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|death            =December 20, 2011
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'''Motoyoshi Tomioka''' {{Nihongo|富岡 素敬|Tomioka Motoyoshi}} was a [[Japan]]ese cinematographer who worked on numerous [[Toho]] [[kaiju]] and science fiction [[:Category:Kaiju Films|films]] during the [[Showa era]].
'''Motoyoshi Tomioka''' {{Nihongo|富岡 素敬|Tomioka Motoyoshi}}, also miscredited in English as '''Sokei Tomioka''', was a [[Japan]]ese cinematographer who worked on numerous [[Toho]] [[tokusatsu]] [[:Category:Films|films]] during the [[Shōwa period]]. Training at the [[Eiji Tsuburaya]] Special Effects Research Institute,{{R|EoG}} Tomioka joined Toho as one of Tsuburaya's assistant cameramen. He was officially promoted to cinematographer with [[1961]]'s ''[[Mothra (film)|Mothra]]'', working second to [[Sadamasa Arikawa]].{{R|EoG}} Upon Arikawa's promotion to special effects director in [[1966]], Tomioka moved up to first camera, with [[Yoichi Manoda]] taking second.{{R|EoG}} Tomioka also occasionally worked outside of special effects, namely on ''[[All Monsters Attack]]'' (1969) and ''[[Terror of Mechagodzilla]]'' (1975), which used largely the same staff between their human and special effects sequences.
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==Selected filmography==
==Selected filmography==
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===Assistant special effects cinematographer===
===Cinematography / Director of Photography===
*''[[Godzilla (1954 film)|Godzilla]]'' (1954) [uncredited]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://31fb9f38.viewer.kintoneapp.com/public/0a3f41a74b8bb9e879c82e5240035410e01df4c27f0dfc1d2ef44495962b1f44/detail/def50200ec932205e779beab048df20b6feb1a21bdaa550fe6a4bc9ca76337bb18c55370939feece68a313153f78bf01306b5a0b466bbe5cb20b56991f9a2933d58c6b7dc89a6d255cb556f9d9665a2eecb4e71f93c5b3e603e8e048df9de85ce74df126007be1f3a5cb01c12fa11c2a3c6c4b915ce6d04db5bc4431c7346547be40bb38b2a3381f97d0120ea4c201f08464cf864f36abefb0|title=ゴジラ|trans-title=''Godzilla''|work=Toho Reference Room|accessdate=1 August 2023}}</ref>
*''[[All Monsters Attack]]'' (1969)
*''[[Godzilla Raids Again]]'' (1955) [uncredited]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://31fb9f38.viewer.kintoneapp.com/public/0a3f41a74b8bb9e879c82e5240035410e01df4c27f0dfc1d2ef44495962b1f44/detail/def50200a787697b92decaf14b298785ccd3a5da5c26af2cabb8ccc891660e9e63c006b66da525e9f3052a565cb2f23a98509a8187b8b454ad045884cd792d610aaf0683df64e7f59c6991ddd8d289142ba9c13f250cca17caa84238f3c79adf3f48505202e1206a5d1aa47a2b7d857eb1c563a0ae68f63f8eb87d612dbf77eac5ae43e464c0a8199375d84d030cd873c91a2063858983488a|title=ゴジラの逆襲|trans-title=''Godzilla Raids Again''|work=Toho Reference Room|accessdate=1 August 2023}}</ref>
*''[[Terror of Mechagodzilla]]'' (1975)
*''[[wikipedia:The Legend of the White Serpent (film)|The Legend of the White Serpent]]'' (1956) [uncredited]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://31fb9f38.viewer.kintoneapp.com/public/0a3f41a74b8bb9e879c82e5240035410e01df4c27f0dfc1d2ef44495962b1f44/detail/def50200c9480a7fabc0b6739914b8f1d12c3f8a0d685f9ebca3652b797e01719617dce1c2cf0471155089cfc4debb3aa102506d46e3e122ad837b5e3fde15729ac7ba1762996fac558e6d9e7818bc0b955a544cea2fe044bcd6b3b3f37231001262be434f08d512b41982f689cc1b682074983ea6a51d51b0a0b3e3326f5a0e35d8b616ef2bfef83b4f51db1bc93f4ca13f79669bdec558d2|title=白夫人の妖恋|trans-title=''The Legend of the White Serpent''|work=Toho Reference Room|accessdate=1 August 2023}}</ref>
====Special effects====
