Public Offender Registry
In 1921, Kitayama left Nikkatsu, the company he had been working for, to found the very first anime studio, Kitayama Eiga Seisakujo. Kouchi adopted his footsteps and based his personal animation studio, Sumikazu, in 1923. It’s difficult to make money with anime, and the Great Kanto Earthquake wiping out the Kitayama building so quickly after …
