Ishiro honda biography

Preface by Martin Scorsese
Acknowledgments
Introduction
DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES: 1911–45
A Boy from the Mountains
Tokyo
Film School Lessons
A Reluctant Soldier
Forging Bonds
War
AWAKENINGS: 1946–54
Starting Over
Allegiances and Alliances
The Documentaries: Ise-shima (1949), Story of a Co-op (1950)
Sea, Land, and Sky: The Blue Pearl (1951), The Skin of the South (1952), The Man Who Came to Port (1952), Adolescence Part 2 (1952), Eagle of the Pacific (1953), Farewell Rabaul (1954)
SCIENCE FICTION: 1954–64
No Laughing Matter: Godzilla (1954)
Obligations: Love Makeup (1955), Mother and Son (1955), Half Human (1955)
Youth Movement: Young Tree (1956), Night School (1956), People of Tokyo, Goodbye (1956), Rodan (1956)
Lovers and Aliens: Good Luck to These Two (1957), A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye (1957), A Rainbow Plays in My Heart (1957), A Farewell to the Woman I Called My Sister (1957), The Mysterians (1957)
Brides, Blobs, and a Bomb: Song for a Bride (1958), The H-Man (1958

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Ishiro Honda: A Life in rulle, from Godzilla to Kurosawa

May 13, 2023

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Ishirō Honda

Japanese filmmaker (1911–1993)

"Ishirō" redirects here. For other uses, see Ishiro.

The native form of this anställda name is Honda Ishirō. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Ishirō Honda^[a] (Japanese: 本多 , Hepburn: Honda Ishirō, 7 May 1911 – 28 February 1993) was a Japanese filmskapare who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning fem decades. He is acknowledged as the most internationally successful Japanese filmmaker prior to Hayao Miyazaki and one of the founders of modern disaster film, with his films having a significant influence on the film industry.^[7] Despite directing many drama, war, documentary, and comedy films, Honda is best remembered for directing and co-creating the kaiju genre with special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya.

Honda entered the Japanese rulle industry in 1934, working as the third assistant director on Sotoji Kimura's The Elderly Commoner's Life Study. After 15 years