Sadamasa Arikawa
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Sadamasa Arikawa (有川
Arikawa's final film for Toho was 1970's Space Amoeba,[a] after which he parted with the company due to Tsuburaya's death and the subsequent dissolution of Toho's in-house special effects department.[1] Another of Tsuburaya's students, Teruyoshi Nakano, took over effects on the Godzilla series in 1971. Arikawa transferred to International Television Films, Inc., through which he would ultimately collaborate with Toho again on the 1972 television series Warrior of Love Rainbowman. He also worked on two foreign films in the late 1970s: the 1977 Hong Kong film The Mighty Peking Man, for which he worked alongside several other former Toho staff, and the 1978 Taiwanese film The Phoenix. Arikawa passed away at age 80 due to lung cancer on September 22, 2005.
Selected filmography
Special effects cinematographer
- Godzilla (1954) [uncredited]
- Invisible Man (1954) [uncredited]
- Godzilla Raids Again (1955) [uncredited]
- Half Human (1955) [uncredited]
- The Legend of the White Serpent (1956) [uncredited]
- Rodan (1956) [uncredited]
- The Mysterians (1957) [with Shuzaburo Araki]
- The H-Man (1958) [with Shuzaburo Araki]
- Varan (1958) [with Shuzaburo Araki]
- Monkey Sun (1959) [with Shuzaburo Araki]
- The Three Treasures (1959)
- Battle in Outer Space (1959) [with Shuzaburo Araki]
- The Secret of the Telegian (1960)
- The Human Vapor (1960)
- Mothra (1961)
- The Youth and His Amulet (1961)
- The Last War (1961)
- Gorath (1961) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- Matango (1963) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- Samurai Pirate (1963) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- Atragon (1963) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- Dogora (1964) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
- The War of the Gargantuas (1966) [with Motoyoshi Tomioka]
Director of special effects
- Ultra Q (TV 1966) [episodes 2, 17-19]
- Ultraman (TV 1966-1967) [episodes 37-38]
- Monster Booska (TV 1966-1967) [episodes 29, 31, 36, 38]
- Ultraseven (TV 1967-1968) [episodes 4, 6]
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)[2]
- Son of Godzilla (1967)
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- Mighty Jack (TV 1968) [episode 11]
- Fight! Mighty Jack (TV 1968) [episodes 1, 4-6, 9-10, 14-15, 19-20, 23-24]
- Space Amoeba (1970)
- Warrior of Love Rainbowman (TV 1972) [recurring]
- Rainbowman: The Professional Killers (1973) [theatrical episode]
- The Mighty Peking Man (1977) [uncredited]
- The Phoenix (1978) [as Sam Arikawa]
Gallery
Arikawa (second from right) during filming of Godzilla (1954)
Arikawa (center) directing Haruo Nakajima and Hiroshi Sekita for Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Arikawa (far left) in a publicity photo for Destroy All Monsters with Ishiro Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Tomoyuki Tanaka
Arikawa with Masao Fukazawa in the Minilla suit on the set of Son of Godzilla
Arikawa gives instructions to Masao Fukazawa on the set of Son of Godzilla
See also
External links
Notes
- ↑ Episode 15 of the Toho co-production Warrior of Love Rainbowman, which featured special effects by Arikawa, was blown up for a theatrical release at the Summer 1973 Toho Champion Festival.
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