Shigeaki Hidaka

Shigeaki Hidaka Born July 30, 1916 Miyazaki, Japan[citation needed] Occupation Film director, screenwriter First work Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946) Notable work Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

Shigeaki Hidaka (日高 繁明,   Hidaka Shigeaki) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After working as an assistant director at Toho in the 1940s, he made his directorial debut as the co-director of The Lady and the Balloon (1950, with Kiyoshi Nakano). He began writing a few years later, authoring one of Toho's earliest science-fiction films, Invisible Man (1954). His other screenplays included Godzilla Raids Again (1955), the sequel to Godzilla (1954), which he wrote with that film's co-writer Takeo Murata.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• Invisible Man (1954)
• Godzilla Raids Again (1955) [with Takeo Murata]

Trivia

• One of numerous G-Force members named after Godzilla crew in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) is named Second Lieutenant Hidaka.

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