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Director, screenwriter, producer. Yoshimitsu Banno (坂野 義光, Banno Yoshimitsu, March 30, 1931 – May 7, 2017) [2] [3] was a Japanese film director, best known for the cult-classic Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971), which he directed and co-wrote. Banno was a special guest at G-Fest XII in 2005.
Yoshimitsu Banno. Producer: Godzilla. Yoshimitsu Banno studied at Toho under such directors as Hiromichi Horikawa, Mikio Naruse, Kengo Furusawa and Seiji Maruyama. By 1970 Toho was ready to promote him to full director, and the resulting project, Birth of the Japanese Islands (1970) played at Osaka's Expo 70, attracting record-breaking crowds.
Nov 3, 2023 · Yoshimitsu Banno (坂野 義光, Banno Yoshimitsu) was a Japanese director, writer, and producer best known for Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971), which he directed and co-wrote. Banno was a special guest at G-Fest XII in 2005 and an executive producer for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla (2014).
May 28, 2017 · The recent passing of Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) director Yoshimitsu Banno and the expected refocus on his limited involvement in Toho’s iconic monster movie franchise brought to mind two things regarding this series and the way fans react to it. The first concerns the making-of stories surrounding these movies and how they are, so very ...
May 12, 2017 · May 12, 2017 1:02am. Screengrab. Japanese director Yoshimitsu Banno, who made his debut with Godzilla vs. Hedorah in 1971, died Sunday of a subarachnoid hemorrhage at his home in Kawasaki,...
Jun 14, 2008 · “The one and only time!” laughs Yoshimitsu Banno, director of 1971’s “Gojira tai Hedorah” (Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster), of the flying scene which would effectively prohibit him from directing any future features. The scene unfolds during the film’s final battle sequence.
Yoshimitsu Banno was a Japanese director, writer, and producer best known for his film, Godzilla vs. Hedorah. Banno joined Toho in 1955, studying under directors such as Mikio Naruse, Kengo Furusawa and Seiji Maruyama. He would begin his career as an assistant director under Akira Kurosawa.
