Toshihiro Iijima

is a Japanese producer and film director. His pen name is .https://www.worldcat.org/zh-tw/title/170019439
==Biography==
After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Koishikawa High School, Iijima entered Keio University in 1952 because of his interest in playwrights. While at school, he joined a broadcasting company to write scripts for radio plays. After graduating from Tokyo Radio Station, he worked part-time and was hired as an employee of KRT (now TBS Television) in 1957. In the same year, he directed the TV series Masurawo hashutsufu kai and other works for the first time.
In 1963, Iijima was transferred to the newly established TBS Film Production Department to participate in the shooting of TV dramas and movies. Later, at Hajime Tsuburaya's request, he was seconded to Tsuburaya Special Effects Productions headed by Eiji Tsuburaya as the director of the film department. Directed and wrote the screenplay for Ultra Q before he served as director of such Ultra series as Ultraman (1966), Ultraseven (1967) and Operation: Mystery (1968) .
In the 2000s, he participated in the production of some works in the Heisei Ultraman series.
==Death==
October 17, 2021. Iijima died of aspiration pneumonia at the age of 89.https://www.sanspo.com/article/20211018-T73HZBPY2FAZBP3WPBZPQZCJMM/
==Directed Works==
===Ultraman Series===
*Ultra Q - 4 episodes (1966-1966)
**Episode 7: S.O.S. Mount Fuji
**Episode 10: The Underground Super Express Goes West
**Episode 18: The Rainbow's Egg
**Episode 19: Challenge from the Year 2020
*Ultraman - 7 episodes (1966-1967) 
**Episode 2: Shoot the Invaders!
**Episode 3: Science Patrol, Move Out
**Episode 5: Secret of the Miloganda
**Episode 16: Science Patrol Into Space
**Episode 17: Passport to Infinity
**Episode 24: The Undersea Science Center
**Episode 25:Mystery Comet Tsuifon
*Ultraseven - Episodes 38, 39 and 40
**Episode 38: The Courageous Battle
**Episode 39: The Seven Assassination Plan Part 1
**Episode 40: The Seven Assassination Plan Part 2
*Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact - Main Director (2001)
*Ultraman Max - 2 episodes (2005-2006)
**Episode 33: Welcome! To the Earth: Part 1: The Science of the Planet Baltan
**Episode 34: Welcome! To the Earth: Part 2: Farewell! Alien Baltan
===Others===
*Operation: Mystery
==Written Works==
===Ultraman Series===
Toshihiro Iijima wrote the following episodes for the following series:
*Ultra Q - 5 episodes (1966-1966)
**Episode 1: Defeat Gomess!
**Episode 7: S.O.S. Mount Fuji
**Episode 10: The Underground Super Express Goes West
**Episode 19: Challenge from the Year 2020
**Episode 26: Blazing Glory
*Ultraman - 2 episodes (1966-1967)
**Episode 2: Shoot the Invaders!
**Episode 16: Science Patrol Into Space
*Return of Ultraman - 1 episode (1971-1972)
**Episode 32: Decisive Battle Under the Setting Sun
*Ultraman Max - 2 episodes (2005-2006)
**Episode 33: Welcome! To the Earth: Part 1: The Science of the Planet Baltan
**Episode 34: Welcome! To the Earth: Part 2: Farewell! Alien Baltan
==Film Series==
*Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle (1979)
*Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact (2001)
===Others===
*Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972)
==Fiction Series==
*Ultraman: Operation Giant (2005)
==References==
Category:Real Life People
Category:Writers
Category:Directors
Category:Deceased Writers
Category:Deceased Directors