Hiroshi Komura

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Hiroshi Komura
Hiroshi Komura circa 2014
Born 1938
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan[1]
Occupation Former production designer
First work Mothra (1961)
Notable work Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
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Hiroshi Komura (小村 完,   Komura Hiroshi),[1] also erroneously called Kan Komura[2] and Kan Kobayashi,[3] is a Japanese former production designer and manager.

After graduating from Musashino Art University, Komura joined Toho part-time in 1961. Turning down an opportunity to work for NHK through a connection of his father's, Komura moved to Tokyo to continue his work at Toho, becoming a full-time employee within a year. As an art assistant in the Special Technology Division, Komura worked on various tasks including storyboarding and conceptual drawings, even refining the design of the monster Gabara based on Teizo Toshimitsu's initial sketches. Komura stayed with Toho through its reorganization in 1971, being transferred to the subsidiary company Toho Bijutsu.[1] He was given the opportunity to work as a production designer on the 1973 series Zone Fighter and the 1974 and 1975 films Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla and Terror of Mechagodzilla, but returned to an assistant role for the remainder of his film work. In 1988, upon Toho Bijutsu's merger with Toho Eizo to become Toho Eizo Bijutsu, Komura was selected to head its Special Art Division. In 1994, he was promoted again to head of the Special Art Department (of which the Special Art Division was a part), and served in this position until the department's dissolution in 1998.[4]

Selected filmography

Special effects art assistant

Special effects production designer

Miscellaneous

Designed monsters

References

This is a list of references for Hiroshi Komura. 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. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Godzilla Toho Champion Festival Perfection. ASCII MEDIA WORKS. 29 November 2014. p. 85, 103. ISBN 978-4-04-866999-3.
  2. Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 "フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ" [The War of the Gargantuas]. Movie Reference Room. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 "ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ 南海の大決闘" [Ebirah, Horror of the Deep]. Movie Reference Room. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  4. Nini, Takashi (26 September 2016). The Another History of TOHO Special Effect Department "TOKU-BI", Part 2. Dainippon Kaiga. p. 10. ISBN 978-4-499-23198-5.

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