Ishiro Honda

Ishiro Honda

Occupation/Role	Director, writer, editor
Birthday	May 7, 1911
Date of Death	February 28, 1993
Birthplace	Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
First Work	Chocolate and Soldiers (1938)
Notable Work	Godzilla (1954)

“Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend himself. After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them.„

— Ishiro Honda, speaking of his film Rodan

Ishiro Honda (本多猪四郎, Honda Ishirō) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who is most famous for his work on various tokusatsu Toho films. During the early 1970s, he directed a few tokusatsu TV episodes for Tsuburaya Productions.

Biography[]

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Filmography Work[]

Godzilla (1954) - Director / writer
Half Human (1955) - Director
Rodan (1956) - Director
The Mysterians (1957) - Director
H-Man (1958) - Director
Varan (1958) - Director
Battle in Outer Space (1959) - Director
The Human Vapor (1960) - Director
Mothra (1961) - Director / editor [1974 Champion Festival reissue]
Gorath (1962) - Director
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) - Director / editor [1970 Champion Festival reissue]
Matango (1963) - Director
Atragon (1963) - Director
vs. Godzilla] (1964) - Director / editor [1970 Champion Festival reissue]
Dogora (1964) - Director
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) - Director / editor [1970 Champion Festival reissue]
Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) - Director
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) - Director / editor [1971 Champion Festival reissue]
The War of the Gargantuas (1966) - Director / writer
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) - Editor [1972 Champion Festival reissue]
King Kong Escapes (1967) - Director
Son of Godzilla (1967) - Editor [1973 Champion Festival reissue]
Destroy All Monsters (1968) - Director / writer / editor [1972 Champion Festival reissue]
Latitude Zero (1969) - Director
All Monsters Attack (1969) - Director / Director of Special Effects [uncredited]
Space Amoeba (1970) - Director
Return of Ultraman (TV 1971-1972) - Director [episodes 1, 2, 7, 9, and 51]
Mirrorman (TV 1971-1972) - Director [episodes 1 and 2]
Zone Fighter (TV 1973) - Director [episodes 3, 4, 12, 13, 18, 19, 23, and 24]
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) - Director

Videos[]

Yoshimitsu Banno interviews Ishiro Honda in 1990

Trivia[]

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External Links[]

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