Eiji Tsuburaya filmography

Tsuburaya on his shooting crane in 1934

Eiji Tsuburaya (1901–1970) was a Japanese special effects director and filmmaker who worked on roughly 250 films throughout his five-decade career.^[1] Having pioneered and popularized the special effects sector of the Japanese film industry, he is popularly known as the "Father of Tokusatsu".^[2][a] Tsuburaya started his career in the Japanese film industry as a cinematographer for several successful dramas and jidaigeki (Japanese historical drama) films in the early 1920s.^[4] His directorial debut was the propaganda documentary film Three Thousand Miles Across the Equator, which he filmed in the Pacific Ocean on the Asama for most of 1935. Following the completion of photography on this film, he worked as the cinematographer and had his debut as special effects director on Princess Kaguya (1935). It was one of Japan's first major productions to feature special effects.^[5][6] The next year, Tsuburaya made his dramatic directorial debut with the release of Folk Song Collection: Oichi of Torioi Village and had substantial success staging the special effects for Arnold Fanck's The Daughter of the Samurai (released 1937).^[7]

Tsuburaya left his job in Kyoto and moved to Tokyo in order to form the newly established company Toho's special effects division in late 1937. The following year, he was assigned to create effects for The Abe Clan and directed and filmed the unreleased propaganda musical The Song of Major Nanjo; two years later, he directed and shot the documentary motion picture entitled The Imperial Way of Japan and shot the war film Navy Bomber Squadron.^[8] In 1942, Tsuburaya supervised the effects for the Kajirō Yamamoto-directed war epic The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya, which became the highest-grossing Japanese film in history.^[9] His efforts were regarded as a significant factor in its major critical and commercial success and earned him the Technical Research Award from the Japan Motion Picture Cinematographers Association.^[10][11] Tsuburaya was purged from employment at Toho by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in 1948.^[12][8] He created his own independent effects company and worked on films by other major film companies, including Daiei Film's The Invisible Man Appears (1949), which was Japan's first science fiction film. Tsuburaya returned to Toho in 1950, and subsequently worked on their films Escape at Dawn (1950), The Lady of Musashino (1951), The Skin of the South, and The Man Who Came to Port (both 1952), Eagle of the Pacific (1953), and Farewell Rabaul (1954), with the latter four being his first collaborations with director Ishirō Honda.^[13]

In 1954, Tsuburaya directed the special effects for Hiroshi Inagaki's jidaigeki epic Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto and Honda's kaiju film Godzilla. For the latter major critically and commercially successful film, he achieved his first Japan Technical Award for Special Skill and attained international recognition.^[14][15] Two years later, he directed the effects for Shirō Toyoda's The Legend of the White Serpent and Honda's Rodan,^[16] with Rodan winning him his second Japan Technical Award.^[14] In response to recent popular alien invasion science fiction films, Toho assigned Tsuburaya to direct the effects for Honda's big-budget epic The Mysterians (1956) and he won another Japan Technical Award for his work.^[17] Three years later, Tsuburaya earned another Japan Technical Award for his effects on Inagaki's $1 million^[18] epic The Three Treasures.^[14] Later, he worked on the tremendously successful tokusatsu films: Mothra, The Last War (both 1961), King Kong vs. Godzilla, and Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (both 1962). In 1963, he earned the Japan Technical Award for his special effects work on The Lost World of Sinbad;^[14] the following year he made the effects for Honda's Mothra vs. Godzilla, often regarded as his best kaiju film.^[19] Also that year, he began preproduction on his recently founded company's first series that aired on Japanese television in 1966, under the title Ultra Q, and created the special effects for Frank Sinatra's war epic None but the Brave.^[20] His efforts on the 1965 war film Retreat from Kiska [ja] won him another Japan Technical Award for Special Skill and he gained the same award the following year for the same position in Honda's Invasion of Astro-Monster (also 1965).^[14]

