamoto DVD box on June 24". AniPages Daily. 2009-06-15. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ^ "Tadanari Okamoto Zensakuhin Shu DVD box". CDJapan. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
External links[edit]
- Tadanari Okamoto at Anido Web Page
- Tadanari Okamoto at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Tadanari Okamoto at IMDb