Hiroshi Komura
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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
- Mothra (1961)[1]
- The War of the Gargantuas (1966)[2]
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)[3]
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- Latitude Zero (1969)
- All Monsters Attack (1969)[1]
- Space Amoeba (1970)
- Submersion of Japan (1973)
- Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)
- The War in Space (1977)
- Magnitude 7.9 (1980)
- Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984)
- The Return of Godzilla (1984)
- Tokyo Blackout (1987)
- Princess from the Moon (1987)
Special effects production designer
- Zone Fighter (1973) [all 26 episodes]
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) [with Toshiro Aoki]
- Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) [with Toshiro Aoki]
Miscellaneous
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) - Art assistant
Designed monsters
- Gabara (All Monsters Attack) [with Teizo Toshimitsu][1]
References
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