- In the West, he's most well known as a prolific director of Godzilla movies. However he expressed a very harsh opinion of these films, describing how it felt like opening up an old wound when Toho provided him a VHS copy of one of his Godzilla films. He was never fond of making them, preferring to instead focus on general youth-oriented action, comedy and drama movies. He lambasted the series for the increased focus on monsters and held the opinion that there should have never been any sequels to the original Godzilla (1954). Despite this, he considered it a pleasant surprise to learn that many people have cherished his Godzilla movies from their childhood.
- Worked on documentary films in the late 1990s.
- Co-wrote a sequel to Densô ningen (1960): "Transparent Man vs The Flame Man," although the original was not successful. The film was never made.
- Japanese director of monster (particularly 'Godzilla') movies, who started his career at Toho in 1946.
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