Yoshio Suzuki

Yoshio Suzuki Born 1935 Tokyo, Japan Occupation Production designer First work Godzilla (1954) Notable work Mighty Jack (TV 1968)

Yoshio Suzuki (鈴木 儀雄,   Suzuki Yoshio) is a Japanese former production designer. Beginning his career as a part-time modeler on Godzilla (1954) and Godzilla Raids Again (1955), Suzuki worked as an assistant in the camera and art departments at Toho for a time. In 1968, he was hired by Tsuburaya Productions to work as a drama-unit production designer for its tokusatsu television shows, beginning with that year's Mighty Jack. His duties included creating character and weapon designs, most famously designing Ultraman Ace and Ultraman Leo as well as numerous kaiju.

Suzuki was also given sporadic work at Toho through the 1970s, and again in the 1990s, when he oversaw the production design for Takao Okawara's Reiko, Psyche Resurrected (1991) and Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995). Outside of Japan, he joined several former and then-current Toho personnel on the South Korean film The Mighty Peking Man (1977) and North Korean film Pulgasari (1985), working as special effects production designer under directors Sadamasa Arikawa and Teruyoshi Nakano, respectively.

Selected filmography

Assistant modeler

• Godzilla (1954) [uncredited]
• Godzilla Raids Again (1955) [uncredited]

Assistant camera

• Monkey Sun (1959) [uncredited]
• The Three Treasures (1959) [uncredited]

Art assistant

• Samurai Pirate (1963) [uncredited]
• The Adventures of Takla Makan (1966) [uncredited]
• ESPY (1974) [uncredited]

Production designer

• Mighty Jack (TV 1968) [episodes 4-8, 10-13]
• Fight! Mighty Jack (TV 1968) [all 26 episodes]
• Ultraman Ace (TV 1972-1973) [all 52 episodes]
• The Unbalance Zone (TV 1973) [all 13 episodes]
• Ultraman Taro (TV 1973-1974) [all 53 episodes]
• Ultraman Leo (TV 1974-1975) [episodes 1-2]
• Reiko, Psyche Resurrected (1991)
• Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)

Special effects production designer

• The Mighty Peking Man (1978)
• Pulgasari (1985)

Interviewee

• "Godzilla's Creation! Yoshio Suzuki" Toho Video Godzilla Raids Again Blu-ray special feature (2014)

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