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===Storywriter===
===Storywriter===
*''[[Godzilla vs. Megalon]]'' (1973)
*''[[Godzilla vs. Megalon]]'' (1973)
*''[[wikia:w:c:tokusatsu:Jungle Prince|Jungle Prince]]'' (TV 1970)<ref>{{cite magazine|title=|magazine=Spaceship|issue=10|date=Spring 1982|publisher=[[Asahi Sonorama]]|page=24}}</ref>
*''[[Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla]]'' (1974) [with Masami Fukushima]
*''[[Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla]]'' (1974) [with Masami Fukushima]
===Miscellaneous===
===Miscellaneous===
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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*Sekizawa wrote the lyrics for ''[[Mothra (film)|Mothra]]''{{'}}s insert song, "[[Mothra's Song]]" with [[Ishiro Honda]] and [[Tomoyuki Tanaka]] under the joint pen name '''Koji Yuki''' {{Nihongo|由起こうじ|Yuki Kōji}}.
*Sekizawa wrote the lyrics for ''[[Mothra (film)|Mothra]]''{{'}}s insert song, "[[Mothra's Song]]" with [[Ishiro Honda]] and [[Tomoyuki Tanaka]] under the joint pen name '''Koji Yuki''' {{Nihongo|由起こうじ|Yuki Kōji}}.
==Notes==
==Notes==
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Revision as of 03:45, 13 April 2022

Shinichi Sekizawa
Shinichi Sekizawa
Born June 2, 1920
Kyoto, Japan
Died November 19, 1992 (aged 72)
Nanpeidai, Shibuya, Japan
Occupation Screenwriter
First work Musume Jūhachi
Usotsuki Jidai
(1949)
Notable work King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
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What's most important is entertainment. If there's too much detail, the audience won't be interested. So my philosophy is [to] just add enough to tell the story and keep it moving along.
„ 

— Shinichi Sekizawa[1]

Shinichi Sekizawa (関沢 新一,   Sekizawa Shinichi) was a Japanese screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's tokusatsu output in the Showa era. He also created the 1968 miniseries Agon: Atomic Dragon. Sekizawa passed away on November 19, 1992, at the age of 72 from myocardial infarction.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

Unproduced works

Storywriter

Miscellaneous

Gallery

Trivia

Notes

  1. Credited as "Screenplay Adviser" in the film's international export version.

References

This is a list of references for Shinichi Sekizawa. 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. Ryfle, Steve; Godziszewski, Ed (3 October 2017). Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. Wesleyan University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0819577412.
  2. Spaceship. No. 10. Asahi Sonorama. Spring 1982. p. 24. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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