Natto Wada's original name was Yumiko Mogi (born 13 September 1920 in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan); the couple both had failed marriages behind them.
Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O Studio, in their animation department.
Decades later, he told the American writer on Japanese film Donald Richie, "I'm still a cartoonist and I think that the greatest influence on my films (besides Chaplin, particularly The Gold Rush) is probably Disney." He moved to the feature film department as an assistant director when the company closed its animation department, working under directors including Yutaka Abe and Nobuo Aoyagi. In the early 1940s J.O Studio merged with P.C.L.
His first film was a puppet play short, A Girl at Dojo Temple (Musume Dojoji 1946), which was confiscated by the interim U.S.
She married Kon Ichikawa on 10 April 1948, and died on 18 February 1983 of breast cancer. ==1950–1965== It was after Ichikawa's marriage to Wada that the two began collaborating, first on Design of a Human Being (Ningen moyo) and Endless Passion (Hateshinaki jonetsu) in 1949.
She married Kon Ichikawa on 10 April 1948, and died on 18 February 1983 of breast cancer. ==1950–1965== It was after Ichikawa's marriage to Wada that the two began collaborating, first on Design of a Human Being (Ningen moyo) and Endless Passion (Hateshinaki jonetsu) in 1949.
The period 1950–1965 is often referred to as Ichikawa's Natto Wada period.
His film Odd Obsession (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. ==Early life and career== Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture as Giichi Ichikawa (市川儀一).
The Key, released in the United States as Odd Obsession, was entered in the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, and won the Jury Prize with Antonioni's L'Avventura. ==After 1965== After Tokyo Olympiad Wada retired from screenwriting, and it marked a significant change in Ichikawa's films from that point onward.
The Key, released in the United States as Odd Obsession, was entered in the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, and won the Jury Prize with Antonioni's L'Avventura. ==After 1965== After Tokyo Olympiad Wada retired from screenwriting, and it marked a significant change in Ichikawa's films from that point onward.
She married Kon Ichikawa on 10 April 1948, and died on 18 February 1983 of breast cancer. ==1950–1965== It was after Ichikawa's marriage to Wada that the two began collaborating, first on Design of a Human Being (Ningen moyo) and Endless Passion (Hateshinaki jonetsu) in 1949.
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