Takeshi Kimura
, also known by his pen name , was a Japanese screenwriter who wrote many films for Toho studios. Kimura scripted several films for director Ishirō Honda, including ''Matango'', ''Frankenstein vs. Baragon'', ''The War of the Gargantuas'', ''King Kong Escapes'', and ''Destroy All Monsters''. He was a member of the Japanese Communist Party whose screenplays often included political themes. His scripts are frequently contrasted with those written by Shinichi Sekizawa, whose scripts for kaiju films typically had a more lightweight, "fun" tone.Kimura considered the screenplay for Ishirō Honda's ''Matango'' to be his best work, and he considered all of his scripts from ''Frankenstein Conquers the World'' onward to be merely work for hire.
Kimura was known for having a dark and gloomy personality, and he was reportedly never very close to any of his fellow Toho employees. He died from a throat obstruction in his Tokyo apartment in 1988. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Shinichi Noto, Osamu Takahashi, Takeshi Kimura, Kensuke Moriwaki, Katsunori MasudaGet full text
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6by Toshiaki Toyota, Hiroki Shiomi, Takeshi Morimoto, Masahiro Natsuaki, Takeshi KimuraGet full text
Published 2017-01-01
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7by Shunsuke Takemura, Takeshi Kimura, Tatsuhiko Saito, Hisahiko Kubo, Katsuhiko ShiomiGet full text
Published 2018-03-01
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11by Yadab P. Dhakal, Wataru Suzuki, Takeshi Kimura, Nobuyuki Morikawa, Takashi Kunugi, Shin AoiGet full text
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12by Junko Kuwabara, Koichiro Kuwahara, Yoshihiro Kuwabara, Shinji Yasuno, Yasuaki Nakagawa, Kenji Ueshima, Takeshi KimuraGet full text
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14by Masato Honda, Xuchun Qiu, Suzanne Lydia Undap, Takeshi Kimura, Tsuguhide Hori, Yohei Shimasaki, Yuji OshimaGet full text
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15by Junya Kusumoto, Atsushi Uda, Takeshi Kimura, Shungo Furudoi, Ryosuke Yoshii, Megumi Matsumura, Takayuki Miyara, Masaya AkashiGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
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16by Raku Son, Takuya Fujimaru, Takeshi Kimura, Fumika Taki, Miyuki Futatsuyama, Masahiko Nagahama, Masaaki Nakayama, Yasuhiro KomatsuGet full text
Published 2019-05-01
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18by Kumatoshi Ishihara, Naomichi Takahashi, Naoki Komoto, Chisato Yoshikawa, Shuhei Fukumoto, Soichiro Ide, Takeshi Kimura, Koichiro OzawaGet full text
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19by Takeshi Kimura, Hidenori Tanikawa, Takayuki Hasegawa, Kentaro Takeda, Kengo Harato, Shu Kobayashi, Yasuo Niki, Kazunari OkumaGet full text
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20by Yohei Tanada, Junji Okuda, Takao Kato, Eri Minamino-Muta, Ichijiro Murata, Tomoyoshi Soga, Tetsuo Shioi, Takeshi KimuraGet full text
Published 2017-05-01
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