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Ishirō Honda (Japanese: 本多 猪四郎 （ いしろう ）, Hepburn: Honda Ishirō, 7 May 1911 – 28 February 1993) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning five decades.
2 Photos. Influential Japanese film director born May 7th, 1911, often credited as being the father of Godzilla. His name is a combination of "I" (or Ino), meaning "boar", and "shirô," meaning fourth son in the family.
Oct 24, 2019 · Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya on the set of Godzilla. From an early age, Honda was fascinated by the power of cinema. The son of a Buddhist monk, Honda was born on May 7, 1911, in Asahi, a small agricultural village in Yamagata Prefecture, high in the mountains of Tohoku.
May 6, 2024 · Honda Ishirō was a Japanese filmmaker who worked closely with Kurosawa Akira but was perhaps best known for his leading role in Japan’s kaijū eiga (“monster movie”) craze of the 1950s and ’60s, mostly through his direction of Gojira (1954; Godzilla) and several of its sequels.
Oct 3, 2017 · Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unmatched succession of science fiction films that were commercial hits worldwide.
Mar 2, 1993 · Ishiro Honda, who directed the first science-fiction movies of the monster Godzilla stomping on landmarks, died on Sunday night at Kono Hospital here. He was 81. More than 13 million moviegoers...
Feb 28, 1993 · Ishirō Honda (Honda Ishirō), sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", (May 7, 1911, in Yamagata Prefecture – February 28, 1993) was a Japanese film director. His early film career included working as an assistant under the famed director Akira Kurosawa.
