Yoshimitsu Banno Explained

Yoshimitsu Banno
Birth Date:	30 March 1931
Birth Place:	Imabari, Ehime, Japan
Death Place:	Kawasaki, Japan^[1]
Native Name:	坂野 義光
Native Name Lang:	Japanese
Occupation:	Director, screenwriter, producer
Nationality:	Japanese

^{[2] [3]} 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 subarachnoid hemorrhage in 2017. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) was dedicated to his memory along with Haruo Nakajima's.

Filmography

Director

• Birth of the Japanese Islands (1970)
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
• Ninja, the Wonder Boy (1985) (TV Series)

Assistant director

• Throne of Blood (1957)
• The Lower Depths (1957)
• The Hidden Fortress (1958)
• The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
• Nippon musekinin jidai (The Irresponsible Age of Japan) (1962)
• Nippon musekinin yaro (The Irresponsible Guys of Japan) (1962)
• Kyomo ware ozorami ari (1964)
• Nippon ichi no horafuki otoko (Japan's Number One Braggart Man) (1964)
• Hyappatsu hyakuchu (1965)
• Taiheiyo kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka (A Miraculous Military Operation in the Pacific Ocean: Kiska) (1965)
• Nikutai no gakko (School of the Flesh) (1965)
• Doto ichiman kairi (The Mad Atlantic) (1966)
• Kureji no musekinin Shimizu Minato (The Boss of Pickpocket Bay) (1966)
• Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)

Writer

• Techno Police 21c (1982)
• The Wizard of Oz (1982)
• Prophecies of Nostradamus (Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen) (1974)
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)

Executive producer

• Godzilla (2014)
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) (posthumous)
• Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) (posthumous)
• (2023) (posthumous)
• (2024) (posthumous)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster' Director Yoshimitsu Banno Dies at 86. Blair. Gavin J. May 12, 2017. The Hollywood Reporter. May 13, 2019.
2. Web site: Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker: Remembering Yoshimitsu Banno. Brett. May 9, 2017. Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker. May 9, 2017.
3. Web site: May 10, 2017. 【訃報】坂野義光氏＝映画監督 : 社会 : 読売新聞（YOMIURI ONLINE）. live. May 13, 2017. Yomiuri Shimbun. https://web.archive.org/web/20170513020923/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/obit/20170510-OYT1T50050.html.