Because Ultra Q was a tremendous success during its release, Tsuburaya moved on to develop and supervise a follow-up titled Ultraman.^[21] Ultraman was broadcast from 1966 to 1967 and was even more successful than its predecessor. These programs spanned a franchise that is still majorly popular and ongoing today.^[20] After working on Honda's influential kaiju film The War of the Gargantuas (1966),^[22] he began being credited as the "special effects supervisor" on the Godzilla films and continued receiving this credit until Destroy All Monsters (1968).^[23] His final official theatrical film credit, the Seiji Maruyama-directed war epic Battle of the Japan Sea, was released in August 1969 and became the second-highest-grossing Japanese film of 1969;^[24] he received a ceremonial title as effects director on Honda's All Monsters Attack later that year. In December of the same year, he completed work on Birth of the Japanese Islands [ja], an audiovisual exhibit for the Expo '70.^[25] Tsuburaya planned to work on Space Amoeba, Japan Airplane Guy, and Princess Kaguya, but died in Itō, Shizuoka on January 25, 1970, a day before his scheduled return to Tokyo to begin work on the projects.^[26][2]

Film

Film work by Eiji Tsuburaya

Year	Title	Credited as				Notes	Ref(s)
		Special effects director	Cinematographer	Director	Special effects supervisor
1919	A Tune of Pity[b]	No	Assistant	No	No		[27]
1920	Tombs of the Island[c]	No	Assistant	No	No
1925	The Hunchback of Enmei'in Temple[d]	No	Yes	No	No		[28][29]
1926	A Page of Madness[e]	No	Assistant	No	No		[30]
1927	Children's Swordplay[f]	No	Yes	No	No		[29]
	The Bat Copybook[g]	No	Yes	No	No
	Mad Blade Under the Moon[h]	No	Yes	No	No
	Record of the Tragic Swords of the Tenpo Era[i]	No	Yes	No	No
1928	Sayamaro the Thief[j]	No	Yes	No	No
1929	Light and Shadow[k]	No	Yes	No	No
	A Tale of the Occult[l]	No	Yes	No	No
1930	Sanji, the Wild Fox[m]	No	Yes	No	No
1931	A Wolf Howls in the Blizzard[n]	No	Yes	No	No
1932	Fierce Attack at Takadanobaba[o]	No	Yes	No	No
	Ghost Story: The Book of Evening Calm[p]	No	Yes	No	No
1933	Drizzle in Gion[q]	No	Yes	No	No
1934	Astaro Descends Mt. Akagi[r]	No	Yes	No	No		[31]
	Fusaemon Araki: Lord of Iga[s]	No	Yes	No	No
1935	The Chorus of a Million[t]	No	Yes	No	No		[32][31]
	Princess Kaguya[u]	Yes	Yes	No	No		[33][31]
1936	Three Thousand Miles Across the Equator[v]	No	Yes	Yes	No	Documentary	[34]
	Folk Song Collection: Oichi of Torioi Village[w]	No	No	Yes	No		[31]
1937	The Daughter of the Samurai[x]	Yes	No	No	No		[35][36]
1938	The Abe Clan[y]	Yes	No	No	No		[31]
	The Song of Major Nangō[z]	No	Yes	Yes	No	Unreleased
1940	The Imperial Way of Japan[aa]	No	Yes	Yes	No
	Navy Bomber Squadron [ja][ab]	Yes	No	No	No
	The Burning Sky[ac]	Yes	No	No	No		[37]
	Son Gokū [ja][ad]	No	Special effects	No	No	Two-part film; with Bunshiro Okuno	[38]
1941	Moon Over Shanghai[ae]	Yes	No	No	No		[31]
1942	Bouquet for the South Pacific[af]	Yes	No	No	No
	Koharu's Play[ag]	Yes	No	No	No		[39]
