Production · geboren 1931-03-30 · Imabari, Ehime, Shikoku, Japan

坂野義光

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.

Bekannt aus

• Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) – Executive Producer
• Godzilla (2014) – Executive Producer
• Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (2019) – In Memory Of
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) – Executive Producer
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) – Producer
• Das Schloss im Spinnwebwald (1957) – Assistant Director
• Die verborgene Festung (1958) – Assistant Director
• Die Bösen schlafen gut (1960) – Assistant Director
• Frankensteins Kampf gegen die Teufelsmonster (1971) – Director
• Nachtasyl (1957) – Assistant Director
• オズの魔法使い (1982) – Executive Producer
• Weltkatastrophe 1999? – Die Prophezeiung des Nostradamus (1974) – Co-Director
• Techno Police: Das Gesetz der Zukunft (1982) – Script
• １００発１００中 (1965) – First Assistant Director
• 太平洋奇跡の作戦　キスカ (1965) – Assistant Director
• 怒涛一万浬 (1966) – Assistant Director
• 南太平洋の若大将 (1967) – Underwater Director of Photography
• 今日もわれ大空にあり (1964) – Assistant Director
• 東京の休日 (1958) – Second Assistant Director
• 社長繁盛記 (1968) – First Assistant Director
• 続 社長繁盛記 (1968) – Assistant Director
• 孫悟空 (1959) – Assistant Director
• 残酷飢餓大陸 (1973) – Director
• The Last Days of Planet Earth (1981) – Co-Director
• Satans Creatuur (1972) – Director