He served as the special effects director for Toho's string of financially successful science fiction films that followed, including, Rodan (1956), The Mysterians (1957), Mothra (1961), and King Kong vs. At age fifty-three, he gained international recognition and won his first Japan Technical Award for Special Skill for directing the effects in Ishirō Honda's Godzilla (1954). In 1950, Tsuburaya officially returned to Toho alongside his effects crew from Tsuburaya Visual Effects Laboratories. Thus, he worked at major Japanese studios outside Toho, creating effects for films such as Daiei's The Invisible Man Appears (1949). In 1948, however, Tsuburaya left Toho and created Tsuburaya Special Technology Laboratory with his eldest son Hajime. His groundbreaking effects were believed to be behind the film's major success, and he won an award for his work from the Japan Motion Picture Cinematographers Association. In 1942, Tsuburaya directed the effects for The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya, which became the highest-grossing Japanese film in history upon its release. In 1937, Tsuburaya was employed by Toho and established the company's effects department. His first majorly successful film in effects, The Daughter of the Samurai (1937), remarkably featured the first full-scale rear projection.
In 1935, he worked on the film Princess Kaguya, one of Japan's first major films to incorporate special effects. At the age of thirty-two, Tsuburaya watched King Kong, which inspired him to work in special effects. Thereafter, he worked as an assistant cinematographer on several films, notably Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness. In 1919, Tsuburaya was employed by Japanese cinema pioneer Yoshirō Edamasa and began his career working as an assistant cinematographer on Edamasa's A Tune of Pity. In 1915, he joined Nippon Flying School, but the school closed in 1917 after his teacher was killed in a plane crash.
During his five-decade career, Tsuburaya worked on approximately 250 films and earned six Japan Technical Awards.īorn in Sukagawa in 1901, he expressed interest in film and aviation from an early age. Considered one of the most influential Japanese filmmakers of all time, he is widely regarded as the co-creator of the Godzilla series, as well as the main creator of the Ultraman series. Known as the " Father of Tokusatsu", he pioneered Japan's special effects industry, introducing several technological developments in the production of films. Eiji Tsuburaya ( Japanese: 円谷 英二, Hepburn: Tsuburaya Eiji, J – January 25, 1970) was a Japanese special effects director, film director, cinematographer, and inventor.
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