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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.
As director
Sozai Kara Image no Teichaku Made
メトロポリタン美術館（メトロポリタンミュージアム）
The Restaurant of Many Orders
コロは屋根のうえ
A Donkey Got a Bit Sulky
The Magic Ballad
People Come and Go
Old Frypan
White Elephant
The Forgotten Doll
Be Quiet Please!
The Soba Flower of Mt. Oni
ビューティフル・ネーム
雪の日のたより
Panache the Squirrel
Towards the Rainbow
The Strong Bridge
Who's That?
シンフォニック・バリエーション
From Cherry Blossoms with Love
The Water Seed
オナカの大きな王子さま
Urameshi Denwa
Five Small Stories
Praise be to Small Ills
Tabi wa Michizure Yo wa Nasake
Monkey and Crab
The Tree of Courage
December Song
Chikotan