This is a list of anime by release date which covers Japanese animated productions that were made between 1939–1945.
Notable births
* June 26, 1940 -
Tetsu Dezaki
is an anime director, producer, and screenwriter. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan North High School, he attended Hosei University. His younger brother was the late anime director Osamu Dezaki.
Brief history
Dezaki was born in Tokyo, J ...
, director, producer, screenwriter.
* January 5, 1941 -
Hayao Miyazaki, director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, manga artist.
* November 18, 1943 -
Osamu Dezaki (1943 – 2011), film director, screenwriter.
* April 21, 1944 -
Toyoo Ashida (1944 – 2011), director, character designer, animator, animation director, screenwriter.
Notable deaths
*February 2, 1945 -
Seitarō Kitayama
was an early Japanese animation director whose work includes the first examples of commercial production of anime. Kitayama was referred to as one of the fathers of anime by Yoshirō Irie, a researcher at Japan's National Film Center.
Works
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(b. 1888)
See also
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List of anime by release date (pre-1939)
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List of anime by release date (1946–1959)
This is a list of anime by release date which covers Japanese animated productions that were made between 1946 and 1959. After World War II, Japan was occupied by the allies which mainly consisted of the Americans. During the shift from the ...
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History of anime
The history of anime can be traced back to the start of the 20th century, with the earliest verifiable films dating from 1907.This article, by a German researcher, was first published on January 4, 2013 in ''The Japanese Journal of Animation S ...
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List of years in animation
Before 1910
* 1897 - '' The Captain and the Kids'' is created by Rudolph Dirks and debuted December 12, 1897.
* 1900 – J. Stuart Blackton and Thomas Edison create ''The Enchanted Drawing'', the first film to feature groundbreaking animated seq ...
References
External links
Japanese Animation Filmography Project
External links
Japanese animated works of the period listed in the
IMDb
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