Sadamasa Arikawa

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.

Crew

The H-Man

Visual Effects

Varan

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Gorath

Visual Effects Camera

Frankenstein Conquers the World

Visual Effects Camera

Battle in Outer Space

Visual Effects Camera

Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Godzilla

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Godzilla

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

The Phoenix

Visual Effects Director

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Visual Effects Director, Visual Effects, Special Effects

King Kong vs. Godzilla

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

King Kong vs. Godzilla

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Invasion of Astro-Monster

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Godzilla Raids Again

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Rodan

VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects

Gigantis, the Fire Monster

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Space Amoeba

Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director

Beast Man Snow Man

VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects

The Mighty Peking Man

Special Effects

Destroy All Monsters

Special Effects, Visual Effects

The Three Treasures

Visual Effects

Tokyo 1960

VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects

Invisible Man

VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects

The Mysterians

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Dogora

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

The Eagle of the Pacific

VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects

The War of the Gargantuas

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography

Siege of Fort Bismarck

VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects

Son of Godzilla

Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director

The Last War

VFX Director of Photography, Special Effects

Matango

Special Effects, VFX Director of Photography