Seitarō Kitayama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Seitarō Kitayama

Japanese anime director

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1888

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1945

Profession: animator, painter, film director, film producer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Seitaro Kitayama (?? ???, Kitayama Seitaro, 1888 – February 2, 1945) 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 Yoshiro Irie, a researcher at Japan's National Film Center.