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Minoru Yoshida

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Minoru Yoshida

Minoru Yoshida (吉田穣 (みのる) Yoshida Minoru),^[1] sometimes erroneously called Yuzuru Yoshida^[2] and Joh Yoshida, is a Japanese artist. Yoshida has worked as a designer on the majority of the Heisei Godzilla films, starting with the unmade Mothra vs. Bagan in 1990. He is credited as having designed such monsters as Battra, the Heisei Mechagodzilla, SpaceGodzilla, Destoroyah and more.

Selected filmography

Mothra vs. Bagan (1990) - Design works [unmade]
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) - Design works [uncredited]
Micro Super Battle: Godzilla vs. Gigamoth (1991) - Design works [unmade]
Godzilla vs. Gigamoth (1992) - Design works [unmade]
Ultraman: Towards the Future (TV 1992) - Monster design [as Joh Yoshida]
Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) - Design works [with Hidemi Miyata, Atsuhiko Sugita, Kunio Aoi, Kazuo Sumiya, Shinji Nishikawa]
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) - Design works [with Shinji Nishikawa, Kunio Aoi, Naoshi Yasui, Atsuhiko Sugita, Hidemi Miyata]
Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994) - Design works [with Shinji Nishikawa, Atsuhiko Sugita, Hideo Okamoto, Yuji Sakai, Hiroshi Sagae]
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) - Design works [with Shinji Nishikawa, Ryu Hariken]
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) - Design works [with Shinji Nishikawa, Satoshi Imai, Hideo Okamoto, Hideki Oka]
Rebirth of Mothra (1996) - Design works [with Shinji Nishikawa, Hideo Okamoto, Takayuki Sakai, Hideki Oka, Ryu Hariken]
Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997) - Design works [with Shinji Nishikawa, Hideo Okamoto, Takayuki Sakai, Ryu Hariken]
The Justirisers (2004-2005) - Design works [uncredited; with Shinji Nishikawa, Naoki Ogiwara, Kazusa Masaki, Daisuke Nakamura]
Super Fleet Sazer-X (TV 2005-2006) - Design works [with Shinji Nishikawa, Futoshi Nagata, Kazusa Masaki]
Super Fleet Sazer-X the Movie (2005) - Design [with Futoshi Nagata, Kazusa Masaki]

Selected video games

Super Godzilla (1993) - Original monster design
Godzilla Movie Studio Tour (1996) - Bagan, Gigamoth designer / Dogolas designer [uncredited]

Selected bibliography

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah Completion (2017) - Interviewee
Godziban Book (2022) - Interviewee

Designed monsters

Mothra, Bagan (Mothra vs. Bagan)
Dorat (Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah) [partially]
Gigamoth C Type (Micro Super Battle: Godzilla vs. Gigamoth) [scrapped]
Gigamoth (Micro Super Battle: Godzilla vs. Gigamoth, Godzilla vs. Gigamoth) [scrapped]
Battra (Godzilla vs. Mothra)
Gudis, Bogun, Gazebo, Gigasaurus, Kilazee (Ultraman: Towards the Future)
Super Godzilla (Super Godzilla)
Mechagodzilla (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II)
SpaceGodzilla, MOGUERA (Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla)
Destoroyah (Godzilla vs. Destoroyah)
Dogolas (Godzilla Movie Studio Tour)
Desghidorah, Garugaru (Rebirth of Mothra)
AquaMothra,^{[note 1]} Dagahra, Garugaru II, Barem (Rebirth of Mothra 2)
Dr. Zora, Morguiless, Gildros, Armorgunner, Rhinoslave (The Justirisers)^[3]
Reizaus, Bardres, Bigstag, Graptor, Deathber, Gord, Dilos, Dark Geran (Super Fleet Sazer-X)^[4]
Mammoth Boscheat (Super Fleet Sazer-X the Movie)^[5]

Gallery

Yoshida in an interview for Rebirth of Mothra
Yoshida's signature

Notes

↑ With Hideo Okamoto and Ryu Hariken.

