Sadamasa Arikawa
Visual Effects
Born 1925-06-17
Died 2005-09-22
Tokyo, Japan
41 credits
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Sadamasa Arikawa (有川 貞昌, Arikawa Sadamasa, June 17, 1925 - September 22, 2005), also known as Teisho Arikawa, was a Japanese special effects director and cinematographer. Arikawa's first film was Daiei's "The Invisible Man Appears" (1949), and he was also the primary cinematographer for the special effects sequences in Toho's tokusatsu films from "Godzilla" (1954) to "The War of the Gargantuas" (1966). A student of original Godzilla special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, Arikawa was promoted to director of special effects for Toho's Godzilla series after Tsuburaya stepped down due to health issues and work with his own company, Tsuburaya Productions, in 1966. Arikawa would serve as special effects director for the Godzilla films "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep" (1966), "Son of Godzilla" (1967), and "Destroy all Monsters" (1968), as well as several episodes of Tsuburaya Productions' television output, including "Ultra Q" (1966), "Ultraman" (1966-1967), and "Ultraseven" (1967-1968). Following his final directorial assignment for Toho with "Space Amoeba" in 1970, Arikawa would leave the company due to the death of Eiji Tsuburaya and the dissolution of Toho's in-house special effects department, and was later employed as director of special effects (above other former Toho staff) on the Shaw Brothers monster film "The Mighty Peking Man" (1977). His final film as director of special effects and final work overall was Taiwanese-Japanese co-production "The Phoenix" (1978). Sadamasa Arikawa passed away due to lung cancer on September 22, 2005, at the age of 80.
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Filmography
Acting
41 credits
Ultraman
Ultraseven
Godzilla
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Godzilla Raids Again
Invasion of Astro-Monster
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Destroy All Monsters
The War of the Gargantuas
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Rodan
Son of Godzilla
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Warrior of Love Rainbowman
Space Amoeba
Godzilla
The Mighty Peking Man
The Three Treasures
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Gorath
The H-Man
Matango
The Mysterians
Dogora
Battle in Outer Space
The Last War
Beast Man Snow Man
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Invisible Man
Motta, the Flying Dracula Monster
Varan
The Crazy Adventure
The Eagle of the Pacific
Siege of Fort Bismarck
Tokyo 1960
Do Your Best! Godzilla
The Phoenix
Directing
1 credit
Other credits
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