Yoshimitsu Banno
Producer, Regisseur, Schrijver
30 maart 1931 — 7 mei 2017 (86 years)
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.
Known For
Cinematografie
| 2024 | Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | |
| 2021 | Godzilla vs. Kong · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Godzilla · as Executive Producer |
| 1982 | The Wizard of Oz · as Executive Producer |
| 1982 | Techno Police 21C · as Executive Producer |
| 1982 | The Wizard of Oz · as Screenplay |
| 1982 | |
| 1974 | Prophecies of Nostradamus · as Screenplay |
| 1974 | Prophecies of Nostradamus · as Co-Director |
| 1971 | Godzilla vs. Hedorah · as Lyricist |
| 1968 | Zoku shacho hanjôki · as Assistant Director |
| 1968 | Shachô hanjôki · as First Assistant Director |
| 1967 | Judo Champion · as Underwater Director Of Photography |
| 1965 | Ironfinger · as First Assistant Director |
| 1965 | The Retreat from Kiska · as Assistant Director |
| 1960 | The Bad Sleep Well · as Assistant Director |
| 1958 | The Hidden Fortress · as Assistant DirectorOp Plex |
| 1957 | The Lower Depths · as Assistant Director |
| 1957 | Throne of Blood · as Assistant DirectorOp Plex |