References

This is a list of references for Minoru Yoshida. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Godzilla vs. Destoroyah Completion. Hobby Japan. 9 December 2017. p. 37. ISBN 978-4798615813.
↑ "Godzilla vs. Mothra (ゴジラＶＳモスラ)". Toho. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
↑ Maruyama et al. 2021, p. 85.
↑ Maruyama et al. 2021, pp. 86-87.
↑ Maruyama et al. 2021, p. 87.

Bibliography

Maruyama, Takeshi; Taketomi, Gentaro; Yamazaki, Gigan; Akita, Hideo; Toyota, Tomohisa; Nakano, Yoo; Nishikawa, Shinji (22 February 2021). Ultra Star God Series Completion. Hobby Japan. ISBN 978-4-7986-2337-5.

Staff members

Directors

Drama directors	Adam Wingard • Daisuke Sato • Ernest Schoedsack • Eugène Lourié • Gareth Edwards • Grant Sputore • Hideaki Anno • Hirochika Muraishi • Hiroto Yokokawa • Hiroyuki Seshita • Ishiro Honda • John Guillermin • Jordan Vogt-Roberts • Jun Fukuda • Kazuhiro Nakagawa • Kazuki Omori • Kensho Yamashita • Kimiyoshi Yasuda • Kiyotaka Taguchi‎‎ • Kobun Shizuno • Koji Hashimoto • Kunio Miyoshi • Masaaki Hisamatsu • Masaaki Tezuka • Masaji Nonagase • Merian C. Cooper • Michael Dougherty • Minoru Kawasaki • Motoyoshi Oda • Noriaki Yuasa • Okihiro Yoneda • Peter Jackson • Roland Emmerich • Ryuhei Kitamura • Ryuichi Ichino • Shinji Higuchi • Shinpei Hayashiya • Shizuo Nakajima • Shusuke Kaneko • Takao Okawara • Takashi Miike • Takashi Yamazaki • Takeshi Yagi • Takuya Uenishi • Tomoo Haraguchi • Tokuzo Tanaka • Willis O'Brien • Yoshikazu Ishii • Yoshimitsu Banno • Yusuke Ishida

Effects directors	Eiichi Asada • Eiji Tsuburaya • Hiromasa Mitsudome • Hiroshi Butsuda • Isao Kaneko • Junkichi Oki • Katsuro Onoue • Kazuo Sagawa • Kenji Suzuki • Kiyoko Shibuya • Koichi Takano • Koichi Kawakita • Makoto Kamiya • Sadamasa Arikawa • Shinichi Kamisawa • Teruyoshi Nakano • Toru Matoba • Yoichi Manoda • Yoshio Tabuchi • Yoshiyuki Kuroda • Yuichi Kikuchi

Assistant directors	Hideki Oka • Ken Sano • Kiyotaka Matsumoto • Koji Kajita • Linto Ueda • Masakatsu Asai • Seiji Tani • Shogo Kiyosu • Takeharu Ikebuchi • Toshifumi Shimizu • Tsunesaburo Nishikawa • Yosuke Nakano

Writers

Screenwriters	David Callaham • Dean Devlin • Ei Ogawa • Gen Urobuchi • Hiroshi Aramata • Hiroshi Kashiwabara • Hiroyasu Yamaura • Kaoru Mabuchi • Kazuhiro Inaba • Kazuma Yoneyama • Kazunori Ito • Masahiro Yokotani • Masakazu Migita • Max Borenstein • Nisan Takahashi • Nobuhiko Ishii • Ruth Rose • Ryuzo Nakanishi • Shinichi Sekizawa • Shinichiro Kobayashi • Takeshi Nakazawa • Takeo Murata • Terry Rossio • Tetsuro Yoshida • Tetsuya Yamada • Toshio Yasumi • Wataru Mimura • Yukiko Takayama • Yusuke Watanabe • Zach Shields

Authors	August Ragone • Chiharu Sakazaki • Greg Keyes • Hideo Unagami • Ken Kuronuma • Kohan Kawauchi • Sakyo Komatsu • Satoshi Nakamura • Shigeru Kayama • Steve Ryfle

