was an early Japanese animation director whose work includes the first examples of commercial production of

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 Japane ...

. Kitayama was referred to as one of the fathers of anime by Yoshirō Irie, a researcher at Japan's National Film Center.

Works

*'' Battle of a Monkey and a Crab'' (1917) *''Yume no jidōsha'' (1917) *''Neko to nezumi'' (1917) *''Itazura posuto'' (1917) *''Hanasaka-jiji'' (1917) *''Chokin no susume'' (1917) *''(Otogibanashi–) Bunbuku chagama'' (1917) *''Shitakire suzume'' (1917) *''Kachikachiyama'' (1917) *''Chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru'' (1917) *'' Urashima Tarō'' (1918) *'' Momotarō'' *''

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References

1945 deaths Anime directors 1888 births Articles containing video clips {{japan-bio-stub