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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66% | 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% | 67% | Destroy All Monsters! |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1968 |
| 63% | 42% | King Kong Escapes | Director | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | War of the Gargantuas |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | 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 | 66% | Attack of the Mushroom People | Director | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Atragon | Director | - | 1963 |
| 52% | 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% | 62% | Mothra | Director | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | The Human Vapor | Director | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | Battle in Outer Space | 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 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frankenstein vs. Baragon | Director | - | 0000 |