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Asai Masakatsu
Japanese assistant director and cameraman who worked for Toho between the 1950s and 60s. He served as the 1st AD under Eiji Tsuburaya on numerous of the company's classic tokusatsu films, and was succeeded by Teruyoshi Nakano. Because assistant special effects directors were not credited until Matango,…
Sakamoto Haruya
Stocky, imposing, and big-eared actor who rarely played anything other than a soldier, a policeman, or a samurai. He was apparently strong enough to share the role of King Ghidorah in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) with Shoichi Hirose. He very rarely had speaking roles. Ironically, despite…
Kitagawa Yoichiro
In the latter half of the 1950s, he became an exclusive actor of Toho and appeared in many works under his real name, Ryuichi Hosokawa. After the collapse of the exclusive system in 1971, he was given the stage name Yoichiro Kitagawa and is mainly active on television as an exclusive member of NAC .…
Suda Junnosuke
An exclusive actor for Toho that did many bit parts regardless of the movies genre.
Tachibana Masaaki
Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…
Nakano Toshiko
Toshiko Nakano is an actress, known for Seven Samurai (1954), The Tale of Osaka Castle (1961) and Varan (1958).
Oonaka Seiji
A Japanese professional baseball player and actor. He appeared in numerous small roles in many of Toho's science-fiction films from 1956 to 1970. He was also cast as Godzilla in Son of Godzilla due to his tall stature, but a hand injury forced him to bow out of the role shortly after filming started…
