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Tomoyuki "Yūkō" Tanaka [4] ( Japanese: 田中 友幸 ともゆき, Hepburn: Tanaka Tomoyuki, April 26, 1910 – April 2, 1997) was a Japanese film producer. Widely regarded as the creator of the Godzilla franchise, he produced most of the installments in the series, beginning in 1954 with Godzilla and ending in 1995 with Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.
- 1940–1997
- Film producer
Feb 23, 2024 · Tomoyuki Tanaka (田中 友幸 ともゆき Tanaka Tomoyuki), nicknamed Yuko Tanaka (田中 友幸 ゆうこう Tanaka Yūkō), was a Japanese film producer most famous for creating Godzilla. He was born in Osaka, Japan on April 26, 1910, and died in Tokyo on April 2, 1997, at the age of 86 from cerebral infarction.
Apr 4, 1997 · Tomoyuki Tanaka, who frightened and fascinated generations of children with his series of films featuring an outsize, outdated creature named Godzilla, died on Wednesday at a hospital here....
Tomoyuki Tanaka (田中 友幸?, Tanaka Tomoyuki) was a Japanese film producer, most famous for creating the Godzilla movies alongside his associates. He was born in Osaka, Japan on April 26, 1910, and died in Tokyo on April 2, 1997.
May 13, 2014 · Tomoyuki Tanaka, the producer of the "Godzilla" movie series and a former chairman of movie house Toho Co., seen in this April 1981 photo, died of a stroke Wednesday, April 2, 1997 at a Tokyo...
Jan 4, 1998 · Tomoyuki Tanaka said he was flying over the Bikini Islands, site of American nuclear-bomb testing, when the idea for Godzilla came to him. If this is true, Tanaka's vision...
In all Tanaka produced 22 Godzilla films, including every film in the original Showa and Heisei series. Tanaka provided the original screenplay treatments for the first two films in the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy; after his death in 1997, his image was used in Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998).
