Yoshimitsu Banno
Yoshimitsu Banno was a Japanese film director, best known for the cult-classic Godzilla vs. Hedorah, 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, 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 was dedicated to his memory along with Haruo Nakajima's.
Filmography
Director
- Birth of the Japanese Islands
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah
- Prophecies of Nostradamus
- ''Ninja, the Wonder Boy''
Assistant director
- Throne of Blood
- The Lower Depths
- The Hidden Fortress
- The Bad Sleep Well
- Nippon musekinin jidai
- Nippon musekinin yaro
- Kyomo ware ozorami ari
- Nippon ichi no horafuki otoko
- Hyappatsu hyakuchu
- Taiheiyo kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka
- Nikutai no gakko
- Doto ichiman kairi
- Kureji no musekinin Shimizu Minato
- ''Prophecies of Nostradamus''