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Sadamasa Arikawa
Tokyo, Japan
Sadamasa Arikawa (有川 貞昌, Arikawa Sadamasa, June 17, 1925 - September 22, 2005), also known as Teisho Arikawa, was a Japanese special effects director and cinematographer. Arikawa'…
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Sadamasa Arikawa (有川 貞昌, Arikawa Sadamasa, June 17, 1925 - September 22, 2005), also known as Teisho Arikawa, was a Japanese special effects director and cinematographer. Arikawa's first film was Daiei's "The Invisible Man Appears" (1949), and he was also the primary cinematographer for the special effects sequences in Toho's tokusatsu films from "Godzilla" (1954) to "The War of the Gargantuas" (1966). A student of original Godzilla special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, Arikawa was promoted to director of special effects for Toho's Godzilla series after Tsuburaya stepped down due to health issues and work with his own company, Tsuburaya Productions, in 1966. Arikawa would serve as special effects director for the Godzilla films "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep" (1966), "Son of Godzilla" (1967), and "Destroy all Monsters" (1968), as well as several episodes of Tsuburaya Productions' television output, including "Ultra Q" (1966), "Ultraman" (1966-1967), and "Ultraseven" (1967-1968). Following his final directorial assignment for Toho with "Space Amoeba" in 1970, Arikawa would leave the company due to the death of Eiji Tsuburaya and the dissolution of Toho's in-house special effects department, and was later employed as director of special effects (above other former Toho staff) on the Shaw Brothers monster film "The Mighty Peking Man" (1977). His final film as director of special effects and final work overall was Taiwanese-Japanese co-production "The Phoenix" (1978). Sadamasa Arikawa passed away due to lung cancer on September 22, 2005, at the age of 80.
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1978
The Phoenix
Movie Visual Effects Director
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1977
The Mighty Peking Man
Movie Special Effects
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1977
Godzilla
Movie Special Effects
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1972
Warrior of Love Rainbowman
TV show Special Effects
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1970
Space Amoeba
Movie Visual Effects
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1969
Motta, the Flying Dracula Monster
Movie Special Effects
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1968
Destroy All Monsters
Movie Special Effects
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1967
Son of Godzilla
Movie Special Effects
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1967
Ultraseven
TV show Special Effects
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1967
Do Your Best! Godzilla
Movie Special Effects
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1966
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Movie Special Effects
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1966
The War of the Gargantuas
Movie Special Effects
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1966
Ultraman
TV show Special Effects
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1965
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Movie Special Effects
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1965
The Crazy Adventure
Movie Special Effects
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1965
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Movie Visual Effects Camera
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1964
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Movie VFX Director of Photography
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1964
Dogora
Movie Special Effects
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1964
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Movie Special Effects
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1963
Matango
Movie Special Effects
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1963
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Movie Special Effects
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1963
Siege of Fort Bismarck
Movie VFX Director of Photography
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1962
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Movie Special Effects
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1962
Gorath
Movie Visual Effects Camera
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1961
The Last War
Movie VFX Director of Photography
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1959
Battle in Outer Space
Movie Visual Effects Camera
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1959
The Three Treasures
Movie Visual Effects
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1959
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Movie VFX Director of Photography
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1958
Varan
Movie Special Effects
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1958
The H-Man
Movie Visual Effects
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1957
The Mysterians
Movie Special Effects
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1957
Tokyo 1960
Movie VFX Director of Photography
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1957
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Movie Special Effects
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1957
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Movie Special Effects
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1956
Rodan
Movie VFX Director of Photography
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1956
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Movie Special Effects
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1955
Beast Man Snow Man
Movie Special Effects
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1955
Godzilla Raids Again
Movie VFX Director of Photography
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1954
Invisible Man
Movie VFX Director of Photography
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1954
Godzilla
Movie Special Effects
