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Tomoyuki "Yūkō" Tanaka (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 ...
Tanaka Tomoyuki (born April 16, 1910, Ōsaka, Japan—died April 2, 1997, Tokyo) was a Japanese film producer. Tanaka was associated for nearly 60 years with Japan’s Toho Studios, for which he produced more than 200 films.
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Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910-1997) was a Japanese producer, writer and soundtrack artist who created the iconic monster Godzilla and oversaw many Toho sci-fi films. He also worked with director Akira Kurosawa on six films, including Yojimbo and High and Low.
- Producer, Writer, Soundtrack
- April 26, 1910
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- April 2, 1997
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· Tomoyuki Tanaka, who frightened and fascinated generations of children with his series of films featuring an outsize, outdated creature named Godzilla, died on Wednesday at a hospital here. He...
Apr 3, 1997 · Tomoyuki Tanaka, a prolific movie producer who shaped Japan's post-Hiroshima nightmare into a fearsome giant lizard that the world came to know as Godzilla, died on Wednesday.
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...