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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% 73% 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

Movies

Credit
67% 86% Akira Kurosawa's Dreams Director,
Screenwriter 		$1.7M 1990
43% 60% Terror of Mechagodzilla Director - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Latitude Zero Director - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gezora, Ganime, Kameba: Kessen! Nankai no daikaijû Director - 1970
No Score Yet 37% Yog -- Monster From Space Director - 1970
29% 18% All Monsters Attack Director - 1969
82% 66% Destroy All Monsters! Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1968
63% 42% King Kong Escapes Director - 1968
No Score Yet 66% War of the Gargantuas Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1966
No Score Yet 53% Frankenstein Conquers the World Director - 1966
77% 59% Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster Director - 1965
50% 62% Invasion of Astro-Monster Director - 1965
92% 68% Mothra vs. Godzilla Director - 1964
No Score Yet 38% Dagora the Space Monster Director - 1964
No Score Yet 65% Attack of the Mushroom People Director - 1963
No Score Yet 38% Atragon Director - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Unbelievable Varan Director - 1962
No Score Yet 28% Varan the Unbelievable Director - 1962
52% 56% King Kong vs. Godzilla Director - 1962
No Score Yet 38% Gorath Director - 1962
80% 64% Mothra Director - 1961
No Score Yet 75% The Human Vapor Director - 1960
No Score Yet 38% Battle in Outer Space Director - 1960
No Score Yet 44% The Mysterians Director - 1959
No Score Yet 37% The H-Man Director - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Varan the Unbelievable Director - 1958
75% 56% Rodan Director - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chikyu Boeigun Director - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Be Happy, These Two Lovers Director - 1957
85% 73% Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Director,
Screenwriter 		$148.9K 1956
No Score Yet 14% Half Human Director - 1955
94% 89% Godzilla Director,
Writer 		- 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Farewell Rabaul Director - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Frankenstein vs. Baragon Director -