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In 1962, Honda returned to directing Godzilla films beginning with King Kong vs. Godzilla. Honda would go on to direct five additional Godzilla films during the 1960s: Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965), Destroy All Monsters (1968), and All Monsters Attack (1969), the latter ...
Oct 24, 2019 · D irector Ishiro Honda gathered his crew and gave them an ultimatum. He was about to put his career at risk, and he would only work with those who approached his current project—a movie about a radiation-spewing prehistoric reptile that destroys Tokyo—with the utmost seriousness, as he himself did.
Ishirô Honda. Director: Godzilla. Influential Japanese film director born May 7th, 1911, often credited as being the father of Godzilla. His name is a combination of "I" (or Ino), meaning "boar", and "shirô," meaning fourth son in the family.
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Ishiro Honda is probably best known for the many science fiction films which he directed for Toho, including eight entries in the Godzilla series. He directed the original Godzilla along with King Kong vs. Godzilla, Mothra vs. Godzilla, All Monsters Attack and many others throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He also directed other tokusatsu films for To...
Director
1. Godzilla(1954) 2. Half Human(1955) 3. Rodan(1956) 4. The Mysterians(1957) 5. The H-Man(1958) 6. Varan(1958) 7. Sampo(1959) [1962 Japanese dub] 8. Battle in Outer Space(1959) 9. The Human Vapor(1960) 10. Mothra(1961) 11. Gorath(1962) 12. King Kong vs. Godzilla(1962) 13. Matango(1963) 14. Atragon(1963) 15. Mothra vs. Godzilla(1964) 16. Dogora(1964) 17. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster(1964) 18. Frankenstein vs. Baragon(1965) 19. Invasion of Astro-Monster(1965) 20. The War of the Gargantuas...
Screenwriter
1. Godzilla (1954) [with Takeo Murata] 2. The War of the Gargantuas (1966) [with Kaoru Mabuchi] 3. Destroy All Monsters(1968) [with Kaoru Mabuchi]
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1. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1970) [Toho Champion Festivalreissue; uncredited] 2. Mothra vs. Godzilla(1970) [Toho Champion Festival reissue; uncredited] 3. The Great Monster War: King Ghidorah vs. Godzilla(1971) [uncredited] 4. Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: The Greatest Battle on Earth(1971) [uncredited] 5. Ebirah, Horror of the Deep(1972) [Toho Champion Festival reissue; uncredited] 6. Godzilla: The Great Blitz Operation(1972) [uncredited] 7. Son of Godzilla(1973) [Toho Champion Festival re...
Honda directing Eagle of the PacificHonda (right) with Akihiko Hirata(left)Honda with Eiji TsuburayaHonda with a GodzillapuppetIshiro Honda visited the set of several Heisei Godzilla films before his death in 1993, and despite rumors that he was slated to direct Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, Honda expressed no interest in...Honda stated in an interview conducted only months before his death that his favorite film he worked on was The Mysterians.Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, a character in Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, is named after Honda. In the June 2012 revision of the Godzillascript, he was called "Doctor Honda."A fictionalized version of Honda appears in the fifth episode of the fourth season of the TV series DC's Legends of Tomorrow, played by Eijiro Ozaki.This is a list of references for Ishiro Honda. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this:
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In a 1990 Directors Guild of Japan interview with Honda Ishiro—conducted by Banno Yoshimitsu, director of 1971's Godzilla vs. Hedorah —the original Godzilla director, who died in 1993,...
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Godzilla (Japanese: ゴジラ, Hepburn: Gojira) is a 1954 Japanese epic kaiju film directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd., it is the first film in the Godzilla franchise.
Oct 3, 2017 · Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa features close analysis of Honda's films (including, for the first time, his rarely seen dramas, comedies, and war films) and draws on previously untapped documents and interviews to explore how creative, economic, and industrial factors impacted his career.
