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Senkichi Taniguchi

Overview

  • Born
    February 19, 1912 · Tokyo, Japan
  • Died
    October 29, 2007 · Tokyo, Japan (pneumonia)

Biography

  • Senkichi Taniguchi was born on February 19, 1912 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for A Man in the Storm (1957), Swift Current (1952) and The Sound of Waves (1954). He was married to Kaoru Yachigusa, Setsuko Wakayama and Yōko Mizuki. He died on October 29, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan.

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      Kaoru Yachigusa(1957 - October 29, 2007) (his death)
      Setsuko Wakayama(1949 - 1956) (divorced)
      Yōko Mizuki(December 1938 - October 1939) (divorced)

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  • He was very close friends with fellow directors Akira Kurosawa and Ishiro Honda.
  • He was the first director assigned to direct "Gojira" (1954) ("Godzilla"). He turned it down and it was assigned to his close friend Ishiro Honda. Honda would go on to be the leading genre director making him the most profitable Japanese director internationally,.

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