IshirÅ Honda
Ishiro Honda (Japanese本 多 猪 四郎Honda Ishiro, born May 7, 1911 in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, † 28 February 1993 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese film director ( aka: Inoshiro Honda, Honda Inoshiro, Ishiro Honda).
After studying art Honda worked since 1933 at the Studio PCL, the Toho later as an assistant director and documentary filmmaker. His career was repeatedly interrupted by long periods of military service, one year Honda was in Chinese captivity. After the war he returned to Toho and assisted, among others, Akira Kurosawa in his 1949 turned a stray dog . With Kurosawa Honda established a lifelong friendship.
1951 Honda turned his first feature film. When the war movies Taiheiyo no Washi (1953) and Saraba Rabauru (1954 ), he works for the first time together with the trick specialists Tsuburaya Eiji, with whom he later realized a myriad of monsters and science fiction films. The 1954 released Godzilla became a worldwide success and a classic. Together with the 1956 turned from him color film The flying monsters from Godzilla Osaka marked the beginning of the Japanese monster movie, which celebrated until the 1970s great successes. In the 1970s, Honda withdrew from the film business.
Since 1980, he worked again with Kurosawa and participated in all the films Kurosawa as a consultant, assistant director or screenwriter with. In Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, he directed even individual episodes on their own responsibility.