Yasuaki Sakamoto

Yasuaki Sakamoto Occupation Production manager First work Renai Taifūken (1950) Notable work Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Yasuaki Sakamoto (坂本泰明,   Sakamoto Yasuaki) is a Japanese production manager. Joining Toho some time before 1950, he worked on his first film, Renai Taifūken, as a production assistant, and quickly rose to the position of production coordinator. He was then promoted further to a production manager in 1953, and went on to serve in a number of Toho's films until the late 1960s, including many of the company's tokusatsu productions.

Selected Filmography

Production Manager

• The Legend of the White Serpent (1956)
• The Mysterians (1957)
• Battle in Outer Space (1959)
• The Human Vapor (1960)
• Gorath (1962)
• King Kong Escapes (1967)
• Son of Godzilla (1967)
• Destroy All Monsters (1968)
• Latitude Zero (1969)

Special Effects Production Manager

• Godzilla (1954)
• Rodan (1956) [credited for "Special Effects"]
• The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
• Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
• Latitude Zero (1969)

External Links

• Yasuaki Sakamoto on Toho Official Site