Masanori Hata
was a Japanese zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker. A popular essayist under the pen name Mutsugorō, he was awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize for his writing in 1977. He was perhaps best known in the West as the director and screenwriter of the 1986 film ''The Adventures of Milo and Otis''.Hata was born in Fukuoka Prefecture on 17 April 1935. He graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Tokyo University in 1958, and went on to complete a master's degree in 1959. Trained as a zoologist, he worked as a documentary filmmaker producing nature films. He moved to the eastern coast of Hokkaidō to establish the Mutsugorō Animal Kingdom nature preserve, where he and his family lived with over 300 wild and domestic animals. He is the author of over 100 books, including collections of his Mutsugorō essays on nature such as ''Warera dōbutsu mina kyōdai'' (All of Us Animals Are Brothers and Sisters, 1967) and ''Mutsogorō no hakubutsushi'' (Mutsugoro's Natural History, 1975).
Over four years, Hata and associate director Kon Ichikawa shot 400,000 feet of film at the Mutsugorō Animal Kingdom. The resulting film, about the adventures of an orange tabby cat and a fawn pug, was released by Toho in 1986 as ''Koneko Monogatari'' (子猫物語, A Kitten's Story) and was the highest-grossing film of the year in Japan, taking in about $36 million. It was shown that year at the Cannes Film Festival as ''The Adventures of Chatran''. For US distribution by Columbia Pictures, it was cut down from 90 to 76 minutes and narration in English by Dudley Moore was added. It was released in 1989 as ''The Adventures of Milo and Otis''.
Hata died on 5 April 2023, at the age of 87. Provided by Wikipedia
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1Mutsugorō no hakubutsushi ; Zoku Mutsugorō no hakubutsushi /ムツゴロウの博物志 ; 続ムツゴロウの博物志 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1977
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3Mutsugorō no dōbutsu kōdan. Zokuzoku Mutsugorō no hakubutsushi. /ムツゴロウ の 動物 巷談. 続続 ムツゴロウ の博物志 /by Hata, Masanori
Published 1977
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5Ikiru ; Gakkō sayonara yo ; Mutsugorō no yūbinbako /生きる ; 学校さよならよ ; ムツゴロウのゆうびん箱 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1979
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6Mutsugorō no dōbutsu kōdan ; Zoku Zoku Mutsugorō no hakubutsushi /ムツゴロウの動物巷談 ; 続々ムツゴロウの博物志 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1977
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8Mono iwanu sutātachi : kiroku eiga to dōbutsu to /もの 言わぬ スターたち : 記錄 映画 と 動物 と /by Hata, Masanori
Published 1970
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9Mutsugorō no aiba kōshinkyoku : Mutsugorō no zakkyo kazoku /ムツゴロウの愛馬行進曲 ; ムツゴロウの雑居家族 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1978
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11Mutsugorō no dōbutsu ōkoku ; Zoku Mutsugorō no dōbutsu ōkoku /ムツゴロウの動物王国 ; 続ムツゴロウの動物王国 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1978
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12Mutsugorō no hakubutsushi /ムツゴロウの博物志 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1975
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14Mutsugorō no jūi shugyō ; Mutsugorō no tameiki /ムツゴロウの獣医修業 ; ムツゴロウのため息 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1978
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15Burai no fune ; Mutsugorō no tamatebako /無頼の船 ; ムツゴロウの玉手箱 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1979
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16Mutsugorō no junjō shishū ; Mutsugorō no zasshoku nikki /ムツゴロウの純情詩集 ; ムツゴロウの雑食日記 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1978
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18Warera dōbutsu mina kyōdai ; Tennen kinenbutsu no dōbutsutachi /われら動物みな兄弟 ; 天然記念物の動物たち /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1978
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19Mutsugorō no seishunki ; Mutsugorō no kekkonki ; Mutsugorō no hōrōkiムツゴロウの青春記 ; ムツゴロウの結婚記 ; ムツゴロウの放浪記by Hata, Masanori
Published 1977
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20Mutsugorō no jikenbo ; Mutsugorō no kansōkyoku /ムツゴロウの事件簿 ; ムツゴロウの間奏曲 /by Hata, MasanoriOther Authors: “...Hata, Masanori...”
Published 1978
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