Taiji Yabushita (藪下泰司)

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Full Name:

Taiji Yabushita

Occupation / Title:

Director, Educator, Screenwriter, Writer

Date of birth:

01/02/1903

Date of death:

15/06/1986

Birthplace:

Osaka, Japan

Associated studios:

Toei Animation Studio

Biography

Taiji Serushita graduated from Tokyo School of Fine Arts and studied photography. He is a pioneer of Japanese animation. After graduation, he joined the filming department of Matsuktake Co. Ltd. in 1925. Later, he worked in the film production equipment of the Provincial Bureau of Social Education of the Ministry of Education in 1927. He founded his own animation company in 1956, Dongying Animation Co. Ltd.

He joined Toei Animation in 1956 and was then involved in directing Legend of the White Snake (1958). Later, Taiji worked on several more animations, including the Sarutobi Sasuke, the Young Ninja (少年猿飛佐助) (1959), and Alakazam, Little Hercules (西遊記) (1960) before he left the studio in 1968.

In 1970 he started to teach Photography at Tokyo Deanna Institute and Tokyo Photo Professional School. And in 1975, Taiji established the Animation Research Society as the first society for animation study in Japan (Hu 81).

Career outline

Instructor at Tokyo Deanna Institute and Tokyo Photo Professional School

Filmography

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References:

Caluchanche.Taiji Yabushita. IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944763/bio.

Anonymous. 薮下泰司. Baidu. https://baike.baidu.com/item/薮下泰司/8757798

Hu, Tze-yue G., and Masao Yokota, editors. Japanese Animation : East Asian Perspectives. University Press of Mississippi, 2013.