Junkichi Oki

Junkichi "Jun" Oki

Born

September 23, 1940

Died

December 13, 1996 (aged 56)

Occupation

Director of special effects,
director, television producer

Junkichi Oki (大木淳吉, Ōki Junkichi), shortened to Jun Oki (大木淳, Ōki Jun) for most of his professional life, was a Japanese special effects director, drama director, and TV producer who worked frequently with Tsuburaya Productions over a career that spanned three decades. He (co-)directed effects for two of the company's collaborations with Toho: the 1966 series Monster Booska and the 1972 film Daigoro vs. Goliath. Oki passed away on December 13, 1996 at age 56 due to lung cancer.

Selected filmography

Note: Credited on all productions as "Jun Oki" unless otherwise noted.

Director of special effects

Monster Booska (TV 1966-1967) [episodes 25, 28, 30, 32, 35, 37, 39-41, 43-44]
Ultraseven (TV 1967-1968) [episodes 8, 12, 17-18, 21-22, 44, 46]
Mighty Jack (TV 1968) [episodes 1-3, 8-9, 13]
Fight! Mighty Jack (TV 1968) [episodes 8, 11]
Operation: Mystery (TV 1968-1969) [episodes 4-5, 9, 11, 15, 19, 23, 25]
Return of Ultraman (TV 1971-1972) [episodes 24-25, 32-33, 37-38]
Mirror Man (TV 1971-1972) [episodes 40-41]
Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972) [with Minoru Nakano]
Magma Man (TV 1973) [episodes 7, 12; uncredited]^[1]
Jumborg Ace (TV 1973) [episodes 39-40, 45-46]
Ultraman Taro (TV 1973-1974) [episodes 37-38, 47-48, 51-53]
Ultraman Leo (TV 1974-1975) [episodes 15-16, 34-35, 40-41, 46-47]
Aizenborg (TV 1977-1978) [episodes 5-6]
Ultra Q the Movie (1990) [as Junkichi Oki]

Director

Chibira (TV 1970-1971) [episodes 56, 64]
Return of Ultraman (TV 1971-1972) [episode 32]
Mirror Man (TV 1971-1972) [episodes 46-47]
Magma Man (TV 1973) [episodes 1-2, 7, 12, 17-19, 25-26]
Jumborg Ace (TV 1973) [episodes 39-40, 49-50]
Ultraman Leo (TV 1974-1975) [episodes 26-27]
- Ultraman Story (1984) [stock footage]

Miscellaneous

Ultra Q (TV 1966) - Assistant director of special effects [unknown number of episodes; uncredited]
Ultraman (TV 1966-1967) - First assistant director of special effects [episodes 18-19, 21-22, 25-39, 31-32, 35-36, 39]^[a]
Ultraseven (TV 1967-1968) - Assistant director of special effects [unknown number of episodes; uncredited]
Born Free (TV 1976) - Associate producer [with Toru Komori]
Aizenborg (TV 1977-1978) - Producer [with Takao Niimi/Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tadashi Matsushima, Akira Tsuburaya]^[b]
Koseidon (TV 1978-1979) - Producer [with Akira Tsuburaya]
The Men Who Made Ultraman: A Moon Boat in the Forest of Stars (1989) - SFX supervisor [as Junkichi Oki]
Ultraman Tiga (TV 1996-1997) - Kodai producer [episodes 37-40; posthumous; as Junkichi Oki; with Michiaki Suzuki, Noriko Shishikura]

Notes

↑ Episodes 26-29 with Masataka Yamamoto.
↑ Takao Niimi was producer from episodes 1-20, and replaced by Hiroshi Ishikawa thereafter.

References

This is a list of references for Junkichi Oki. 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]

↑ 円谷THE COMPLETE 円谷プロ/円谷映像作品集成 [THE COMPLETE Tsuburaya: Tsuburaya Productions/Tsuburaya Eizo Works Collection] (in Japanese). Kadokawa Shoten. October 30, 2001. ISBN 4048533789.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

Staff members

Directors

Drama directors	Adam Wingard • Daisuke Sato • Ernest Schoedsack • Eugène Lourié • Gareth Edwards • Grant Sputore • Heikichi Tsushima • Hideaki Anno • Hirochika Muraishi • Hiroto Yokokawa • Hiroyasu Sunahara • 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 • Samaji 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	Akira Kato • 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 • Ryotaro Kogushi • Sadamasa Arikawa • Shinichi Kamisawa • Teruyoshi Nakano • Toru Matoba • Yoichi Manoda • Yonesaburo Tsukiji • 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 • Junichiro Ashiki • Kaoru Mabuchi • Kazuhiro Inaba • Kazuma Yoneyama • Kazunori Ito • Masahiro Yokotani • Masakazu Migita • Max Borenstein • Nisan Takahashi • Nobuhiko Ishii • Ruth Rose • Ryuzo Nakanishi • Shigeaki Hidaka • 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 • Kunmei Takahashi • 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 • Satoshi Murakawa • Takeshi Yamamoto • Tokimaro Karasawa • Toshimitsu Oneda • Yuzo Kaneko

Lighting technicians	Kaoru Saito • 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 • Fumio Hisamatsu • Hideki Oka • James Stokoe • Jeff Zornow • Mahiro Maeda • Mario Larrinaga • Matt Frank • Minoru Yoshida • Noriyoshi Ohrai • Patrick Tatopoulos • Priscilla Tramontano • Oliver Ono • "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 • James Newton Howard • John Barry • 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 • Takeo Yamashita • Tom Holkenborg • Yuji Koseki

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

Miscellaneous

Sound & editing	Bob Ducsay • Erik Aadahl • Hideyo Sasaki • Hisashi Shimonaga • Jason W. Jennings • 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 • Norman England • Takashi Nakao • Yasuaki Sakamoto

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