Tomoyuki Tanaka
In 1960, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka hired Shin'ichirō Nakamura to write an original story for a new "kaiju" film. Co-written with Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta, "The Glowing Fairies and Mothra" was serialized in a magazine in January 1961. Screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa later adapted the story into a screenplay, patterning his version after "King Kong" (1933) and "Godzilla" (1954).