Yoshimitsu Banno was a Japanese film director, best known for the cult-classic Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971), which he directed and co-wrote. Banno was a special guest at G-Fest XII in 2005.
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Filmography 10
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Godzilla vs. Kong
Godzilla
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
The Wizard of Oz
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Techno Police 21C
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Cruel Famine Continent32 credits on file
Television 1
Monarch: Legacy of MonstersConnected to Yoshimitsu 6
Kenpachirō SatsumaAlso in Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
Kaoru YumiAlso in The Last Days of Planet Earth (1981)
Saeko ShimazuAlso in Techno Police 21C (1982)
Katsuhiko SasakiAlso in Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)
Taeko NakanishiAlso in The Wizard of Oz (1982)
Catherine Lough HaggquistAlso in Godzilla (2014)About this person
Yoshimitsu Banno was a Japanese film director, best known for the cult-classic Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971), which he directed and co-wrote. Banno was a special guest at G-Fest XII in 2005. He was an executive producer on Legendary Pictures' Godzilla (2014), and has received posthumous executive producer credit for subsequent projects in the MonsterVerse. He died of a subarachnoid hemorrhage on May 7, 2017 at his home in Kawasaki at the age of 86. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) was dedicated to his memory along with Haruo Nakajima's.
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