Niisan Takahashi(1926-2015)
- Writer
Nisan Takahashi joined Daiei Studios in 1950 by winning one of their
scriptwriting contests. He proceeded, over the next twenty-one years,
to produce dozens of film and TV scripts for the company, most famously
for the entire original GAMERA series (1965-1980). However, at the time
of Daiei's financial collapse in 1971, Takahashi was still owed a great
deal of money by the company. Studio chief Masaichi Nagata drew up some
papers giving Takahashi legal rights to the Gamera character. The new
company that claims rights to Gamera claims Takahashi's rights lapsed
when Daiei fell, but nonetheless, the writer was able to publish his
very own Gamera novel in 1995, in defiance of the new series of films
that began that year. Though reportedly a recluse, he remains a
prolific writer to this day.
