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Tomoyuki Tanaka
Writer 1910 - 1997

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Osaka, Honshu, Japan

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. However, he is... Read full bio →

Filmography

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7 titles
Mosura 2: Kaitei no daikessen

Mosura 2: Kaitei no daikessen

Kunio Miyoshi 1997 1h 37m 5.0

The fairies from Infant Island discover a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.

Gojira vs. Mosura

Gojira vs. Mosura

Takao Okawara 1992 1h 42m 6.0

Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.

Godzilla 1985

Godzilla 1985

R.J. Kizer, Koji Hashimoto 1985 1h 27m 5.0

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985".

Gojira

Gojira

Koji Hashimoto 1984 1h 43m

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Wakusei daisenso

Wakusei daisenso

Jun Fukuda 1977 1h 31m 6.0

Earth is attacked by alien spacecraft from Venus. But a Japanese scientist has constructed a space craft, the Gohten, with which he may save humanity.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Ishirō Honda, Terry O. Morse 1956 1h 21m 6.3

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo. This is the edited American release of "Gojira".

Gojira

Gojira

Ishirō Honda 1954 1h 36m 7.9

A remake of the Japanese classic film.

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