Motoyoshi Tomioka
Motoyoshi Tomioka (富岡 素敬 Tomioka Motoyoshi), also credited in English as Sokei Tomioka, Mototaka Tomioka, and Michael Tomioka, was a Japanese cinematographer who worked on numerous Toho tokusatsu films during the Shōwa period. A student of Eiji Tsuburaya, Tomioka joined Toho as one of his cameramen on the special effects unit, operating the second of three cameras. Though his title in the company was "assistant cameraman" for the first years of his employment, he was promoted to a full cameraman with 1961's Mothra;[1] he began receiving onscreen credit under lead cameraman Sadamasa Arikawa the following year on Gorath. Upon Arikawa's promotion to special effects director in 1966, Tomioka moved up to first camera and second was filled by Yoichi Manoda.[1] Tomioka also occasionally worked outside of special effects, namely on All Monsters Attack (1969) and Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975), which used largely the same staff between their human and special effects sequences.
Selected filmography
Second special effects cinematographer
- Godzilla (1954) [uncredited][2]
- Godzilla Raids Again (1955) [uncredited][3]
- The Legend of the White Serpent (1956) [uncredited][4]
- The Mysterians (1957) [uncredited][5]
- The Last War (1961) [uncredited][6]
- Mothra (1961) [uncredited][1]
- Gorath (1962)
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
- Matango (1963)
- Samurai Pirate (1963
- Atragon (1963)
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
- Dogora (1964)
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
- Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965)
- Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
- The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
- Space Amoeba (1970) [uncredited][7]
Special effects cinematographer
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
- King Kong Escapes (1967)
- Son of Godzilla (1967)
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- Latitude Zero (1969)
- Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
- Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
- Submersion of Japan (1973)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
- Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)
- ESPY (1974)
- The Mighty Peking Man (1977)
Cinematographer
- All Monsters Attack (1969)
- Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
- The Phoenix (1978) [as Michael Tomioka]
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