Tadanari Okamoto

Tadanari Okamoto

Birth : 1932-01-11, Toyonaka, Japan

Death : 1990-02-16

History

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.

Profile

Tadanari Okamoto

Movies

Sozai Kara Image no Teichaku Made
Director
Behind the scenes of "Are wa Dare?"
Sozai Kara Image no Teichaku Made
Behind the scenes of "Are wa Dare?"
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Director
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?
Metropolitan Museum
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Koro wa Yane no Ue
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
A Donkey Got a Bit Sulky
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
People Come and Go
Director
A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.
The Magic Ballad
Director
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 he wants, for she has no use for anything anymore. Okon is delighted and in order to return the favour (the act of ongaeshi), Okon performs a magic jyōruri (a ballad with shamisen accompaniment) that heals Itako so that she is fit enough to walk again. Everyone is surprised by Itako's sudden recovery. She then hears of a hunter who has been badly injured and is near death. Itako hides Okon in the back of her shirt and has the fox sing the song while she plays shamisen in order to heal the man. This act of kindness is repeated for others until Itako's good fortune leads some to be suspicious of her.
White Elephant
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Old Frypan
Director
An old frying pan accidentally gets tossed out and ends up encountering many animals in his journey.
Wasurerareta Ningyou
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Be Quiet Please!
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Beautiful Name
Director
A special performance for Laforet, the large department store/museum in Harajuku. vk.com/video184256195_456239067
The Soba Flower of Mt. Oni
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Yuki no Hi no Tayori
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Panache the Squirrel
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Towards the Rainbow
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Symphonic Variations
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
From Cherry Blossoms with Love
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
The Strong Bridge
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Who's That?
Director
A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.
Urameshi Denwa
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Onaka no Ookina Ouji-sama
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
The Water Seed
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Five Small Stories
Director
A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.
Tabi wa Michizure Yo wa Nasake
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Praise be to Small Ills
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Monkey and Crab
Director
Japanese independently-animated short.
The Tree of Courage
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Osamishi Tani no Wakare Uta
Director
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Chikotan
Director
A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.
December Song
Director
A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.
Home My Home
Director
A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.
The Flower and the Mole
Director
The Robot Moles is an adorable story about flowers, moles, dumb scientists and a little girl.
Ojiichan ga Kaizoku Datta Koro
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Ten Little Indians
Director
A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.
Welcome, Aliens
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
The Woodpecker Plan
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Mysterious Medicine
Animation
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.
Mysterious Medicine
Director
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.
Mirror
Director
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.