Mitsuyo Seo(1911-2010)
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Animation Department
Former assistant of reputed Kenzô Masaoka, Seo directed several short
animation films of the "Monkey Sankichi" series for Masaoka Productions
from 1933 till 1935, when he became independent and decided to focus on
production tasks for the "Norakuro" talkie short films. The "Monkey
Sankichi" war films pleased the Japanese government so much that during
the Sino-Japanese war, in 1943 the Imperial Navy Department of Japan
produced the first medium-length film of the nation, "Momotaro's Sea
Eagles", followed by "Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors" (1945), the first
full-length animation film in Japan, both directed by Seo.