	War Song of the Wings [ja][ah]	Yes	No	No	No		[31]
	The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya[ai]	Yes	No	No	No		[35]
	Ramayana[aj]	No	No	No	No	Scripting supervisor	[40]
1943	The Opium War[ak]	Yes	No	No	No		[31]
	World of Love: The Story of Windcat Tomi[al]	Yes	No	No	No		[41]
	Marching Music Force[am]	Yes	No	No	No		[42]
	The Story of Heiroku's Dream[an]	Yes	No	No	No
	Watchtower Suicide Squad[ao]	Yes	No	No	No
	Military Song of the Morning Mist[ap]	Yes	No	No	No
	Man[aq]	Yes	No	No	No		[43]
	Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky [ja][ar]	Yes	No	No	No		[31]
	Diary of a Drifting Boy[as]	Yes	No	No	No		[43]
	Hot Wind[at]	Yes	No	No	No
	Forward with the Flag of Independence[au]	Yes	No	No	No
	Naniwabushi Recitation Chushingura[av]	Yes	No	No	No		[44]
1944	Fire on that Flag![aw]	Yes	No	No	No		[44]
	Kato's Falcon Fighters Squadron[ax]	Yes	No	No	No		[35][45]
	Four Weddings[ay]	Yes	No	No	No		[45]
	Bomber Squadron, Move Out[az]	Yes	No	No	No
1945	Until the Day of Victory [ja][ba]	Yes	No	No	No		[46]
	Three People of the North [ja][bb]	Yes	No	No	No
	Five Men from Tokyo [ja][bc]	Yes	No	No	No		[45]
1946	The Descendants of Taro Urashima[bd]	Yes	No	No	No
	An Enemy of the People[be]	Yes	No	No	No		[46]
	Lord for a Night[bf]	Yes	No	No	No		[45]
1947	A Thousand and One Nights with Toho[bg]	Yes	No	No	No
1948	A Moonflower in Heaven[bh]	Yes	No	No	No
	Gate of Flesh[bi]	Yes	No	No	No
	A Woman in a Typhoon Area[bj]	Yes	No	No	No
	The Bandit of Moonlight Castle[bk]	Yes	No	No	No
1949
	The White-Haired Fiend[bl]	Yes	No	No	No		[45]
	Flowers of Raccoon Palace[bm]	Yes	No	No	No
	The Rainbow Man [ja][bn]	Yes	No	No	No	Uncredited; with Tatsuyuki Yokota	[47]
	The Ghost Train[bo]	Yes	No	No	No		[45]
	My Name is Mistress[bp]	Yes	No	No	No		[48]
	The Invisible Man Appears[bq]	Yes	No	No	No		[45]
1950	Escape at Dawn[br]	Yes	No	No	No		[49]
	Listen to the Voices of the Sea[bs]	Yes	No	No	No		[45]
	Kojirō Sasaki: Part One [ja][bt]	Yes	No	No	No
1951	Beyond Love and Hate [ja][bu]	Yes	No	No	No
	Pirate Ship [ja][bv]	Yes	No	No	No
	The Lady of Musashino[bw]	Yes	No	No	No
1952	The Skin of the South[bx]	Yes	No	No	No
	Hakone Fuunroku [ja][by]	No	Special effects	No	No		[48]
	The Man Who Came to Port[bz]	Yes	No	No	No
1953	The Tower of Lilies [ja][ca]	Yes	No	No	No		[50]
	The Sunday That Jumped Out [ja][cb]	No	Yes	No	No	With Jun Yasumoto
	Beyond the Clouds [ja][cc]	Yes	No	No	No
	Anatahan[cd]	Yes	No	No	No
	What Is Your Name? [ja][ce]	Yes	No	No	No		[51]
	Eagle of the Pacific[cf]	Yes	No	No	No		[52]
	What Is Your Name? Part II [ja][cg]	Yes	No	No	No		[51]
1954	Farewell Rabaul[ch]	Yes	No	No	No		[53]
	What Is Your Name? Part III [ja][ci]	Yes	No	No	No		[51]
	And Thus the Liberty Bell Rang[cj]	Yes	No	No	No		[54]
	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto[ck]	Yes	No	No	No		[55][50]
	Godzilla[cl]	Yes	No	No	No		[56]
	The Invisible Avenger[cm]	Yes	Yes	No	No		[57]
1955	Godzilla Raids Again[cn]	Yes	No	No	No		[58]
	Half Human[co]	Yes	No	No	No		[59]
	Ginrin[cp]	Yes	No	No	No		[55]
