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Yoshimitsu Banno
Imabari, Ehime, Shikoku, Japan
Yoshimitsu Banno was a Japanese director, writer, and producer best known for his film, Godzilla vs. Hedorah. Banno joined Toho in 1955, studying under directors such as Mikio Nar…
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Yoshimitsu Banno was a Japanese director, writer, and producer best known for his film, Godzilla vs. Hedorah. Banno joined Toho in 1955, studying under directors such as Mikio Naruse, Kengo Furusawa and Seiji Maruyama. He would begin his career as an assistant director under Akira Kurosawa. Banno would be instrumental in the revival of Godzilla at Legendary Pictures. He would serve as an executive producer for Legendary's Godzilla (2014), and following his death in 2017, received posthumous credits as an executive producer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
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2024
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
TV show Producer
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2021
Godzilla vs. Kong
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Movie In Memory Of
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2014
Godzilla
Movie Executive Producer
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1982
The Wizard of Oz
Movie Executive Producer
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1982
Techno Police 21C
Movie Script
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1981
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Movie Co-Director
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1974
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Movie Co-Director
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1973
Cruel Famine Continent
Movie Director
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1972
Satan's Creature
Movie Director
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1971
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Movie Director
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1968
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
Movie Assistant Director
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1968
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
Movie First Assistant Director
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1967
Young Guy in the South Pacific
Movie Underwater Director of Photography
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1966
The Mad Atlantic
Movie Assistant Director
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1965
Ironfinger
Movie First Assistant Director
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1965
The Retreat from Kiska
Movie Assistant Director
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1964
Tiger Flight
Movie Assistant Director
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1960
The Bad Sleep Well
Movie Assistant Director
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1958
The Hidden Fortress
Movie Assistant Director
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1958
Holiday in Tokyo
Movie Second Assistant Director
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1957
The Lower Depths
Movie Assistant Director
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1957
Throne of Blood
Movie Assistant Director
