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

• 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
• Tarou no Banpei Senkoutei no Maki

References