# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tadahito-mochinaga
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:33:27.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tadahito-mochinaga"
name: "Tadahito Mochinaga"
slug: "tadahito-mochinaga"
description: "Tadahito \"Tad\" Mochinaga  was a pioneer Japanese stop-motion animator. Having done many stop motion films in Japan, he is best known as the animator for Rankin/Bass' \"Animagic\" productions at his MOM Production Studio in Tokyo throughout the 1960s. He did this work in association with American director Arthur Rankin, Jr. who wrote and designed the productions before sending them to Japan for animation."
tagline: "Japanese animator (1919–1999)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jXQCQo4hm4yJb25e8xP5aFdcqV4.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1919-03-03"
deathDate: "1999-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             1.008403361344538
  historical:           6.151693333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595086/"
    handle:    "nm0595086"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8C%81%E6%B0%B8%E5%8F%AA%E4%BB%81"
    title: "持永只仁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تاداهيتو موكيناجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadahito_Mochinaga"
    title: "Tadahito Mochinaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadahito_Mochinaga"
    title: "Tadahito Mochinaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%88%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%DA%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "تاداهیتو موچیناگا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "持永只仁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5964666"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1593634"
    title: "Tadahito Mochinaga"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump