FILM DIRECTOR

Ishirō Honda

1911 - 1993

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Ishirō Honda (Japanese: 本多 猪四郎（いしろう）, Hepburn: Honda Ishirō; 7 May 1911 – 28 February 1993) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning five 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. 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 film industry in 1934, working as the third assistant director on Sotoji Kimura's The Elderly Commoner's Life Study. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ishirō Honda is the 402nd most popular film director (down from 393rd in 2019), the 689th most popular biography from Japan (down from 596th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ishirō Honda ranks 402 out of 2,041. Before him are Irvin Kershner, Gaspar Noé, Mervyn LeRoy, Robert Stevenson, Just Jaeckin, and Albert Lamorisse. After him are Anthony Minghella, Tom Hooper, Martin Campbell, Jacques Deray, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Jean-Jacques Beineix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Ishirō Honda ranks 109. Before him are Jean-Pierre Aumont, Klára Dán von Neumann, Andor Lilienthal, André Leroi-Gourhan, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Simone Simon. After him are Roberto Matta, Danny Kaye, Franz Binder, Joseph Luns, Nicolae Kovács, and André Navarra. Among people deceased in 1993, Ishirō Honda ranks 77. Before him are Pierre Bérégovoy, René Pleven, Myrna Loy, Chris Hani, Desanka Maksimović, and Maurice Yaméogo. After him are Leon Ames, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, John Connally, Luciano Leggio, Marian Anderson, and E. P. Thompson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ishirō Honda ranks 689 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Kazuyuki Mugita (1984), Nobuo Kawakami (1947), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), and Yuriko Koike (1952). After him are Hideo Sakai (1909), Masaki Yokotani (1952), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Kōdō Sawaki (1880), Hiroji Imamura (1949), and Shibusawa Eiichi (1840).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Ishirō Honda ranks 17. Before him are Mamoru Oshii (1951), Hideaki Anno (1960), Satoshi Kon (1963), Makoto Shinkai (1973), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), and Kinji Fukasaku (1930). After him are Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Mikio Naruse (1905), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Takashi Miike (1960), and Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927).

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