Akira Daikubara

After working as animator and background settings designer in various short films from 1950, he enters in the Nichido Company in the mid-50s, shortly before to become absorbed by Toei in 1956. Toei's ambitious plans for its animation studio were doing an long feature animation film every year. After the first of them, "The White Snake Enchantress" (1958), Daikuhara was promoted to co-director of the following movie, "Young Sasuke Sarutobi" (1959). This was his only film as director; in the films of the next almost 15 years in Toei Doga he worked as animator or animation director. His last film was "The Adventures of Kikansha Yaemon D51" (1974). After that he began to work as a free-lance in illustration and occasionally in some TV animation series, as "Jetter Mars" in 1977.