Takeo Kita

Takeo Kita Born January 9, 1907 Osaka, Japan Died September 1, 1979 (age 72) Occupation Production designer, producer, representative director and president of Toho Built First work Junjō no Miyako (1933) Notable work Godzilla (1954)

Takeo Kita (北猛夫,   Kita Takeo) was a Japanese production designer, producer, and representative director and president of the Toho film studio Toho Built. His career spanned over four decades, beginning as an assistant for Toho's precursor, Photo Chemical Laboratory, and working in his later days on tokusatsu projects and the films of Ishiro Honda. Kita passed away on September 1, 1979, at the age of 72.

Selected filmography

Production designer

• Godzilla (1954) [with Satoru Chuko]
• Godzilla Raids Again (1955) [with Teruaki Abe]
• The H-Man (1958)
• Monkey Sun (1959)
• Mothra (1961) [with Teruaki Abe]
• The Last War (1961) [with Teruaki Abe]
• Gorath (1962) [with Teruaki Abe]
• King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) [with Teruaki Abe]
• 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)
• Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
• King Kong Escapes (1967)
• Son of Godzilla (1967)
• Destroy All Monsters (1968)
• Latitude Zero (1969)
• All Monsters Attack (1969)
• Space Amoeba (1970)

Executive producer

• Invisible Man (1954)

See also

• Yasuyuki Inoue

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