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Farewell Rabaul
is a black-and-white 1954 cinema of Japan, Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda. 『日本特撮・幻想映画全集』 勁文社、1997 p.50 Cast * Ryō Ikebe * Rentaro Mikuni * Akihiko Hirata * Mariko Okada References External links * http://www.ishirohonda.com/works/195402-saraba/195402-saraba.shtml * http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1954/cd000430.htm * 1954 films Japanese black-and-white films Films directed by Ishirō Honda Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Toho films Japanese war films 1954 war films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishirō Honda
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 44 feature films in a career spanning 59 years. The most internationally successful Japanese filmmaker prior to Hayao Miyazaki, his films have had a significant influence on the film industry. Honda entered the Japanese film industry in 1934, working as the third assistant director on Sotoji Kimura's ''The Elderly Commoner's Life Study''. After 15 years of working on numerous films as an assistant director, he made his directorial debut with the short documentary film ''Ise-Shima'' (1949). Honda's first feature film, ''Aoi Shinju, The Blue Pearl'' (1952), was a critical success in Japan at the time and would lead him to direct three subsequent drama films. In 1954, Honda directed and co-wrote ''Godzilla (1954 film), Godzilla'', which became a box office success in Japan, and was nominated for two Japanese Movie Association awards. Because of the film's commercial success in Japan, it spawned a Godzilla (franchise), multimedia franchise, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
