Name Jun Fukuda | Role Film director | |
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Movies Godzilla vs Megalon, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Godzilla vs the Sea Monster, Godzilla vs Gigan, Son of Godzilla Similar People Akihiko Hirata, Shinichi Sekizawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Akira Takarada | ||
JUN FUKUDA FILMS
Son of Godzilla, Jun Fukuda, 1967 - Godzilla's Son Playing with Tail Scene
Jun Fukuda (福田純, February 17, 1923 Manchuria - December 3, 2000) was a Japanese film director, writer and producer.
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- JUN FUKUDA FILMS
- Son of Godzilla Jun Fukuda 1967 Godzillas Son Playing with Tail Scene
- Biography
- Director
- Assistant Directing
- Writer
- References
Biography
Jun Fukuda joined Toho in 1946 and ventured into the realm of assistant director as others like Hiroshi Inagaki took the young man under their wings. By 1959, Fukuda began a career as a full-fledged director. His early work slanted more toward mystery, but he began to expand into more comedic work by the mid-1960s, with movies such as Iron Finger (1965). It was around this time that Fukuda was approached and given the opportunity to direct a movie in the Godzilla series, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), which he accepted. By the director's request, Akira Ifukube was bypassed for the production in favor of Masaru Sato, a composer with whom Fukuda was more familiar. Fukuda would go on to direct entries in Toho's popular Young Guy series and Konto 55, however he would be best known for his Godzilla work and would later in his career become the "go to" director for special effects productions after Ishiro Honda stepped out of the limelight. Fukuda also wrote the unproduced film The Invisible Man vs. the Human Torch.