Toshiro Aoki
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Toshiro Aoki (青木 利郎 Aoki Toshirō) was a Japanese production designer. Hired by Akira Watanabe as a part-time Toho employee in 1959, his first job was as an art assistant on The Three Treasures.[1][3] He took up a full-time position after just three months,[2] and worked under special effects production designer Yasuyuki Inoue through the 1960s. After Toho's Art Department was dissolved and replaced with the subsidiary company Toho Bijutsu in 1970, Inoue left the company in 1971, allowing Aoki to succeed him. Aoki subsequently took up SFX production design duties on Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) and Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973), as well as Tsuburaya Productions' TV series Return of Ultraman (1971) and Ultraman Ace (1972), for which he was subcontracted.
When Inoue returned to Toho Bijutsu in 1973 he and Aoki split assignments, with Inoue taking on films like Submersion of Japan (1973) and Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974), and Aoki taking Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) and Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975), among others. Aoki was promoted to head of Toho Bijutsu's Special Art Section in 1982, and continued in this role until 1987,[4] when he was transferred to Toho Real Estate to oversee the construction of the Hibiya Chanter building in Tokyo. Aoki retired from Toho in 1996, and passed away on December 31, 2018.[2]
Selected filmography
- Note: All work under the first two headings was uncredited.
Special effects art assistant
- The Three Treasures (1959)[1][3]
- The War of the Gargantuas (1966)[5]
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)[6]
- Son of Godzilla (1967)[7]
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)[8]
- Latitude Zero (1969)[9]
- All Monsters Attack (1969)[1][10]
- Space Amoeba (1970)[1][11]
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)[1]
- Submersion of Japan (1973)[12]
- Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)[13]
Special effects set dresser
- Samurai Pirate (1963)[14]
- Atragon (1963)[15]
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)[16]
Special effects production designer
- Return of Ultraman (TV 1971-1972) [episodes 26-27]
- Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
- Ultraman Ace (TV 1972-1973) [episodes 1-24][a]
- Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
- Ultraman Taro (TV 1973-1974) [episodes 1-3, 6-8, 11-21]
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) [with Hiroshi Komura]
- ESPY (1974) [uncredited][17]
- Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) [with Hiroshi Komura]
Interviewee
- Bringing Godzilla Down to Size (2008)
- SciFi JAPAN TV (TV 2012-2014) [episode 10; with Hiromasa Shirai, Jiro Shirasaki]
Miscellaneous
- Orochi: Strikes Again (1985) - Equipment cooperation
Notes
- ↑ Episodes 5-22 with Akihiko Takahashi.
References
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