Fumio Yanoguchi Explained

Fumio Yanoguchi
Birth Date:	29 September 1917
Occupation:	recording engineer
Nationality:	Japanese

was a Japanese recording engineer known for his work with film director Akira Kurosawa.

Yanoguchi began working with Kurosawa on the 1949 film Stray Dog, and afterwards began recording the sound for the vast majority of Kurosawa's films until dying late in the production of Ran in 1985. He won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Sound Recording for the 1952 film Ikiru.^[1] Yanoguchi also worked on Godzilla films such as Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)^[2] and Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972).^[3]

Filmography

His work includes:^[4]

Notes and References

1. Stuart Galbraith IV, The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography, The Scarecrow Press, 2008, p. 88.
2. Steve Ryfle, Japan's Favorite Mon-star: The Unauthorized Biography of 'The Big G, ECW Press, 1998, p. 355, .
3. Ryfle, p. 359.
4. Web site: Fumio Yanoguchi . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202033826/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baa9ace27 . dead . 2 February 2017 . 19 January 2017 . British Film Institute.