*''[[The Mysterians]]'' (1957) [uncredited]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://31fb9f38.viewer.kintoneapp.com/public/0a3f41a74b8bb9e879c82e5240035410e01df4c27f0dfc1d2ef44495962b1f44/detail/def50200139f3cf284c01e3d6bf4d28475b89f6a7e4b8b51c285a86210e27d2b2c153c2395290024cf69b47312d1d48e569e40a146c5cb8adc3d39c368db40b7f377ded80880eb53739cfcb0d2fd4ac36cd765450dc9ae8e77a379ddf33102a1fb7f350727e2831e6f7a9e0a7d027fef30121cfba4a1de3dd4b496ef14805714a14ce9db67aa337d07ba888d3bf14f2cd3b62be551fbcabfdf|title=地球防衛軍|trans-title=''The Mysterians''|work=Toho Reference Room|accessdate=1 August 2023}}</ref>
*[[Godzilla (1954 film)|''Godzilla'' (1954)]] - Assistant
*''[[The Last War]]'' (1961) [uncredited]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://31fb9f38.viewer.kintoneapp.com/public/0a3f41a74b8bb9e879c82e5240035410e01df4c27f0dfc1d2ef44495962b1f44/detail/def50200ba76bb0aaa1750afb9fc89db333d2e0997135f1a9f9e799854f00493877072f05f80dd37aafac1fcee4193141c785474ce028ed77f71d1adb9d77e6f1b71e308e78df020401f4834f3837f9dc8589a39d77ce6d82dc4170508308952ac787493520dea8d5c431b4d5bbb54713aba49f0ec40face4feff4a135b5b1a5ccfaf1cdd44a5151fce92958689897635a455063e82308ab23|title=世界大戦争|trans-title=''The Last War''|work=Toho Reference Room|accessdate=1 August 2023}}</ref>
*''[[Godzilla Raids Again]]'' (1955) - Assistant
===Special effects cinematographer===
*''[[The Mysterians]]'' (1957) - Assistant
*''[[Mothra (film)|Mothra]]'' (1961) [uncredited; with [[Sadamasa Arikawa]]]{{R|EoG}}
*''[[The Last War]]'' (1961) - Assistant
*''[[Gorath (film)|Gorath]]'' (1962) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Gorath (film)|Gorath]]'' (1962)
*''[[King Kong vs. Godzilla]]'' (1962) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[King Kong vs. Godzilla]]'' (1962)
*''[[Matango (film)|Matango]]'' (1963) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Matango (film)|Matango]]'' (1963)
*''[[wikipedia:The Lost World of Sinbad|Samurai Pirate]]'' (1963) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Atragon (film)|Atragon]]'' (1963)
*''[[Atragon]]'' (1963) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Mothra vs. Godzilla]]'' (1964)
*''[[Mothra vs. Godzilla]]'' (1964) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Dogora (film)|Dogora]]'' (1964)
*''[[Dogora (film)|Dogora]]'' (1964) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster]]'' (1964)
*''[[Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster]]'' (1964) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Frankenstein vs. Baragon]]'' (1965)
*''[[Frankenstein vs. Baragon]]'' (1965) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Invasion of Astro-Monster]]'' (1965)
*''[[Invasion of Astro-Monster]]'' (1965) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[The War of the Gargantuas]]'' (1966)
*''[[The War of the Gargantuas]]'' (1966) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
*''[[Ebirah, Horror of the Deep]]'' (1966)
*''[[Ebirah, Horror of the Deep]]'' (1966) [with [[Yoichi Manoda]]]
*''[[King Kong Escapes]]'' (1967)
*''[[King Kong Escapes]]'' (1967) [with Yoichi Manoda]
*''[[Son of Godzilla]]'' (1967)
*''[[Son of Godzilla]]'' (1967) [with Yoichi Manoda]
*''[[Destroy All Monsters]]'' (1968)
*''[[Destroy All Monsters]]'' (1968) [with Yoichi Manoda]
*''[[Latitude Zero]]'' (1969)
*''[[Latitude Zero]]'' (1969) [with Yoichi Manoda]
*''[[Space Amoeba]]'' (1970)
*''[[Space Amoeba]]'' (1970)
*''[[Godzilla vs. Gigan]]'' (1972)
*''[[Godzilla vs. Gigan]]'' (1972)
*''[[Godzilla vs. Megalon]]'' (1973)
*''[[Godzilla vs. Megalon]]'' (1973)
*''[[Submersion of Japan]]'' (1973)
*''[[Submersion of Japan]]'' (1973)
*''[[Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla]]'' (1974)
*''[[Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla]]'' (1974) [with [[Takeshi Yamamoto]]]
*''[[Prophecies of Nostradamus]]'' (1974)
*''[[Prophecies of Nostradamus]]'' (1974) [with Takeshi Yamamoto]
*''[[ESPY]]'' (1974)
*''[[ESPY]]'' (1974)
*''Conflagration'' (1975)
*''[[The Mighty Peking Man]]'' (1977)
 
