Motoyoshi Tomioka
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Motoyoshi Tomioka (富岡 素敬 Tomioka Motoyoshi), also miscredited in English as Sokei Tomioka, was a Japanese cinematographer who worked on numerous Toho tokusatsu films during the Shōwa period. Training at the Eiji Tsuburaya Special Effects Research Institute,[1] Tomioka joined Toho as one of Tsuburaya's assistant cameramen. He was officially promoted to cinematographer with 1961's Mothra, working second to Sadamasa Arikawa.[1] Upon Arikawa's promotion to special effects director in 1966, Tomioka moved up to first camera, with Yoichi Manoda taking second.[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
Assistant 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]
Special effects cinematographer
- Mothra (1961) [uncredited; with Sadamasa Arikawa][1]
- Gorath (1962) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Matango (1963) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Samurai Pirate (1963) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Atragon (1963) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Dogora (1964) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- The War of the Gargantuas (1966) [with Sadamasa Arikawa]
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) [with Yoichi Manoda]
- King Kong Escapes (1967) [with Yoichi Manoda]
- Son of Godzilla (1967) [with Yoichi Manoda]
- Destroy All Monsters (1968) [with Yoichi Manoda]
- Latitude Zero (1969) [with Yoichi Manoda]
- Space Amoeba (1970)
- Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
- Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
- Submersion of Japan (1973)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) [with Takeshi Yamamoto]
- Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) [with Takeshi Yamamoto]
- ESPY (1974)
- The Mighty Peking Man (1977)
Cinematographer
- All Monsters Attack (1969)
- Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
- The Phoenix (1978) [as Michael Tomioka]
References
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