Keiichi Sakurai

Keiichi Sakurai Born 1950 Kagoshima, Japan Occupation Cinematographer First work Zone Fighter (TV 1973) Notable work Shin Godzilla (2016)

“	I actually entered Toho Studios in order to create Godzilla movies. This was the whole reason why I joined the company. Back then we had a specialized special effects cinematography team that worked just on these type of movies and at one point that team kind of fell apart, it went away. I am the last special effects cinematographer for Toho Studios.	„
	— Sakurai, paraphrased from an interview with Famous Monsters TV

Keiichi Sakurai (桜井 景一,   Sakurai Keiichi) is a Japanese cameraman. A lifelong fan of tokusatsu, he entered the genre as an assistant on an episode of Zone Fighter. He joined Toho Eizo thereafter and participated in several of the company's special effects films, including on both the drama and tokusatsu units of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. In the 1990s, Sakurai served as an adviser on three of the Heisei Godzilla films, and was the director of photography of Rebirth of Mothra 3's special effects unit. Sakurai has continued to shoot special effects films and TV series, and is a frequent collaborator of Shinji Higuchi.

Selected filmography

Assistant special effects cinematographer

• Zone Fighter (TV 1973) [episode 4; uncredited]
• Submersion of Japan (1973) [uncredited]
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) [uncredited]
• Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) [uncredited]
• Submersion of Japan: Television Series (TV 1974-1975) [unknown number of episodes; uncredited]
• The War in Space (1977) [uncredited]
• Magnitude 7.9 (1980) [uncredited]
• Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984)
• Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994)

Associate cinematographer

• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
• Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)

Special effects cinematographer

• Mikadoroid (1991) [with Toshimitsu Oneda]
• Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998) [with Kenichi Eguchi]
• The Gransazers (TV 2003-2004)
• The Justirisers (TV 2004-2005)
• Super Fleet Sazer-X (TV 2005-2006)
• Super Fleet Sazer-X the Movie (2005)
• Monster Magnitude: 9 (TV 2010)
• Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 (2015) [with Keizo Suzuki]
• Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 (2015) [with Keizo Suzuki]
• Shin Godzilla (2016) [with Keizo Suzuki]
• Godzilla vs. the Tigers (2022)

Cinematographer

• Kawaii! JeNny (TV 2007)
• Go! Godman (2008)
• The God of Clay (2011) [with Takehiro Kuramochi]
• Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012) [with Keizo Suzuki]
• Dream Challenge: Godzilla Appears in Sukagawa (2019)

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Bibliography

• Nakamura, Satoshi; Shiraishi, Masahiko; Aita, Tetsuo; Tomoi, Taketo; Shimazaki, Jun; Maruyama, Takeshi; Shimizu, Toshifumi; Hayakawa, Masaru (29 November 2014). Godzilla Toho Champion Festival Perfection. ASCII MEDIA WORKS. ISBN 978-4-04-866999-3.

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