Tomoyuki Tanaka was born on April 26, 1910 in Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan. He graduated from Kansai University in 1940 and joined Toho Studios the same year. After four years with the company, he became a producer, with his first film production being _Kita no san-nin . Tanaka passed away in Tokyo on April 2, 1997 at the age of 86.
Famous as the creator of Godzilla.
His favorite film was "The Covered Wagon".
The 1998 Godzilla movie with Matthew Broderick was dedicated to Tomoyuki Tanaka.
He studied economics before joining Toho studio in 1940.
He worked on six films with the Academy Award-winning director Akira Kurosawa.
He made more than 220 movies, of which only about one-fourth explore war themes or science fiction.
[on creating the look of Godzilla] We collected many pictures of,dinosaurs. The hardest part was the forehead. It took us 10 days to,decide on the forehead. .