1956	The Maiden Courtesan[cq]	Yes	No	No	No		[60]
	The Legend of the White Serpent[cr]	Yes	No	No	No		[61]
	Jun'ai [ja][cs]	Yes	No	No	No		[60]
	Rodan[ct]	Yes	No	No	No		[62]
1957	Throne of Blood[cu]	Yes	No	No	No	Uncredited	[63][64]
	The Paradise Island Story[cv]	Yes	No	No	No		[60]
	The Mysterians[cw]	Yes	No	No	No		[65]
1958	The H-Man[cx]	Yes	No	No	No		[66]
	Varan the Unbelievable[cy]	Yes	No	No	No		[67]
	The Hidden Fortress[cz]	Yes	No	No	No	Uncredited	[63]
1959	Inao: Story of an Iron Arm [ja][da]	Yes	No	No	No		[68]
	Monkey Sun[db]	Yes	No	No	No	Remake of Son Gokū (1940)	[69]
	Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender[dc]	Yes	No	No	No		[70]
	The Three Treasures[dd]	Yes	No	No	No		[71]
	Battle in Outer Space[de]	Yes	No	No	No		[72]
1960	The Secret of the Telegian[df]	Yes	No	No	No		[73]
	Storm Over the Pacific[dg]	Yes	No	No	No		[63]
	The Human Vapor[dh]	Yes	No	No	No		[74]
1961	The Story of Osaka Castle[di]	Yes	No	No	No		[63]
	Mothra[dj]	Yes	No	No	No		[75]
	Blood on the Sea [ja][dk]	Yes	No	No	No		[76]
	The Youth and His Amulet [ja][dl]	Yes	No	No	No		[63]
	The Last War[dm]	Yes	No	No	No		[77]
1962	The Crimson Sky [ja][dn]	Yes	No	No	No		[78]
	Gorath[do]	Yes	No	No	No		[79]
	The Big Wave[dp]	Yes	No	No	No	Completed in 1961	[80]
	King Kong vs. Godzilla[dq]	Yes	No	No	No		[81]
	The Story of Shim Cheong [ko][dr]	Yes	No	No	No		[82]
	Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki[ds]	Yes	No	No	No	Uncredited	[83]
1963	Attack Squadron![dt]	Yes	No	No	No		[84]
	The Love Eterne[du]	Yes	No	No	No		[85][86]
	Legacy of the 500,000[dv]	Yes	No	No	No		[78]
	The Siege of Fort Bismarck [ja][dw]	Yes	No	No	No
	Matango[dx]	Yes	No	No	No		[87]
	The Lost World of Sinbad[dy]	Yes	No	No	No		[88]
	Atragon[dz]	Yes	No	No	No		[89]
1964	Whirlwind[ea]	Yes	No	No	No		[90]
	Mothra vs. Godzilla[eb]	Yes	No	No	No		[91]
	The Rabble[ec]	Yes	No	No	No		[78]
	Dogora[ed]	Yes	No	No	No		[92]
	Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster[ee]	Yes	No	No	No		[93]
1965	None but the Brave[ef]	Yes	No	No	No		[35]
	Retreat from Kiska [ja][eg]	Yes	No	No	No		[94]
	Frankenstein vs. Baragon[eh]	Yes	No	No	No		[95]
	The Crazy Adventure[ei]	Yes	No	No	No		[96]
	Invasion of Astro-Monster[ej]	Yes	No	No	No		[97]
1966	The Adventure in Taklamakan [ja][ek]	Yes	No	No	No	Uncredited	[98]
	Zero Fighter [ja][el]	Yes	No	No	No
	The War of the Gargantuas[em]	Yes	No	No	No		[22]
	Ebirah, Horror of the Deep[en]	Yes	No	No	No		[99]
1967	King Kong Escapes[eo]	Yes	No	No	No		[79]
	Ultraman: Monster Movie Feature[ep]	No	No	No	No	Supervisor	[99]
	Son of Godzilla[eq]	No	No	No	Yes		[100]
1968	Destroy All Monsters[er]	No	No	No	Yes		[101]
	Admiral Yamamoto[es]	Yes	No	No	No		[98]
1969	The Crazy Cats' Big Explosion [ja][et]	No	No	No	Yes	Uncredited	[98]
	Latitude Zero[eu]	Yes	No	No	No		[94]
	Battle of the Japan Sea[ev]	Yes	No	No	No
	All Monsters Attack[ew]	No	No	No	Yes	Also participated in editing	[102][103]
1970	Birth of the Japanese Islands [ja][ex]	Yes	No	No	No	Produced in 1969	[25]

Television

Television work by Eiji Tsuburaya

Year	Title	Credited as	Notes	Ref(s)
		Supervisor
1957	Ninja Arts of Sanada Castle[ey]	Special effects		[104]
1959–1960	Mighty Atom[ez]	Special effects	Uncredited	[105]
1960	Everyone's Occupation[fa]	No	Himself; episode "Video Magician: Special Skills Director"[fb]	[106]
1962	Japanese Standards[fc]	No	Himself; May 15 episode	[82]
1966	Ultra Q[fd]	Yes	Also producer	[107]
	Modern Leaders[fe]	No	Himself; episode, "The Father of Ultra Q"[ff]	[108]
1966–1967	Ultraman[fg]	Yes	Also developer	[21]
1967–1968	Ultraseven[fh]	Yes		[109]
1968	Mighty Jack[fi]	Yes
	Fight! Mighty Jack[fj]	Yes		[110]
	Operation: Mystery! [ja][fk]	Yes
1973	Horror Theater Unbalance[fl]	Yes	Produced in 1969	[111]

Notes

1. 特撮の父, Tokusatsu no Chichi, lit. 'Father of special effects'.^[3]
2. 哀の曲, Awaremi no Kyoku
3. 島の塚, Shima no Tsuka
4. 延命院の傴僂男, Enmei'in no Semushi Otoko
5. 狂った一頁, Kurutta Ichipēji
6. 稚児の剱法, Chingo no Kenpō
7. 蝙蝠草紙, Komori Zoshi
8. 月下の狂刃, Gekka no Kyōba
9. 天保悲剣録, Tenpo Hiken-roku
10. 怪盗沙弥麿, Kaitou Sayamaro
11. 明暗, Meian
12. 妖魔綺譚, Youma Kitan
13. 野狐三次, Nogitsune Sanji
14. 吹雪に叫ぶ狼, Fubuki-ni Sakebu Okami
15. 猛襲高田の馬場, Mōshū Takada nobaba
16. 怪談 ゆうなぎ草紙, Kaidan Yuunagi Zoshi
17. 祇園しぐれ, Gion Shigure
18. 浅太郎赤城颪, Asataro Akagi Oroshi
19. 荒木又右衛門 天下の伊賀越, Araki Fusaemon Tenka no Iga Goe
20. 百万人の合唱, Hakku-Man'nin no Gassho
21. かぐや姫, Kaguya-hime
22. 赤道越えて, Sekidō Koete lit. 'Across the Equator'
23. 小唄磯鳥追お市, Koutareki Torioi Oichi
24. 新しき土, Atarashiki Tsuchi lit. 'The New Earth'. German: Die Tochter des Samurai
25. 阿部一族, Abe Ichizoku
26. 嗚呼南郷少佐, Aa Nangō Shōsa lit. 'Ah, Major Nangō'
27. 皇道日本, Kodo Nippon
28. 海軍爆撃隊, Kaigun Bakugeki-tai
29. 燃ゆる大空, Moyuru ōzora
30. 孫悟空 lit. 'Son Wukong'
31. 上海の月, Shanghai no tsuki
32. 南海の花束, Nankai no Hanabata
33. 小春狂言, Koharu kyōgen
34. 翼の凱歌, Tsubasa no Gaika
35. ハワイ・マレー沖海戦, Hawai Marē Oki Kaisen
36. ラーマーヤナ, Rāmāyana
37. 阿片戦争, Ahen sensō
38. 愛の世界 山猫とみの話, Ai no Sekai Yamaneko Tomi no Hanashi
39. 音楽大進軍, Ongaku Daishingun
40. 兵六夢物語, Heiroku Yume Monogatari
41. 望楼の決死隊, Bōrō no Kesshi-tai
42. あさぎり軍歌, Asagiri gunka
43. 男, Otoko
44. 決戦の大空へ, Kessen no ōzora he
45. 少年漂流記, Shōnen hyōryū-ki
46. 熱風, Nepū
47. 進め独立旗, Susume dokuritsu hata
48. 浪曲忠臣蔵, Rōkyoku Chūshingura
49. あの旗を撃て, Ano hata o ute
50. 加藤隼戦闘隊, Katō Hayabusa sentōtai
51. 四つの結婚, Yottsu no kekkon
52. 雷撃隊出動, Raigeki-tai Shutsudō
53. 勝利の日まで, Shōri no Himade
54. 北の三人, Kita no San'nin
55. 東京五人男, Tōkyō go-ri Otoko
56. 浦島太郎の後裔, Urashima Tarō no kōei
57. 民衆の敵, Minshū no teki
58. 或る夜の殿様, Aru yoru no Tonosama
59. 東宝千一夜, Toho senichi-ya
60. 天の夕顔, Ten no yūgao
61. 肉体の門, Nikutai no mon
62. 颱風圏の女, Taifuunken no Onna
63. 月光城の盗賊, Gekkō-jō no Tōzoku
64. 白髪鬼, Shiraga oni
65. 花くらべ狸御殿, Hana Kurabe Tanuki Goten
66. 虹男, Niji Otoko
67. 幽霊列車, Yūrei Ressha
68. わたしの名は情婦, Watashi no Na wa Jōfu
69. 透明人間現わる, Tōmei Ningen Arawaru
70. 暁の脱走, Akatsuki no Dassō
71. 日本戦歿学生の手記 きけ、わだつみの声, Nippon senbotsu gakusei no shuki: Kike wadatsumi no koe lit. 'Notes from Fallen Japanese Student Soldiers: Listen to the Voices from the Sea'
72. 佐々木小次郎(第一部), Sasaki Kojirō (Dai'ichibu)
73. 愛と憎しみの彼方へ, Ai to Nikushimi no Kanata-e
74. 海賊船, Kaizoku-sen
75. 武蔵野夫人, Musashino fujin
76. 南国の肌, Nangoku no hada
77. 箱根風雲録, Hakone Fūunroku
78. 港へ来た男, Minato e Kita Otoko
79. ひめゆりの塔, Himeyuri no Tō
80. 飛び出した日曜日, Tobidashita Nichiyōbi
81. 雲ながるる果てに, Kumo nagaruru hate-ni
82. アナタハン
83. 君の名は, Kimi no na wa
84. 太平洋の鷲, Taiheiyo no washi
85. 君の名は 第二部, Kimi no na wa Dainibu
86. さらばラバウル, Saraba Rabauru
87. 君の名は 第三部, Kimi no na wa Daisanbu
88. かくて自由の鐘は鳴る, Kakute jiyū no kane wa naru
89. 宮本武蔵, Miyamoto Musashi
90. ゴジラ, Gojira
91. 透明人間, Tomei Ningen lit. 'The Invisible Man'
92. ゴジラの逆襲, Gojira no Gyakushū lit. 'Godzilla's Counterattack'
93. 獣人雪男, Jūjin Yuki Otoko lit. 'Beast-Man Snow-Man'
94. 銀輪 lit. 'Silver Ring'
95. 乱菊物語, Rangiku Monogatari lit. 'A Tale of Rangiku'
96. 白夫人の妖恋, Byaku fujin no yōren lit. 'The Love of Madame White'
97. 殉愛, Jun'ai
98. 空の大怪獣 ラドン, Sora no Daikaijū Radon lit. 'Giant Monster of the Sky: Radon'
99. 蜘蛛巣城, Kumonosu-jō lit. 'The Castle of Spider's Web'
100. 極楽島物語, Gokuraku-tō Monogatari
101. 地球防衛軍, Chikyū Bōeigun lit. 'Earth Defense Force'
102. 美女と液体人間, Bijo to Ekitai-ningen lit. 'Beauty and the Liquid People'
103. 大怪獣バラン, Daikaijū Baran lit. 'Giant Monster Varan'
104. 隠し砦の三悪人, Kakushi Toride no San Akunin lit. 'The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress'
105. 鉄腕投手 稲尾物語, Tetsuwan Tōshu Inao Monogatari
106. 孫悟空, Son Gokū lit. 'Sun Wukong'
107. 潜水艦イ-57降伏せず, Sensuikan I-57 kofuku sezu
108. 日本誕生, Nippon Tanjō lit. 'The Birth of Japan'
109. 宇宙大戦争, Uchū Daisensō lit. 'The Great Space War'
110. 電送人間, Densō Ningen lit. 'The Electrically Transmitted Man'
111. ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐, Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi lit. 'Hawaii-Midway Battle of the Sea and Sky: Storm in the Pacific Ocean'
112. ガス人間第1号, Gasu Ningen Daiichigō lit. 'Gas Man No. 1'
113. 大坂城物語, Ōsaka-jō Monogatari
114. モスラ, Mosura
115. 紅の海, Kurenai no umi lit. 'The Crimson Sea'
116. ゲンと不動明王, Gen to Fudōmyōh lit. 'Gen and Fudōmyōh'
117. 世界大戦争, Sekai Daisensō, lit. 'The Great World War''
118. 紅の空, Kurenai no Sora
119. 妖星ゴラス, Yōsei Gorasu lit. 'Ominous Star Gorath'
120. 大津波, Daitsunami lit. 'The Giant Tsunami'
121. キングコング対ゴジラ, Kingu Kongu tai Gojira
122. 대심청전, Dae Sim Cheong-jeon
123. 忠臣蔵 花の巻 雪の巻 lit. 'Chushingura: Story of Flower, Story of Snow'
124. 太平洋の翼, Taiheiyō no Tsubasa lit. 'Wings of the Pacific'
125. 梁山伯與祝英台, lit. 'Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai'
126. 五十万人の遺産, Gojuman-nin no Isan
127. 青島要塞爆撃命令, Chintao yōsai bakugeki meirei
128. マタンゴ
129. 大盗賊, Daitōzoku lit. 'The Great Thief'
130. 海底軍艦, Kaitei Gunkan lit. 'The Undersea Warship'
