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Tomoyuki "Yūkō" Tanaka [4] ( Japanese: 田中 友幸 ともゆき, Hepburn: Tanaka Tomoyuki, April 26, 1910 – April 2, 1997) was a Japanese film producer. Widely regarded as the creator of the Godzilla franchise, he produced most of the installments in the series, beginning in 1954 with Godzilla and ending in 1995 with Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.
Jan 26, 2024 · As Tanaka tells it (as related by Tsutsui), he was working on an expensive Toho production called "Shadow of Honor."
- Witney Seibold
Oct 18, 2022 · Gojira (Godzilla) meaning “Gorilla Whale” in Japanese, was given birth by the notion of a man named Tomoyuki Tanaka, a film producer. The idea was brought to Tanaka’s mind when he was flying over the ocean one day in 1954, and imagined to himself what would happen if a giant beast arose from the depths of the water.
Aug 7, 2020 · A producer at Tomo Studios, Tanaka Tomoyuki, was inspired by the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in addition to what was known as the “Lucky Dragon No. 5 Incident” of March 1954, in which...
- Kimmy Yam
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 certainly...
Notable people with the name. Tomoyuki is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings. Tomoyuki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: 友之, "friend, of" 友幸, "friend, happiness" 友行, "friend, go" 友恭, "friend, respectful" 友志, "friend, determination" 知之, "know, of" 知幸, "know, happiness" 知行, "know, go"
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...
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