Masaichi Nagata

Masaichi Nagata Born January 21, 1906 Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Died October 24, 1985 (aged 79) Tokyo, Japan Occupation Daiei president, film producer First work The Downfall of Osen (1934) Notable work Rashomon (1951)

Masaichi Nagata (永田 雅一,   Nagata Masaichi) was a Japanese businessman and the president of Daiei from 1947 until the company's bankruptcy in 1971. The self-proclaimed creator of Gamera, he produced the monster's second film Gamera vs. Barugon, with the remainder of the Showa Gamera films produced instead by his son Hidemasa Nagata. He was also responsible for producing a handful of other tokusatsu films, notably the Daimajin trilogy. Nagata's other ventures included ownership of the Daiei Stars professional baseball team and the famous racehorse Tokino Minoru.

Selected filmography

Executive producer

• Warning from Space (1956)
• The Ogre of Oeyama (1960)
• Buddha (1961)
• Killer Whale (1962)
• Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
• Daimajin (1966)
• Return of Daimajin (1966)
• Wrath of Daimajin (1966)

Gallery

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  Portrait of
  Masaichi Nagata

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  Masaichi Nagata (right) with his racehorse Tokino Minoru at the 1951 Tokyo Yushun

Videos

Nagata accepting an Oscar for Gate of Hell in 1955 Nagata accepting an Oscar for Gate of Hell in 1955

Trivia

• No producer was credited in the original Japanese version of Gamera the Giant Monster; the American re-edit Gammera the Invincible credits Masaichi, while Sandy Frank's English dub credits his son Hidemasa.
• A fictional character based on Nagata named Nagano appeared in the 2021 3Y Films production Nezura 1964, portrayed by Heisei Gamera trilogy star Yukijiro Hotaru.

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