Seitaro Kitayama
Directing
March 3, 1888
Died: February 13, 1945
Wakayama, Japan
Biography
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.