Tomoyuki Tanaka

Tomoyuki Tanaka (Japanese田中 友 幸, Tanaka Tomoyuki; born April 26, 1910 in Kashiwara, † 2 April 1997 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese producer who became known for his Godzilla movies.

Shortly after the completion of Kansai University in 1940, Tanaka joined the Toho Studios. After four years with the company he started making his own films. In his 60 - year career at Toho Tanaka produced more than 200 films. Besides Ishiro Honda, Shigeru Kayama and Eiji Tsuburaya, he is considered one of the creators of Godzilla. This Tanaka tied to the Japanese fear of terrorism after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was trying to illustrate.

The first Godzilla movie, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! , Was published in 1954 (in the U.S. 1956). Until 2004, it was followed by a series of 28 other Godzilla movies. Besides produced Tanaka - usually together with the Godzilla Trio - nor the science fiction thriller The Mysterians (1957) and Matango (1963 ); the latter also known as Matango, Fungus of Terror and Attack of the Mushroom People, 1979 in the category Worst Vegetable Movie of All Time ( Who vegetables stupidest movie of all time ') awarded the Golden Turkey Award. With Akira Kurosawa, he shot the film Kagemusha - The Shadow Warrior (1980 ), for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1981 and the Palme d'Or (1980).

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Producer