Background
Kuwahara was born in Tokyo on August 12, 1901, and his family moved to the United States in 1910, where he graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1921.
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After high school he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles until 1928.
Career
In 1929 Kuwahara moved to New York City to work as a commercial artist, but the stock market crash later that year forced him to return to Los Los Angeles In 1937 Kuwahara went to work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but later spent three years in the Heart Mountain internment camp during World World War World War II In 1945 Kuwahara and his family moved to Larchmont, New York where he wrote and drew a comic strip called Miki for five years before low circulation forced him to drop the strip. In 1950 Kuwahara returned to animation, signing on with Paul Terry"s Terrytoons studio, and stayed with the studio following Columbia Broadcasting System" purchase of the studio in 1955.
In 1959 Kuwahara wrote and directed the first of 14 Hashimoto-san theatrical shorts, for which he is probably best remembered today.
Production of these shorts continued until 1963, after which time they were incorporated into Columbia Broadcasting System" The Hector Heathcote Show. During the same period Kuwahara was also a director for the popular Deputy Dawg series.
Kuwahara"s final television series was 1965"s syndicated The Astronut Show. Kuwahara died in 1964.
