
Known for
Visual Effects
Born
July 7, 1901
Birthplace
日本,京都府
Died
January 25, 1970 (aged 68)
Eiji Tsuburaya ranks alongside Willis H. O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen as one of the great visionary SFX masters of twentieth-century fantasy cinema. Best remembered as the amazing special effects genius behind the "Godzilla" series of monster films commencing in 1954, he also contributed effects to a host of other Japanese monster / fantasy / science fiction / drama / propaganda films for over four decades.
Eiji Tsuburaya had a keen interest in the cinema from a young age, and legend has it that he acquired a second-hand movie projector when he was only ten years old, and pulled it apart and put it back together with relative ease. He began work as a cinematographer in Kyoto around 1919 a...
2026
2022
Original Story
2020
Original Story
2019
Original Concept
2018
2017
Original Concept
2013
1993
Original Story
1989
Producer, Production Supervisor, Creator
1979
Executive Producer
1977
Special Effects
1977
Visual Effects Director, Special Effects, Story, Visual Effects
1973
Special Effects
1972
Producer
1970
Special Effects Supervisor, Special Effects
1969
Special Effects Supervisor, Special Effects, Editorial Consultant
1969
Special Effects
1969
Special Effects, Visual Effects
1969
Producer, Production Supervisor, Creator
1969
Special Effects
1968
1968
Special Effects Supervisor
1968
1967
Special Effects, Special Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Supervisor
1967