FILM DIRECTOR

Tomoyuki Tanaka

1910 - 1997

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Tomoyuki "Yūkō" Tanaka (Japanese: 田中 友幸（ともゆき）, Hepburn: Tanaka Tomoyuki; April 26, 1910 – April 2, 1997) was a Japanese film producer, best known as the creator of Godzilla. He produced most of the installments in the Godzilla series, beginning in 1954 with Godzilla and ending in 1995 with Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. He was one of the most prolific Japanese producers of all time, having worked on more than 200 films, including over 80 tokusatsu films and six of Akira Kurosawa's films, notably Yojimbo and Kagemusha. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tomoyuki Tanaka is the 763rd most popular film director (down from 672nd in 2019), the 1,080th most popular biography from Japan (down from 949th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Tomoyuki Tanaka ranks 763 out of 2,041. Before him are Sergio Martino, Paul Greengrass, Bruno Mattei, Dadasaheb Phalke, Gareth Edwards, and Pupi Avati. After him are Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Becker, Emil Loteanu, Henry Selick, Pierre Granier-Deferre, and Max Fleischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Tomoyuki Tanaka ranks 200. Before him are László Lékai, Cao Yu, Gunter d'Alquen, Ram Manohar Lohia, Robert Cummings, and Adoniran Barbosa. After him are Karl Hugo Strunz, Arsenie Boca, Viggo Kampmann, Lee Wallard, Cahit Arf, and Jafar Sharif-Emami. Among people deceased in 1997, Tomoyuki Tanaka ranks 171. Before him are Edward Gardère, Robert Herman, Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Bengt Danielsson, William Hickey, and Aurelio González. After him are Cahit Arf, Béla Barényi, Myrtle Bachelder, Dulce María Loynaz, Sándor Végh, and Jurek Becker.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomoyuki Tanaka ranks 1,080 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroshi Ochiai (1946), Morihiro Saito (1928), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Chieko Baisho (1941), Shiho Kaneda (1965), and Toshihiko Okimune (1959). After him are Ken Ogata (1937), Kazuo Koike (1936), Tsutomu Seki (1930), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), and Miyuki Nakajima (1952).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Tomoyuki Tanaka ranks 33. Before him are Seijun Suzuki (1923), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Yoji Yamada (1931), and Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886). After him are Rintaro (1941), Mamoru Hosoda (1967), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), Yoshishige Yoshida (1933), and Masato Harada (1949).

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