Toshiro Aoki

Toshiro Aoki Born 1936 Gunma, Japan Died December 31, 2018 Occupation Art director, set dresser First work The Three Treasures (1959) Notable work Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)

Toshiro Aoki (青木 利郎,   Aoki Toshirō) was a Japanese production designer and set dresser, succeeding Yasuyuki Inoue during his departure from Toho.

Aoki was hired as a part-time Toho employee by Akira Watanabe in 1959, serving as an art assistant on The Three Treasures. He took up a full time position after just three months, continuing to work under Yoshio Irie and Yasuyuki Inoue through the 1960s. Following Inoue's departure from the company in 1971, Aoki was appointed the position of art director, beginning with Godzilla vs. Gigan the following year. He worked on his final film, The Return of Godzilla, in 1984 and was tasked with overseeing construction of the Hibiya Chanter building for Toho's real estate division in 1988 before finally retiring in 1996.

Selected filmography

Assistant special effects art director

• The Three Treasures (1959) [with Yasuyuki Inoue, Yoshio Irie, Hiromasa Shirai]
• Mothra (1961) [with Yasuyuki Inoue, Jiro Shirasaki]
• Gorath (1962) [with Yasuyuki Inoue, Yoshio Irie, Jiro Shirasaki]
• King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) [with Yasuyuki Inoue, Yoshio Irie, Jiro Shirasaki]
• Dogora (1964) [with Yasuyuki Inoue, Jiro Shirasaki]
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) [with Yasuyuki Inoue, Jiro Shirasaki]
• Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) [with Yasuyuki Inoue, Jiro Shirasaki]
• The War of the Gargantuas (1966) [with Yoshio Irie, Shun Naganuma, Takeharu Ikebuchi, Mutsumi Toshima, Hiromasa Shirai, Hiroshi Komura, Jiro Shirasaki]
• Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) [with Takeharu Ikebuchi, Mutsumi Toshima, Hiromasa Shirai, Hiroshi Komura, Jiro Shirasaki]
• Son of Godzilla (1967) [with Mutsumi Toshima, Jiro Shirasaki]
• Destroy All Monsters (1968) [with Hiromasa Shirai, Mutsumi Toshima, Hiroshi Komura, Jiro Shirasaki]
• Latitude Zero (1969) [with Mutsumi Toshima, Hiromasa Shirai, Hiroshi Komura, Jiro Shirasaki]
• All Monsters Attack (1969) [with Naomi Akimori, Hiromasa Shirai]
• Space Amoeba (1970) [with Mutsumi Toshima, Hiromasa Shirai, Hiroshi Komura]
• Submersion of Japan (1973) [with Hiroshi Komura, Akihiko Iguchi]
• Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) [with Hiroshi Komura]

Special effects set dresser

• Atragon (1963) [with Takeharu Ikebuchi]
• Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) [with Takeharu Ikebuchi, Tadao Kudo]

Special effects art director

• Return of Ultraman (TV 1971-1972) [with Noriyoshi Ikeya, Akihiko Iguchi, Yoshio Suzuki, Tetsuzo Osawa]
• Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
• Ultraman Ace (TV 1972-1973) [with Akihiko Iguchi]
• Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
• Ultraman Taro (TV 1973-1974) [with Katsuhiko Sakurai, Takashi Shimazaki, Fumio Ogawa]
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) [with Hiroshi Komura]
• ESPY (1974)
• Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) [with Hiroshi Komura]
• The Return of Godzilla (1984) [with Yasuyuki Inoue; uncredited]

Interviewee

• SciFi JAPAN TV (TV 2012-2014) [episode 10; with Hiromasa Shirai, Jiro Shirasaki]

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