===Cinematographer===
==External links==
*''[[All Monsters Attack]]'' (1969)
*[https://www.toho.co.jp/library/system/people/?2243 Motoyoshi Tomioka on Toho Official Site]
*''[[Terror of Mechagodzilla]]'' (1975)
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*''[[The Phoenix]]'' (1978) [as Michael Tomioka]
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Latest revision as of 01:47, 19 January 2024

Motoyoshi Tomioka
An image of Motoyoshi Tomioka published in Encyclopedia of Godzilla (1990)
Born June 15, 1924[1]
Occupation Cinematographer
First work Rapids (1952)
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Motoyoshi Tomioka (富岡 素敬,   Tomioka Motoyoshi), also miscredited in English as Sokei Tomioka, was a Japanese cinematographer who worked on numerous Toho tokusatsu films during the Shōwa period. Training at the Eiji Tsuburaya Special Effects Research Institute,[1] Tomioka joined Toho as one of Tsuburaya's assistant cameramen. He was officially promoted to cinematographer with 1961's Mothra, working second to Sadamasa Arikawa.[1] Upon Arikawa's promotion to special effects director in 1966, Tomioka moved up to first camera, with Yoichi Manoda taking second.[1] Tomioka also occasionally worked outside of special effects, namely on All Monsters Attack (1969) and Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975), which used largely the same staff between their human and special effects sequences.

Selected filmography

Assistant special effects cinematographer

Special effects cinematographer

Cinematographer

References

This is a list of references for Motoyoshi Tomioka. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kawakita, Koichi; Sugita, Hiroki; Toya, Koichi; Kamatsu, Tadashi; Sasaki, Yu, eds. (1 January 1990). Encyclopedia of Godzilla. Gakken. p. 101.
  2. ↑ "ゴジラ" [Godzilla]. Toho Reference Room. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "ゴジラの逆襲" [Godzilla Raids Again]. Toho Reference Room. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  4. ↑ "白夫人の妖恋" [The Legend of the White Serpent]. Toho Reference Room. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  5. ↑ "地球防衛軍" [The Mysterians]. Toho Reference Room. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  6. ↑ "世界大戦争" [The Last War]. Toho Reference Room. Retrieved 1 August 2023.

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