Kaoru Mabuchi

Takeshi Kimura Takeshi Kimura Born February 4, 1912 Osaka, Japan Died May 3, 1987 Occupation Screenwriter First work Red-Light Bases (1951) Notable work Matango (1963)

Takeshi Kimura (木村 武,   Kimura Takeshi) was a Japanese screenwriter who wrote many of Toho's non-Godzilla tokusatsu films during the Showa era. Unlike his contemporary Shinichi Sekizawa, whose screenplays were noted for their lighthearted and "fun" tone, Kimura's screenplays were comparatively more gloomy and contained more political themes. Kimura considered his screenplay for Ishiro Honda's Matango to be his best work, and was considerably less enthusiastic about his later work, for which he wrote under the pseudonym Kaoru Mabuchi (馬淵薫,   Mabuchi Kaoru). Kimura passed away on May 3, 1987, due to a throat obstruction.

Selected Filmography

Screenwriter

• Rodan (1956) [with Takeo Murata]
• The Mysterians (1957)
• The H-Man (1958)
• The Human Vapor (1960)
• The Last War (1961)
• Gorath (1962)
• Matango (1963)
• Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) [as Kaoru Mabuchi]
• Ultra Q (TV 1966) [draft for the unmade episode, "Ghost Car"]
• The War of the Gargantuas (1966) [as Kaoru Mabuchi; with Ishiro Honda]
• King Kong Escapes (1967) [as Kaoru Mabuchi]
• Destroy All Monsters (1968) [as Kaoru Mabuchi; with Ishiro Honda]
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) [as Kaoru Mabuchi; with Yoshimitsu Banno]
• Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) [as Kaoru Mabuchi; story, Godzilla vs. the Space Monsters: Earth Defense Directive]
• Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) [as Kaoru Mabuchi; story, Godzilla vs. the Space Monsters: Earth Defense Directive]