Tomoyuki Tanaka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Japanese film producer

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1910

Place of Birth: Kashiwara, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 02-Apr-1997

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film producer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Tomoyuki Tanaka

  • Tomoyuki Tanaka (?? ??, Tanaka Tomoyuki) was a Japanese film producer, most famous for creating the Godzilla franchise.
  • He was born in Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan on April 26, 1910, and died in Tokyo on April 2, 1997.
  • Tanaka was married to the actress Chieko Nakakita (1926 – 2005).
  • He died of a stroke at the age of 86.Soon after graduating from Kansai University in 1940, Tanaka joined Taisho Studios which merged with Toho Studios in 1941.
  • After four years with the company, he began producing his own films, and his first effort, Three Women of the North, was released in 1945.
  • In his 60-year career with Toho, Tanaka produced more than 200 films. He is best known as the creator, with storyteller Shigeru Kayama, director Ishiro Honda, writer Takeo Murata and special-effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, of Godzilla, the towering embodiment of post-World War II anxiety.
  • Tanaka created Godzilla in 1954 in an effort to illustrate the terror Japanese felt after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • In an interview in 1985 Tanaka summed up the symbolism of Godzilla: In those days, Japanese had a real horror of radiation, and that horror is what made Godzilla so huge.
  • From the beginning he has symbolized nature's revenge on mankind. The classic 1954 film Godzilla (1954; released in the U.S.
  • in 1956 as Godzilla, King of the Monsters!) would spawn a series of sequels, adding up to 28 films by 2004.
  • Tanaka produced every Toho monster movie up to his death in 1997.
  • He often worked with the other three members of the Godzilla team: Honda, Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube, to complete such works as The Mysterians (1957) and Matango (1963).
  • Tanaka produced six films directed by the acclaimed Akira Kurosawa.
  • Their film Kagemusha (1980) was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar and took the Palme d'Or at Cannes. The 1998 American reimagining of Godzilla was dedicated to his memory.

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