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Aug 4, 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.
The head man at Toho Studios for some time, Tomoyuki Tanaka produced every Toho monster movie, Godzilla or otherwise, from the start of the first Godzilla film in 1954 up until 1995's Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.
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...
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...
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. He was 86.
Apr 2, 1997 · Tomoyuki Tanaka. Biography. Born in Osaka Prefecture, Tomoyuki Tanaka was head man at Toho Studios and one of its most prolific producers. Throughout his career he would produce the films of notable filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Mikio Naruse.
