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1968 In Anime
The events of 1968 in anime. Releases See also *1968 in animation Births * February 2 - Michael Arias, film director, producer, visual effects artist External links Japanese animated works of the year listed in the IMDb 1968 in animation, Anime 1968 in Japan, Anime Years in anime {{year-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dokachin The Primitive Boy
is an anime created by Tatsunoko Productions and often shortened to , is a Japanese animation company. The studio's name has a double meaning in Japanese: "Tatsu's child" (Tatsu is a nickname for Tatsuo) and "sea dragon", the inspiration for its seahorse logo. Tatsunoko's headquarters are i .... A prehistoric boy, his family and a chunk of land from the past, were accidentally brought to the present time by a scientist's time-travel experiments. References External links * 1968 anime television series debuts Comedy anime and manga Fuji TV original programming Science fiction anime and manga Tatsunoko Production Japanese time travel television series Fictional prehistoric characters {{anime-television-series-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Arias
Michael Arias (born 1968) is an American-born filmmaker active primarily in Japan. Though Arias has worked variously as visual effects artist, animation software developer, and producer, he is best known for his directorial debut, the anime feature ''Tekkonkinkreet'', which established him as the first non-Japanese director of a major anime film. Early life Michael Arias was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, Ron Arias (born 1941) is a former senior writer and correspondent for ''People magazine'' and a highly regarded Chicano writer.. Michael Arias' mother, Dr. Joan Arias, was a professor of Spanish and IBM Software Sales Specialist. When still a young boy, Arias often watched movies in the theater with his parents and borrowed 16mm prints from a local public library for screening at home; it was at this stage in his life that he developed his passion for cinema. Arias graduated from the Webb School of California at the age of 16. He then attended Wesleyan Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 In Animation
Events in 1968 in animation. Events February * February 12: The first episode of '' The Herbs'' airs. April * April 10: 40th Academy Awards: '' The Box'' by Fred Wolf wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. * April 29: The first episode of ''Les Shadoks'' airs. July * July 17: George Dunning's animated feature based on The Beatles, '' Yellow Submarine'', is first released. The innovative designs are done by Heinz Edelmann. September * September 14: ** The first episode of Hanna-Barbera's ''Wacky Races'' airs. It marks the debut of Penelope Pitstop and villainous characters Dick Dastardly and Muttley the dog. ** The first episode of '' The Batman/Superman Hour'' airs. ** The first episode of '' The Archie Show'' airs. * September 29: The first episode of '' Joe 90'' airs. October * October 31: Bruno Bozzetto's '' VIP, mio fratello superuomo'' premieres. December * December 6: Per Åhlin and Tage Danielsson's '' Out of an Old Man's Head'' premieres which mixes li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadanari Okamoto
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". Career and legacy 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. His work is also the subject a two-hour-long documentary ''The Magic Ballet'', released in 1990, 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 , which came twenty-eighth. After working at MOM Productions, known for its stop motion work for Rankin/Bass, he founded his own production company, Ech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kihachirō Kawamoto
was a Japanese puppet designer and maker, independent film director, screenwriter and animator and president of the Japan Animation Association from 1989, succeeding founder Osamu Tezuka, until his own death. He is best-remembered in Japan as designer of the puppets for the long-running NHK live action television series of the ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'' in the early 1980s and ''The Tale of the Heike'' in the 1990s but better-known internationally for his own animated short films, the majority of which are model animation but which also include the cutout animation ''Tabi'' and ''Shijin no Shōgai'' and mixed media, French-language ''Farce anthropo-cynique''. Since beginning his career in his early twenties as a production design assistant under So Matsuyama in the art department of Toho in 1946, he met Tadasu Iizawa and left the film studio in 1950 to collaborate with him on illustrating children's literature with photographs of dolls in dioramas, many of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōji Kuri
is a Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker. An influential figure in Japanese independent animation, he was the unofficial leader and most prolific of the collective who kick-started the renaissance of modern-styled, independently made, adult-aimed animation in early 1960s Japan. He is known internationally for the very black comedy of his films, with the typically naïve style of his cartooning often belying the surreal, obscene and disturbing situations they depict (though he has worked in a variety of styles and mediums, including pixilation); this made them a favourite among the fervently counter-cultural audiences, which included such filmmakers as René Laloux, of the first few years of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and in a 1967 publication he was considered to be "the most significant" and "the only Japanese animator whose work is known in the West" (which is to disregard the Tōei Animation features and ''Astro Boy'' series that were first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilot Film
is a Japanese animated short film directed by Masaaki Ōsumi, which was created around 1969. It is the first animated adaptation of the '' Lupin III'' manga series, created by Monkey Punch in 1967. The 12-minute film was created by Tokyo Movie and intended to generate interest and secure funding for a larger production. Around 1971 it was reworked as a television pilot with new voice actors and the series was picked up by Yomiuri Television, leading to ''Lupin the Third Part I''. Plot The pilot film, loosely based on the manga chapter ''Camera Tricks'', mainly serves as an introduction to the five major characters, as well as a retired detective named Kogoro Akechi. Each character is introduced to the viewer through several vignettes with narration. The overarching story sees Lupin III, Daisuke Jigen and Fujiko Mine in a mansion surrounded by police led by Inspector Zenigata and Akechi. Goemon Ishikawa offers to help the police by entering the house to kill Lupin. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Osamu Tezuka Anime
This is a list of Osamu Tezuka's notable anime work in alphabetical order. This list of anime includes all those listed on Tezuka's official site as well as others that are directly based on his work, but not listed on the site yet. The English translations of the names used are from the original names found on the official Osamu Tezuka website. See also * List of Osamu Tezuka manga References {{Lists of anime Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka (, born , ''Tezuka Osamu''; – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such ... Tezuka, Osamu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanoid Monster Bem
is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series, which first aired on Fuji TV between October 7, 1968 and March 31, 1969, on its 19:30–20:00 timeslot. The series was later remade into a second anime television series, which premiered in April 2006 in Japan on Animax, featuring a new cast, with a total of 26 episodes also produced. A live-action television drama adaptation premiered on NTV on October 22, 2011. A film was released on December 15, 2012. For the series' 50th anniversary, a third anime television series adaptation titled ''BEM'' was confirmed to be in production. The third series aired from July 14 to October 13, 2019. A new film titled '' BEM: Become Human'', was released on October 2, 2020. It streamed on Funimation's website on October 29, 2020. A spin-off live-action film ''Yokai Ningen Bela'' was released on September 11, 2020. Plot The plot of the series revolves around three yokai (supernatural creatures), Bem, Bela and Belo, who arrive at a la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
