Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ishirō Honda [a] (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. [6]
A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister (別れの茶摘歌 姉妹篇 お姉さんと呼んだ人, Wakare no chatsumi-uta shimai-hen: Oneesan to yonda hito) is a 1957 black and white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda. Production designer was Iwao Akune, [1] lighting technician was Yoshio Tanaka and sound technician was Sanya Yamamoto. [2]
Ishiro Honda lamented years later in the Tokyo Journal, "They called it grotesque junk and said it looked like something you'd spit up. I felt sorry for my crew because they had worked so hard!" [110] Others said that depicting a fire-breathing organism was strange.
Eagle of the Pacific (太平洋の鷲, Taiheiyo no washi), also known as Operation Kamikaze, [2] is a 1953 Japanese epic war film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film dramatizes the start of Japan's military action in World War II, with an emphasis on the role of Isoroku Yamamoto .
Ishiro Honda had no idea whom to cast as the Empress of Mu but met Tetsuko Kobayashi by chance, who was working on a TV show in Toho's lot. Honda found her to be "hard working and very energetic." Kobayashi also applied the Empress' makeup herself. [3] Over 70,000,000 yen was spent on the construction of sets and props for the film.
However, Ishiro Honda ended up siding with Tsuchiya. The incident did not sour Ikebe, though, who worked again with Honda a few years later on Gorath (1962). When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, ten years after this film was released, Eiji Tsuburaya watched the “Great Leap for Mankind” on live television.
Director Ishiro Honda described the film, saying it was "larger in scale compared to Godzilla or Rodan and is aimed to be more of a true science fiction film ... I would like to wipe away the [Cold War-era] notion of East versus West and convey a simple, universal aspiration for peace, the coming together of all humankind as one to create a ...
[5] [25] In Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski's 2017 book covering Ishiro Honda's filmography, they expressed that Destroy All Monsters is now seen as the "last truly spirited entry" in Toho's initial series of kaiju films, due to "its audacious and simple story, a bounty of monsters and destruction, and a memorably booming soundtrack from Akira ...