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Tadao Takashima (高島忠夫, Takashima Tadao) (27 July 1930 – 26 June 2019) [2] was a Japanese actor and jazz musician. [3] He appeared in more than 100 films, [4] including the Toho productions King Kong vs. Godzilla, Atragon, and Frankenstein vs. Baragon.
東宝芸能 最終所属。 兵庫県 神戸市 東灘区 御影 出身。 本名は 髙嶋 忠夫 （読み同じ）。 血液型は O型。 4人姉妹弟の長男。 弟は音楽プロデューサーの 高嶋弘之。 来歴. 出生から学生時代まで. 兵庫県 [4] 武庫郡 御影町 （現在の 神戸市 [1] 東灘区 御影）で、姉妹弟のいる4人姉弟の長男として出生。 祖父は大地主で不動産収入があり、そのため父は琵琶師匠を自称していたが弟子もおらず、生涯定職につくことのない 有閑階級 の家庭であった [7]。 成績は優秀で 神戸一中 に進学。 水泳部に所属した。 同じクラスに作家の 小松左京 と 國弘正雄 がいた [8]。 小松とは、一緒にバンドを組んでいたこともある仲 [9]。
Tadao Takashima (高島忠夫, Takashima Tadao) (27 July 1930 – 26 June 2019) [2] was a Japanese actor and jazz musician. [3] He appeared in more than 100 films, [4] including the Toho productions King Kong vs. Godzilla, Atragon, and Frankenstein vs. Baragon. He also performed in stage musicals such as My Fair Lady and appeared in several ...
Tadao Takashima. Tadao Takashima (高島忠夫 Takashima Tadao?) (Muko District (Prefectura de Hyogo), 27 de julio de 1930 – Tokio, 26 de junio de 2019) fue un actor japonés y músico de jazz. 1 2 3 Apareció en más de cien películas, incluyendo King Kong vs. Godzilla, 4 Atragon, y Frankenstein vs. Baragon.
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The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II captain has created the greatest warshipever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense. While on a magazine photo shoot one night, photographers Susumu and Yoshito witness a car drive ...
Yōko Fujiyama as Makoto JingujiWriting
Atragon is loosely based on The Undersea Warship: A Fantastic Tale of Island Adventure (1899) by Shunrō Oshikawa and The Undersea Kingdom (1954-1955) by Shigeru Komatsuzaki. Komatsuzaki also served as an uncredited designer for the film, as he had with The Mysterians and Battle in Outer Space. Shinichi Sekizawa submitted his first draft on August 10, 1963, following revisions and storyboards by Komatsuzaki. Sekizawa thought up the character of Jinguji after reading about the Brazilian-Japanes...
Filming
Shinichi Sekizawa originally wrote the character of Jinguji for Toshiro Mifune. However, no one approached the actor prior and by the time casting was underway Mifune was already tied up in rehearsals for what would be a 18 month shoot for Red Beard(1965). Ishiro Honda had no idea whom to cast as the Empress of Mu but met Tetsuko Kobayashi by chance, who was working on a TV show in Toho's lot. Honda found her to be "hard working and very energetic." Kobayashi also applied the Empress' makeup...
Special effects
Five models of the Gotengo were built for the film with steel hulls for supporting their internal mechanisms. All at various scales, the largest was 4.5 meters (15 feet long), manufactured by an actual ship-building company for the price of 1,500,000 yen. This version was fully operational with wings, fins, gun turrets, the bridge, and the drill all movable by remote radio control devices built into the hull. This model was large enough for a technician to lie inside the hull and manually ope...
Atragonwas released in Japan on December 22, 1963. It became the 13th highest grossing domestic film of the year, grossing ¥175 million. Atragon became a popular feature on TV and at film festivals. In fact, it was so popular that it was re-released in 1968 as the support feature for Honda's Destroy All Monsters. It was also the 1964 Japanese entry...
Manda later appeared in the 1968 Godzilla film Destroy All Monsters. Manda and the Gotengo, the original and an updated version, were featured in Godzilla: Final Wars.
Bibliography
1. Galbraith IV, Stuart (1998). Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo: The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films. Feral House. ISBN 0922915474. 2. Godziszewski, Ed (1995). "Atragon: A Toho Classic Revisited". G-Fan #21: 18–33. 3. Kalat, David (2010). A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series (2nd ed.). McFarland. ISBN 9780786447497. 4. Parish, James Robert; Pitts, Michael R. (1977). The Great Science Fiction Pictures. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1029-8. 5. Ra...
Tadao Takashima was born on 27 July 1930 in Kobe, Japan. He was an actor, known for King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and Son of Godzilla (1967). He was married to Hanayo Sumi. He died on 26 June 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.
Jun 27, 2019 · It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of beloved Toho actor, Tadao Takashima-san. His family announced his passing to Japanese news outlets on the 26th of June. Takashima-san was eighty-eight years old, and will long be remembered by tokusatsu fans for his stellar performances in classics like King Kong vs. Godzilla,…
