Shōgo Tomiyama
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Shōgo Tomiyama (富山省吾, Tomiyama Shōgo) is a Japanese film producer. He is best known for producing all of the Godzilla films from the 1990s onward.[1][2]
[edit] Biography
Tomiyama began his career working as an assistant on Godzilla films.[3] An aspiring producer, he took the reins of the Godzilla series following Tomoyuki Tanaka's death. Tomiyama's persistence kept the series alive following its rough start near the turn of the millennium. After Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) failed at the box office, Tomiyama switched gears and handed the series over to director Shusuke Kaneko, who churned out the highly successful Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack in 2001. By 2003, though, the series had once again gone stagnant at the box office disappointment of Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.. Tomiyama had big things in store for the following year, though, as he stepped up to become the president of Toho along with co-writing and producing the most expensive Godzilla film to emerge from Toho: Godzilla: Final Wars (2004).[4] Preceding the film's release, Tomiyama commented that Godzilla would go into a decade-long retirement following the release of the 2004 film.
[edit] Filmography
As producer
- Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
- Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991)
- Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
- Yamato Takeru (film) (1994)
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
- Rebirth of Mothra (1996)
- Rebirth of Mothra II (1997)
- Abduction (1997)
- Rebirth of Mothra III (1998)
- Godzilla 2000 (1999)
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
- Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
- Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
[edit] References
- ^ Lev, Michael A. (1998) "Fillmakers Revisit the Old Stomping Grounds", Chicago Tribune, 18 May 1998
- ^ "Godzilla Fights A Final Battle", The New York Times, 16 July 1995, retrieved 2011-08-15
- ^ Dawson, Angela (2000) "46 years of stomping with Godzilla", San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 August 2000, p. F5
- ^ "Godzilla gets Hollywood fame star", BBC, 30 November 2004, retrieved 2011-08-15
