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Motoyoshi Oda (小田 基義, Oda Motoyoshi, 21 July 1909 – 21 October 1973) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed over 50 films in his career.
Motoyoshi Oda. Director: Gigantis, the Fire Monster. An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios).
- Motoyoshi Oda
- October 21, 1973
- July 21, 1910
An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios).
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Over his entire career, Motoyoshi Oda directed fifty movies, not to mention his work as assistant director and second-unit direction on Ishiro Honda's Eagle of the Pacific (1953). No credits are available for Oda during the last 15 years of his life, after 1958.
While the acting may not the greatest, Motoyoshi Oda improves and expands on many features of its predecessor, further highlighting the notion of Godzilla and its creation being a metaphor for the uncontrollable repercussions of nuclear power.
Oda helmed at least two sci-fi films in his career: The Invisible Man (1954, with cinematography by Eiji Tsuburaya), and Godzilla Raids Again (1955), the second film in the Godzilla series. Director (2)