Producers

Executive producers	Dino De Laurentiis • Eric McLeod • Fumio Tanaka • Henry G. Saperstein • Hidemasa Nagata • Hiro Matsuoka • James H. Nicholson • John Beck • Keiji Ota • Kenji Okuhira • Masaichi Nagata • Minami Ichikawa • Osamu Tanaka • Reuben Bercovitch • Samuel Z. Arkoff • Shogo Tomiyama • Takahide Morichi • Tomoyuki Tanaka • Tsuguhiko Kadokawa • Yoshishige Shimatani

Producers/planners	Alex Garcia • Brian Rogers • Go Miyazaki • J.J. Abrams • Jon Jashni • Kazunari Yamanaka • Mary Parent • Ritsuko Suzuki • Takashi Yoshizawa • Thomas Tull • Yonejiro Saito

Camera & lighting

Cinematographers	Hajime Koizumi • Hajime Tsuburaya • Kazufumi Fujii • Keiichi Sakurai • Keizo Suzuki • Kenichi Eguchi • Kenya Mukai • Motoyoshi Tomioka • Takeshi Yamamoto • Tokimaro Karasawa • Toshimitsu Oneda • Yuzo Kaneko

Lighting technicians	Kuichiro Kishida

Artists

Production designers	Akihiko Iguchi • Akira Inoue • Akira Sakuragi • Akira Watanabe • Hiromasa Shirai • Hiroshi Komura • Jiro Shirasaki • Owen Paterson • Takeo Kita • Tohl Narita • Toshio Miike • Toshiro Aoki • Yasuyuki Inoue • Yoshio Irie • Yoshio Suzuki

Illustrators	Bob Eggleton • Fuchimu Shimakura • Hideki Oka • James Stokoe • Jeff Zornow • Mahiro Maeda • Mario Larrinaga • Matt Frank • Minoru Yoshida • Noriyoshi Ohrai • Patrick Tatopoulos • Priscilla Tramontano • "Hurricane" Ryu Hariken • Shinichiro Kobayashi • Shinji Nishikawa • Sophie Campbell • William Reynold Brown

Propmakers	Akira Yamada • Carlo Rambaldi • Eizo Kaimai • Fumihiko Yagi • Fuminori Ohashi • Fuyuki Shinada • Hidenori Yamaoka • Kakusei Fujiwara • Kanju Yagi and Yasuei Yagi • Keizo Murase • Marcel Delgado • Masao Yagi • Masayuki Kurahashi • Nobuhiro Ekubo • Nobuyuki Yasumaru • Norihiro "Nori" Honda • Rick Baker • Ryosaku Takayama • Shigeaki Ito • Shigeru Kawaguchi • Shinichi Wakasa • Shuichi Murakami • Teizo Toshimitsu • Tomoki Kobayashi • Tsutomu Kobayashi • Yuji Sakai

Musicians

Composers & arrangers	Akira Ifukube • Alexandre Desplat • Bear McCreary • Chumei Watanabe • Henry Jackman • Ikuma Dan • Keith Emerson • Kenjiro Hirose • Kow Otani • Kunio Miyauchi • Masaru Sato • Michiru Oshima • Naoki Sato • Reijiro Koroku • Riichiro Manabe • Sei Ikeno • Shiro Sagisu • Shunsuke Kikuchi • Takayuki Hattori • Tom Holkenborg • Yuji Koseki

Singers/performers	Emi Ito and Yumi Ito • Masato Shimon • XAI

Miscellaneous

Sound & editing	Bob Ducsay • Erik Aadahl • Hideyo Sasaki • Hisashi Shimonaga • Kazuji Taira • Ted Cheesman • Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Effects people	Hiroshi Mukoyama • Jim Rygiel • Kyuzo Yamamoto • Minoru Nakano • Pete Peterson • Ray Harryhausen • Sadao Iizuka • Satoshi Narumi • Shuzaburo Araki • Tadaaki Watanabe • Tetsuo Ohya • Yukio Manoda

Miscellaneous	Kanzo Uni • Takashi Nakao • Yasuaki Sakamoto

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