Masaaki Tezuka

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Masaaki Tezuka speaking for an interview with SciFi Japan
Born January 24, 1955
Tochigi, Japan
Occupation Director, screenwriter
First work The Tomb of the Wild Chrysanthemum (1977)
Notable work Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)
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Masaaki Tezuka (手塚 昌明,   Tezuka Masaaki) is a Japanese director. He became interested in filmmaking after seeing King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) at age 7. Once he graduated from Nihon University, he was hired as an assistant director for Katsumi Nishikawa on the made-for-TV film The Tomb of the Wild Chrysanthemum (1977).[1] He first crossed paths with Toho later that year, when he worked in a similar capacity on Nishikawa's film Sweet Revenge. Tezuka would continue on as an assistant director for over 20 years, most frequently for Toho's Kon Ichikawa, whom he was first assigned to on Ancient City (1980). Despite this, Tezuka remained freelance until 1994, when he was hired at Toho Pictures following his work as Ichikawa's first AD on 47 Ronin.[1]

Tezuka finally made his directorial debut with the second Millennium Godzilla film, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000). The following year, he led an auxiliary special effects unit on Shusuke Kaneko and Makoto Kamiya's Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. Though he departed from Toho Pictures in 2002,[1] the company enlisted him to direct Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) and its direct sequel Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003), also co-writing the latter. Tezuka has since directed four more films—Kadokawa's Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (2005) and Rescue Wings (2008), the direct-to-video Toho kaiju film Go! Godman (2008), and the documentary Blue Impulse (2014)—and reunited with Ichikawa as an associate director on his final film, The Inugamis (2006).

Tezuka published his memoir, Godzilla x Kon Ichikawa: Masaaki Tezuka Works 1977-2006, through Hobby Japan in 2024.

Selected filmography

Assistant director

First assistant director

Director

Actor

Miscellaneous

Selected bibliography

Gallery

Trivia

References

This is a list of references for Masaaki Tezuka. 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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "INTERVIEW: MASAAKI TEZUKA AND WATARU MIMURA". Henshin!Online. Archived from the original on 11 February 2005.
  2. Kimura 2016, p. 75.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kimura 2016, p. 77
  4. Matsui 2004, p. 55.
  5. Kimura 2016, p. 49.

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