Ishirô Honda

Highest Rated: 93% Godzilla (1954)

Lowest Rated: 25% Godzilla's Revenge (1969)

Birthday: May 7, 1911

Birthplace: Yamagata, Japan

Best known for bringing in a steady income to Japan's Toho Studios in the 1950s and 60s with a series of enjoyably campy sci-fi films featuring oversized monsters which wreak mass destruction upon the urban landscape. Still the most popular of these is Honda's (and the genre's) first and one of the best, "Godzilla" (1954). Honda followed its international success with "Rodan" (1957), "The Mysterians" (1959, a rather more serious effort), "Mothra" (1962), "King Kong vs. Godzilla," "Matango--Fungus of Terror" (both 1963), and the all-star "Destroy All Monsters!" (1966).

Filmography

Movies

			Credit
65%	86%	Akira Kurosawa's Dreams	Director, Writer	$1.7M	1990
43%	60%	Terror of Mechagodzilla	Director	-	1975
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Latitude Zero	Director	-	1970
No Score Yet	38%	Yog -- Monster From Space	Director	-	1970
25%	17%	Godzilla's Revenge	Director	-	1969
75%	68%	Destroy All Monsters!	Director, Screenwriter	-	1968
63%	42%	King Kong Escapes	Director	-	1968
No Score Yet	66%	War of the Gargantuas	Director	-	1966
No Score Yet	55%	Frankenstein Conquers the World	Director	-	1966
75%	59%	Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster	Director	-	1965
57%	63%	Monster Zero	Director	-	1965
92%	68%	Godzilla vs. the Thing	Director	-	1964
No Score Yet	38%	Dagora the Space Monster	Director	-	1964
No Score Yet	65%	Attack of the Mushroom People	Director	-	1963
No Score Yet	44%	Atragon	Director	-	1963
50%	56%	King Kong vs. Godzilla	Director	-	1963
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Unbelievable Varan	Director	-	1962
No Score Yet	28%	Varan the Unbelievable	Director	-	1962
No Score Yet	50%	Gorath	Director	-	1962
80%	61%	Mothra	Director	-	1961
No Score Yet	37%	Battle in Outer Space	Director	-	1960
No Score Yet	73%	The Human Vapor	Director	-	1960
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Mysterians	Director	-	1959
No Score Yet	38%	The H-Man	Director	-	1958
73%	57%	Rodan	Director	-	1957
83%	73%	Godzilla, King of the Monsters!	Director	$148.9K	1956
No Score Yet	17%	Half Human	Director	-	1955
93%	89%	Godzilla	Director, Writer	-	1954