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Jun Fukuda joined
Toho in 1946 and ventured into the realm of assistant
director as others like Hiroshi Inagaki took
the young man under their wing. By 1959, Fukuda
began a career as a full fledged director. His
early work slanted more toward mystery, but he
began to expand into more comedic work by the
mid-1960's, with movies such as Iron
Finger (1965). It was around this time
that Fukuda was approached and given the opportunity
to direct a movie in the Godzilla series, Ebirah,
Horror of the Deep (1966), to which he
accepted. By the director's request, Akira
Ifukube was bypassed for the production in
favor of Masaru Sato,
a composer that Fukuda was more familiar with.
Fukuda would go on to direct entries in Toho's
popular Young Guy series and Konto 55, however
he would be best known for his Godzilla work
and would later in his career become the "go
to" director for special effects productions
after Ishiro Honda stepped
out of the limelight. Fukuda also wrote the unproduced Invisible
Man vs. the Human Torch. |
