Sadamasa Arikawa
- Visual effects
- June 17, 1925 · Tokyo, Japan
- September 22, 2005
Biography
Sadamasa Arikawa (有川 貞昌, Arikawa Sadamasa, June 17, 1925 - September 22, 2005), also known as Teisho Arikawa, was a Japanese special effects director and cinematographer. Arikawa's first film was Daiei's "The Invisible Man Appears" (1949), and he was also the primary cinematographer for the special effects sequences in Toho's tokusatsu films from "Godzilla" (1954) to "The War of the Gargantuas" (1966). A student of original Godzilla special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, Arikawa was promoted to director of special effects for Toho's Godzilla series after Tsuburaya stepped down due to health issues and work with his own company, Tsuburaya Productions, in 1966. Arikawa would serve as special effects director for the Godzilla films "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep" (1966), "Son of Godzilla" (1967), and "Destroy all Monsters" (1968), as well as several episodes of Tsuburaya Productions' television output, including "Ultra Q" (1966), "Ultraman" (1966-1967), and "Ultraseven" (1967-1968). Following his final directorial assignment for Toho with "Space Amoeba" in 1970, Arikawa would leave the company due to the death of Eiji Tsuburaya and the dissolution of Toho's in-house special effects department, and was later employed as director of special effects (above other former Toho staff) on the Shaw Brothers monster film "The Mighty Peking Man" (1977). His final film as director of special effects and final work overall was Taiwanese-Japanese co-production "The Phoenix" (1978). Sadamasa Arikawa passed away due to lung cancer on September 22, 2005, at the age of 80.
Known for
Filmography
- The Phoenix · Visual Effects Director
- The Mighty Peking Man · Special Effects
- Godzilla · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Warrior of Love Rainbowman · Special Effects
- Space Amoeba · Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director
- Motta, the Flying Dracula Monster · Special Effects
- Destroy All Monsters · Special Effects, Visual Effects
- Son of Godzilla · Special Effects, Visual Effects Director
- Ultraseven · Special Effects, Visual Effects
- Do Your Best! Godzilla · Special Effects, Director
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep · Special Effects, Visual Effects
- The War of the Gargantuas · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Ultraman · Special Effects, Visual Effects Director
- Invasion of Astro-Monster · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- The Crazy Adventure · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Frankenstein Conquers the World · Visual Effects Camera
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects
- Dogora · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Mothra vs. Godzilla · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Matango · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- King Kong vs. Godzilla · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Siege of Fort Bismarck · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects
- King Kong vs. Godzilla · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Gorath · Visual Effects Camera
- The Last War · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects
- Battle in Outer Space · Visual Effects Camera
- The Three Treasures · Visual Effects
- Gigantis, the Fire Monster · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects
- Varan · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- The H-Man · Visual Effects
- The Mysterians · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Tokyo 1960 · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects
- Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Rodan · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters! · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Beast Man Snow Man · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- Godzilla Raids Again · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects
- Invisible Man · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects
- Godzilla · Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography
- The Eagle of the Pacific · VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects