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Filmmaker · Japan

Ishirō Honda

Died in 1993

Ishirō Honda was born on 7 May 1911 in Yamagata Prefecture. Having joined P.C.L., the future Tōhō, in 1933 as an assistant, he was called up three times and spent long years in the army. Returned to cinema after the war, he became the director of his studio's monster films. He was a longtime friend of Akira Kurosawa, another pupil of Kajirō Yamamoto, whom he assisted on his last films, and died in Tokyo on 28 February 1993.

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