Teruyoshi Nakano

Template:Infobox Director Teruyoshi Nakano (中野昭慶,   Nakano Teruyoshi) is a Japanese special effects director who has worked on several Toho-produced tokusatsu films, including many entries in the Godzilla series.

Career

Nakano worked under his mentor Eiji Tsuburaya for much of the Showa series, before taking the reigns as head director of special effects for the Godzilla series following Tsuburaya's passing. Following the end of the Showa series, Nakano continued serving as director of special effects for other Toho films in the 1970's and 80's, such as The War in Space. Nakano's last work on a Godzilla film was as director of special effects for the 1984 revival of the series, The Return of Godzilla, in which Nakano created an expansive miniature cityscape and a giant "Cybot Godzilla" with the larger budget he was given. It was in this film that Nakano worked with and mentored Shinji Higuchi, who would go on to become a well-known special effects director in kaiju films such as the Heisei Gamera trilogy, and eventually a full-fledged director for films such as Attack on Titan and Godzilla: Resurgence. Nakano finally retired at the age of 42 after directing the special effects for Princess from the Moon in 1987.

Since his retirement, Nakano has continued to be a prominent and active figure in the Godzilla franchise, performing interviews about his work on the series and making public appearances at events like G-Fest.

Filmography

Special Effects

• The Birth of Japan (1959) - Assistant director
• Gorath (1962) - Assistant director
• King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) - Assistant director
• Matango (1963) - Assistant director
• Atragon (1963) - Assistant director
• Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) - Assistant director
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) - Assistant director
• Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) - Assistant director
• Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) - Assistant director
• War of the Gargantuas (1966) - Assistant director
• Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) - Assistant director
• King Kong Escapes (1967) - Assistant director
• Son of Godzilla (1967) - Assistant director
• Destroy All Monsters (1968) - Assistant director
• Latitude Zero (1969) - Assistant director
• All Monsters Attack (1969) - Director [uncredited]
• Space Amoeba (1970) - Assistant director
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) - Director
• Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) - Director
• Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) - Director
• Zone Fighter (1973) - Director
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) - Director
• Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) - Director
• Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) - Director
• The War in Space (1977) - Director
• The Return of Godzilla (1984) - Director
• Princess from the Moon (1987) - Director

Gallery

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  Teruyoshi Nakano and Yoshimitsu Banno with the SoshingekiGoji on the set of Godzilla vs. Hedorah

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  Teruyoshi Nakano with the MegaroGoji and Mechagodzilla suits on the set of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

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  Teruyoshi Nakano with Mechagodzilla 2 on the set of Terror of Mechagodzilla

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  Teruyoshi Nakano with the 84Goji suit on the set of The Return of Godzilla

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  Teruyoshi Nakano, Shinji Higuchi, and Takashi Naganuma pose with the Godzilla statue in front of Toho Studios

External Links

• Interview by David Milner (July 1994)