# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomoyuki-tanaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:36:50.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomoyuki-tanaka"
name: "Tomoyuki Tanaka"
slug: "tomoyuki-tanaka"
description: "Tomoyuki \"Yūkō\" Tanaka  was a Japanese film producer, best known as the creator of Godzilla. He produced most of the installments in the Godzilla series, beginning in 1954 with Godzilla and ending in 1995 with Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. He was one of the most prolific Japanese producers of all time, having worked on more than 200 films, including over 80 tokusatsu films and six of Akira Kurosawa's films, notably Yojimbo and Kagemusha."
tagline: "Japanese film producer (1910–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tomoyuki_Tanaka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1910-04-26"
deathDate: "1997-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.17
  momentum:             1.471816283924844
  historical:           14.08208533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849083/"
    handle:    "nm0849083"
sources:
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    title: "田中友幸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تومويوكي تاناكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تومويوكى تاناكا (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka"
    title: "Tomoyuki Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka"
    title: "Tomoyuki Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka"
    title: "Tomoyuki Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "تومویوکی تاناکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka_(producteur)"
    title: "Tomoyuki Tanaka (producteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka"
    title: "Tomoyuki Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka"
    title: "Tomoyuki Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E5%8F%8B%E5%B9%B8"
    title: "田中友幸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%EB%82%98%EC%B9%B4_%EB%8F%84%EB%AA%A8%EC%9C%A0%ED%82%A4_(%ED%94%84%EB%A1%9C%EB%93%80%EC%84%9C)"
    title: "다나카 도모유키 (프로듀서)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka"
    title: "Tomoyuki Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%8E%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Танака, Томоюки"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%8E%D0%BA%D1%96"
    title: "Танака Томоюкі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q652228"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4354412"
    title: "Tomoyuki Tanaka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump