Portal:Animation/Anniversaries/March/March 22

Films released

• 1935 – The Golden Touch (United States)
• 1947 – A Hare Grows in Manhattan (United States)
• 2002 – Armitage: Dual-Matrix (Japan)
• 2005 – Otogi Zoshi Special Chapter: Kimon (Japan, TV film, NTV)
• 2009 – Super Rhino (United States)
• 2013 – The Croods (DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Studios, United States)

Television series and specials

• 1987 – Hiatari Ryōkō!, a Japanese anime series begins airing on Fuji TV
• 1987 – Touch, a Japanese anime series finishes airing on Fuji TV
• 1988 – Akakage, a Japanese anime series finishes airing on NTV
• 1991 – Sunset on Third Street, a Japanese anime series finishes airing on TBS
• 1991 – Tasuke, the Samurai Cop, a Japanese anime series finishes airing on TV Tokyo
• 2002 – ChalkZone, an American animated television series begins airing on Nickelodeon

Births

• 1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor (pictured)

Deaths

• 1994 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker (b. 1899)
• 2001 – William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, television director, television producer, and cartoon artist (b. 1910)