Ishiro Honda
Ishiro Honda (本 多 猪 四郎), Born May 7, 1911 in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture was a famous japanese director. Father of famous sf movies “Godzilla” and “Mothra”, depicting the stigma and trauma of postwar Japan (atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Honda has also worked with the famous Akira Kurosawa on numerous occasions, and would actually come out of a self imposed retirement to direct several films with Kurosawa, including segments in his 1990 film Dreams. He died February 28, 1993 in Tokyo.
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