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Ishirô Honda

Highest Rated: 94% Godzilla (1954)

Lowest Rated: 29% All Monsters Attack (1969)

Birthday: May 7, 1911

Birthplace: Yamagata, Japan

Best known for bringing in a steady income to Japan's Toho Studios in the 1950s and 60s with a series of enjoyably campy sci-fi films featuring oversized monsters which wreak mass destruction upon the urban landscape. Still the most popular of these is Honda's (and the genre's) first and one of the best, "Godzilla" (1954). Honda followed its international success with "Rodan" (1957), "The Mysterians" (1959, a rather more serious effort), "Mothra" (1962), "King Kong vs. Godzilla," "Matango--Fungus of Terror" (both 1963), and the all-star "Destroy All Monsters!" (1966).

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Highest-Rated Movies

94% 89% Godzilla Watchlist
92% 68% Mothra vs. Godzilla
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85% 72% Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
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82% 66% Destroy All Monsters!
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80% 64% Mothra
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77% 59% Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster
Watchlist 75% 56% Rodan Watchlist
67% 86% Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
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63% 42% King Kong Escapes
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52% 56% King Kong vs. Godzilla
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Filmography

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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 67% 86% 1990 Director, Screenwriter Terror of Mechagodzilla 43% 60% 1975 Director Latitude Zero 1970 Director Gezora, Ganime, Kameba: Kessen! Nankai no daikaijû 1970 Director Yog -- Monster From Space 37% 1970 Director All Monsters Attack 29% 18% 1969 Director Destroy All Monsters! 82% 66% 1968 Director, Screenwriter King Kong Escapes 63% 42% 1968 Director War of the Gargantuas 66% 1966 Director, Screenwriter Frankenstein Conquers the World 53% 1966 Director Invasion of Astro-Monster 50% 62% 1965 Director Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster 77% 59% 1964 Director Mothra vs. Godzilla 92% 68% 1964 Director Dagora the Space Monster 38% 1964 Director Attack of the Mushroom People 65% 1963 Director Atragon 36% 1963 Director The Unbelievable Varan 1962 Director Varan the Unbelievable 27% 1962 Director King Kong vs. Godzilla 52% 56% 1962 Director Gorath 38% 1962 Director Mothra 80% 64% 1961 Director Battle in Outer Space 38% 1960 Director The Human Vapor 75% 1960 Director The Mysterians 40% 1959 Director The H-Man 37% 1958 Director
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