Eiji Tsuburaya was a Japanese special effects director, filmmaker, and cinematographer. A co-creator of the Godzilla and Ultraman franchises, he is considered one of the most important and influential figures in the history of cinema.
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Tsuburaya with his mother Sei, c. 1902. Sei died of illness shortly after giving birth to her second son.
![Tsuburaya riding his iron shooting crane in 1934. An adaptation of this crane is still used worldwide today.[28]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Eiji_Tsuburaya_1934.jpg/1280px-Eiji_Tsuburaya_1934.jpg)
Tsuburaya riding his iron shooting crane in 1934. An adaptation of this crane is still used worldwide today.[28]
Publicity still of geisha singer Ichimaru playing the female lead in Tsuburaya's first histrionic film, Folk Song Collection: Oichi of Torioi Village.
Tsuburaya's effects in The Invisible Man Appears (1949) were intended to be superior to those in Universal's The Invisible Man film series
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Eiji Tsuburaya was a Japanese special effects director, filmmaker, and cinematographer. A co-creator of the Godzilla and Ultraman franchises, he is considered one of the most important and influential figures in the history of cinema. Tsuburaya is known as the "Father of Tokusatsu", having pioneered Japan's special effects industry and introduced several technological developments in film productions. In a career spanning five decades, Tsuburaya worked on approximately 250 films - including globally renowned features directed by Ishirō Honda, Hiroshi Inagaki, and Akira Kurosawa - and earned six Japan Technical Awards.
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