Tadao Nagahama
 Tadao Nagahama (長浜 忠夫 Nagahama Tadao) (September 26 1936 – January 14 1980) was a director of both puppet shows and animation. He is best known as the director of Sunrise and Toei Company's Robot Romance Trilogy which added human drama to the Super Robot Genre.Nagahama also directed several hit anime series that are still well known among Japanese viewers.