Teruyoshi Nakano
Native name中野 昭慶
Birth dateOctober 9, 1935
Birth placeAndong, Manchukuo[1]
Death dateJune 27, 2022 (aged 86)[2]
OccupationSpecial effects director
Years active1959–2001

Teruyoshi "Shokei" Nakano[3] (中野 昭慶, Nakano Teruyoshi, October 9, 1935 – June 27, 2022) was a Japanese special effects director. He is best known for helming the special effects of the last six Showa Godzilla films and The Return of Godzilla (1984).

Early life

Nakano was born on October 9, 1935 in Andong, Manchukuo (now Dandong, Liaoning, China).[1] His father worked for an affiliate of South Manchuria Railway called International Transport.[4] His childhood was characterized by wealth, and he attended Andō Yamato Arimichi National Elementary School.[5] His family was transported to Niihama, Ehime, Japan after Japan's defeat in 1945, where he graduated elementary school before moving to Kyoto two years later.[6][7]

Filmography

Film and television

YearTitleSFX directorAssistant SFX directorNotes
1956Night SchoolAssistant director (trainee)
1959Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
1960The Secret of the Telegian
Storm Over the Pacific
1962Gorath
King Kong vs. Godzilla
1963Matango
Atragon
1964Mothra vs. Godzilla
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1965Frankenstein Conquers the World
Invasion of Astro-Monster
1966The War of the Gargantuas
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
1967King Kong Escapes
1968Destroy All Monsters
1969All Monsters AttackWith Ishirō Honda;
Uncredited
1970The Vampire Doll
1971Battle of Okinawa
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Lake of DraculaUncredited
1972Godzilla vs. Gigan
1973Zone FighterTV series
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Submersion of Japan
1974Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Prophecies of Nostradamus
ESPY
Evil of Dracula
1975Terror of Mechagodzilla
Conflagration
1977The War in Space
1980Deathquake
1981Imperial Navy
1984The Return of Godzilla
1985Pulgasari
1987Tokyo Blackout
Princess from the Moon

References

  1. ^ Nakano & Someya 2014, p. 26.
  2. ^ "特技監督の中野昭慶さんが死去 「日本沈没」「ゴジラ」の特撮" (in Japanese). Yahoo! Japan. July 5, 2022. Archived July 5, 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  3. ^ Galbraith IV 1998, p. 39.
  4. ^ Nakamura et al. 2014, p. 100.
  5. ^ Nakano & Someya 2014, pp. 27–28.
  6. ^ Tanaka 1983, p. 542.
  7. ^ Nakano & Someya 2014, p. 48.
  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (1998). Monsters are Attacking Tokyo!. Feral House. ISBN 978-0922915477.
  • Nakamura, Tetsu; Shiraishi, Masahiko; Aita, Tetsuo; Tomoi, Taketo; Shimazaki, Jun; Maruyama, Takeshi; Shimizu, Toshifumi; Hayakawa, Masaru (2014). ゴジラ 東宝チャンピオンまつり パーフェクション [Godzilla Toho Champion Festival Perfection] (in Japanese). Kadokawa/ASCII Media Works. ISBN 978-4048669993.
  • Nakano, Teruyoshi & Someya, Katsuki (2014). 特技監督 中野昭慶 [Director of Special Effects: Teruyoshi Nakano] (in Japanese). Second ed. Wides Publishing. ISBN 978-4898302804.
  • Tanaka, Tomoyuki (1983). 東宝特撮映画全史 [The Complete History of Toho Special Effects Movies] (in Japanese). Toho Publishing. ISBN 4-924609-00-5.