524 results found for: Godzilla
Shimizu Takeshi
Shimizu Takeshi is a Japanese film art director from Kanagawa, Japan. He began his career as an art assistant on the special effects television drama "Ultraman 80" and later worked at Tokyo Disneyland. He joined Toho, where he initially focused on special effects art before making his debut as an art…
Beauty Saguchi
Beauty Saguchi is a Japanese hair and makeup artist and beauty director affiliated with OFFICE BEAUTY (オフィスビューティー). Originally from Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, he was discovered by Naoe Fumiko (直江冨美子) at Central Fashion (セントラルファッション), which led to his…
Andrew Hughes
Turkish-born businessman who lived in Japan and was recruited to play Western parts in Japanese films. For 1961’s The Last War, Hughes worked as an intermediary between the Japanese crew and the sizable Western cast of that film; although he apparently served as an interpreter on occasion, he did…
Satsuma Kenpachiro
Satsuma Kenpachiro was a Japanese actor and suit actor born in Kagoshima, Japan. He was also the head of the Satsuma Goken Training Institute. In 1965, he joined Kawasaki Steel Corporation. The following year, he transferred to Chiba Steel Works. In 1967, he left Kawasaki Steel and entered the Nikkatsu…
Kirino Nadao
Regular player in salaryman and Crazy Cats comedies, and in supporting roles in sci-fi, most frequently as gangsters and/or flunkies. Probably best remembered as the astronaut who has trouble with gravity in Battle in Outer Space (1959). He retired from acting in 1970, around the time Toho’s exclusive…
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…
Kumagai Jiro
Kumagai Jiro is a Japanese actor who appeared (or at the very least had a presence in) no less than 20 sci-fi films, and many other films besides. He reportedly lived no more than 3 minutes away from Toho studios during the height of Toho’s output. From 1963 onward he acted under the stage name “Kumagai…
Natsuki Junpei
Natsuki Junpei is a Japanese actor born in Fukuoka, Japan. He was a supporting player for Toho in the 50s and 60s, recognizable by his high forehead and dry, often worried expressions. He's best remembered for a single, lingering shot as a power plant worker in the original 1954 film, Godzilla.
Ubukata Soji
Ubukata Soji was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo City, Tokyo. His death date is unknown. After dropping out of the old junior high school, he entered the Japanese Film Actor School in Hongo Ward. He joined Kawai Productions, which was founded in February 1928. In 1931, he transferred to Teikoku Kinema,…
Tachikawa Hiroshi
Tachikawa joined the Haiyuza acting training institute fresh out of high school. He appeared prominently on stage before premiering in film for Toei studios in 1952. In 1954 Tachikawa became a contracted actor for Toho studios. His career was interrupted in 1958 when he was seriously injured in an auto…
