Yabushita Taiji was born in Japan in 1903. As an animation director and planner, he led the production of early feature-length animations at Toei Animation. He directed The White Snake Enchantress (1958,) Japan′s first full-length color animated feature film, and subsequently laid the foundation for Japanese theatrical animation production by creating works such as The Adventure of the Little Samurai (1959), The Enchanted Monkey (1960), and Adventure of Sindbad (1962).