131. 士魂魔道 大竜巻, Shikonmado Daitatsumaki
132. モスラ対ゴジラ, Mosura tai Gojira
133. がらくた, Garakuta
134. 宇宙大怪獣ドゴラ, Uchū Daikaijū Dogora lit. 'Giant Space Monster Dogora'
135. 三大怪獣 地球最大の決戦, San Daikaijū: Chikyū Saidai no Kessen lit. 'Three Giant Monsters: Earth's Greatest Battle'
136. 勇者のみ, Yūsha Nomi lit. 'Only the Brave'
137. 太平洋奇跡の作戦 キスカ, Taiheiyō kiseki no sakusen Kisuka lit. 'Miraculous Pacific Operation: Kisuka'
138. フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣（バラゴン）, Furankenshutain tai Chitei Kaijū Baragon, lit. 'Frankenstein vs. Subterranean Monster Baragon'
139. 大冒険, Daibōken lit. 'Great Adventure'
140. 怪獣大戦争, Kaijū Dai-sensō lit. 'The Giant Monster War'
141. 奇巌城の冒険, Kiganjō no bōken lit. 'Strange Rock Castle Adventure'
142. ゼロ・ファイター 大空, Zero faita dai kūsen lit. 'Zero Fighter Great Air Battle'
143. フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ, Furankenshutain no Kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira lit. 'Frankenstein's Monsters: Sanda vs. Gaira'
144. ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ　南海の大決闘, Gojira Ebira Mosura Nankai no Dai-kettō lit. 'Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: Big Duel in the South Seas'
145. キングコングの逆襲, Kingu Kongu no Gyakushū lit. 'King Kong's Counterattack'
146. 長篇怪獣映画 ウルトラマン, Chōhen Kaijū Eiga Urutoraman
147. 怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子, Kaijū-tō no Kessen: Gojira no Musuko lit. 'Monster Island's Decisive Battle: Godzilla's Son'
148. 怪獣総進撃, Kaijū Sō-shingeki lit. 'Monster All-out Attack'
149. 連合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六, Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan Yamamoto Isoroku, lit. 'Isoroku Yamamoto: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet'
150. クレージーの大爆発, Kureji no daibakuhatsu
151. 緯度0大作戦, Ido Zero Daisakusen, lit. 'The Great Latitude 0 Operation'
152. 日本海大海戦, Nihonkai Daikaisen lit. 'The Great Battle in the Japan Sea'
153. ゴジラ・ミニラ・ガバラ オール怪獣大進撃, Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Dai-shingeki lit. 'Godzilla, Minilla, and Gabara: All Monsters Attack'
154. 日本の自然と日本人の夢, Nihon no Shizen to Nihonjin no Yume lit. 'The Nature of Japan and the Dreams of Japanese'
155. 忍術真田城, Ninjutsu Sanada-jō
156. 鉄腕アトム, Tetsuwan Atomu
157. みんなの職業, Min na no Shokugyō
158. 映像の魔術師 特技監督, Eizō no Majutsu-shi Tokugi Kantoku
159. 日本の水準, Nihon no suijun
160. ウルトラQ, Urutora Kyū
161. 現代の主役, Gendai no shuyaku
162. ウルトラQのおやじ, Urutora Kyū no Oyaji
163. ウルトラマン, Urutoraman
164. ウルトラセブン, Urutora Sebun
165. マイティジャック, Maiti Jakku
166. 戦え！マイティジャック, Tatakae! Maiti Jakku
167. 怪奇大作戦, Kaiki Daisakusen lit. 'Mysterious Strategy'
168. 恐怖劇場アンバランス, Kyōfu Gekijō Anbaransu

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External links

• Eiji Tsuburaya at IMDb
• Eiji Tsuburaya at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)