![]() Thus, he worked at major Japanese studios outside Toho, creating effects for films such as Daiei's The Invisible Man Appears (1949), widely regarded as the first Japanese science fiction film. In 1948, however, Tsuburaya was purged from Toho by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers because of his comprehensive miniatures featured in The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya and created Tsuburaya Special Technology Laboratory with his eldest son Hajime. ![]() His groundbreaking effects were believed to be behind the film's major success, and he won an award for his work from the Japan Motion Picture Cinematographers Association. Tsuburaya directed the effects for The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya in 1942, which became the highest-grossing Japanese film in history upon its release. In 1937, Tsuburaya was employed by Toho and established the company's effects department. His first majorly successful film in effects, The Daughter of the Samurai (1937), remarkably featured the first full-scale rear projection. After filming his directorial debut on the cruiser Asama in the Pacific Ocean, he worked on Princess Kaguya (1935), one of Japan's first major films to incorporate special effects. Tsuburaya completed the first iron shooting crane in October 1934, and an adaptation of the crane is still in use across the globe today. At the age of thirty-two, Tsuburaya watched King Kong, which greatly influenced him to work in special effects. Thereafter, he worked as an assistant cinematographer on several films, including Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness (1926). During his five-decade career, Tsuburaya worked on approximately 250 films and earned six Japan Technical Awards.įollowing a brief stint as an inventor, Tsuburaya was employed by Japanese cinema pioneer Yoshirō Edamasa in 1919 and began his career working as an assistant cinematographer on Edamasa's A Tune of Pity. Known as the "Father of Tokusatsu", he pioneered Japan's special effects industry, introducing several technological developments in film productions. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Japanese cinema and a creator of the Godzilla and Ultraman franchises. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Eiji Tsuburaya ( Japanese: 円谷 英二, Hepburn: Tsuburaya Eiji, J – January 25, 1970) was a Japanese special effects director, filmmaker and inventor. ![]() Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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