Kaoru Mabuchi

Takeshi Kimura Takeshi Kimura Born February 4, 1912 Osaka, Japan First work Red-Light Bases (1951) Notable work Godzilla vs. Megalon

Takeshi Kimura (木村 武,   Kimura Takeshi), also known by the pseudonym Kaoru Mabuchi (馬淵薫,   Mabuchi Kaoru), 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 name Kaoru Mabuchi. Kimura passed away in January 1988, due to a throat obstruction.

Selected Filmography

Screenwriter

• Rodan (1956)
• The Mysterians (1957)
• 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) [unused draft for the unmade episode, "Ghost Car"]
• The The War of the Gargantuas (1966) [as Kaoru Mabuchi]
• King Kong Escapes (1967) [as Kaoru Mabuchi]
• Destroy All Monsters (1968) [as Kaoru Mabuchi]
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) [as Kaoru Mabuchi]
• Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) [as Kaoru Mabuchi; story]
• Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) [as Kaoru Mabuchi; story]