Hajime Tsuburaya

## Affiliation Information

### **Occupation(s)**

Film director, director, screenwriter, lyricist, Cinematographer, president of Tsuburaya Productions

### **First film**

*Godzilla* (1954)

**Hajime Tsunuraya** (円谷 一, *Tsuburaya Hajime*) was the second president, director and producer of Tsuburaya Productions. As a lyricist, Tokyo one there is the name of **Kyoichi Azuma** (東 京一, *Azuma Kyōichi*), his father is Eiji Tsuburaya, the first president and special skill director.

## Biography

### TBS era

After joining Radio Tokyo → KRT (TV business is now TBS TV ), he produced a TV drama as a director in the production department  . He was also involved in productions such as "Otora- san " and "Pure Love Series"  .

Among them, " King of Smoke " (screenplay: Naochika Ikuta ), which was broadcast on " Toshiba Sunday Theater " in 1962, received high praise such as receiving the Minister of Education Award at the Arts Festival . He was particularly good at portraying children.

### Ultra Series

In 1963, when the TBS is established a new movie section in order to perform their production of television movies, Toshihiro Iijima , Haruyuki Nakagawa assistant and transferred to the movie section with et al., TBS's first special-effects TV movie " Ultra Q was hit in the production of"  . "Ultra Q", " Ultraman ", " Ultra Seven , such as" special effects program of supervision served, whimsical presentation method has been Hosah with TBS not be understood around Akio Jissoji such as pick up, did their force on the prosperity of the series ..

The monsters ( Dodongo , Pester ) appearing in "Mummy's Cry" and "Oil SOS" directed by Hajime Tsuburaya in "Ultraman" took his opinion and both have two performers in the stuffed animal ( kigurumi ). It was a novel thing to enter.

### Tsuburaya Productions president appointed

In 1970, he left TBS due to his father Eiji's illness and became president of Tsuburaya Productions . Due to financial difficulties, the company is struggling to rebuild its business, which was in a critical business situation. Declaring that the president and director cannot serve concurrently, he will be involved in the work as a producer after that . In the same year , started production of " Ultra Fight ". Due to the popularity of this program, the demand for full-scale special effects programs increased, and in 1971 he produced " Return of Ultraman " and " Mirrorman " ( Fuji TV ) as producers , and sparked the second monster boom . It becomes.

Since then, he has been involved in the production of programs such as " Ultraman A ", but since he became president, he has been struggling with sales and entertainment, and as a result, his diabetes and high blood pressure have worsened. His life was disturbed, such as divorcing his wife and remarriage with a mom from a club in Akasaka. On February 9, 1973, he developed cerebral hemorrhage immediately after waking up and suddenly collapsed and was taken to a hospital but died shortly thereafter . Year 41. It was only three years after his father's death.

### Monster memorial service

Tsuburaya Productions suffered a series of misfortunes such as the deaths of Eiji and his father and son one after another. On April 22, 1973, a memorial service was held at Futako Tamagawaen for the monsters who died in a program produced by the company. This was attended by Tsuburaya Productions and performers of " Ultraman Taro, " " Fireman, " and " Jumborg A, " which were being broadcast at the time , and was moderated by Shin Kishida.

## Career

### Discover young talent

Hajime Tsuburaya, the theater director is screenwriter from the idea that must also be able to write, Ultra series are encouraged to write a number of screenplay to director who was involved in. That's why the director of the main story wrote the script using the pen name in the early Ultra series. However, this was also to increase the income of young directors who could not live on the director's fee alone, especially those who became wives.

However, Hajime Tsuburaya himself did not write a script for the Ultra series. According to an interview with screenwriter Shozo Uehara published in "Ultraman Daizenshu" ( Kodansha ) , Tsuburaya seemed to have provided a considerable amount of ideas during the meeting with the screenwriter.

### Commitment to the script

On the other hand, the demands on the scriptwriter are strict, and according to an interview with the people concerned at that time published in "Ultraman AGE" ( Tatsumi Publishing ), Hajime Tsuburaya asked Tetsuo Kinjo, who was as trustworthy as his younger brother. However, the manuscript was often replaced with severe reprimands, and the scriptwriter was required to rewrite it. Among them, " Ultraman in the final round first draft scenario of" Farewell Ultraman "of", Zetton place was the deployment of Ultraman fallen under attack by Hajo beam to is divided crush even color timer when you get up, he is of the children He strongly opposed killing the hero cruelly, so it was modified to its current form.

The state of program production at that time is depicted in "Ultra Star" of " Ultraman Tiga ", but the interaction between the scriptwriter and the director is not depicted. Here, his son Hiroshi Tsuburaya plays the role of Hajime Tsuburaya .

### Ultraman's voice

In "Ultraman", Tsuburaya has directed a number of important stories that will be the milestones of the works such as the first episode and the final episode, but in the first episode "Ultra Operation No. 1", he is the voice of Ultraman. It is said that there was talk of playing. In the scene where Ultraman and Hayata talk in a red ball, Masao Nakasone, who belonged to the TBS Broadcasting System at that time, was supposed to be in charge of the voice that Ultraman speaks (the voice of the part where Ultraman speaks Japanese). , Nakasone will be significantly delayed in the dubbing recording time. However, because he could not afford to wait for Nakasone, director Tsuburaya accepted, "If so, I am." However, because it did not go well in the actual production, Hisashi Kondo, who is in charge of editing, took over, and it is said that the image of the first contact scene between the aliens in the land of light and the earthlings was completed. However, the shouts (sound effects) such as Ultraman's "Schwatch!" Are those of Nakasone.

## Major works

### Movies and TV

* Godzilla (1954, shooting assistant <special effects>)
* Godzilla's Counterattack (1955, shooting assistant)
* Kingorō Theater " Otora-san " (1956-1959, assistant director / director)
* At that time, I (1960-1961, directed)
* Kao Family Theater "Pure Love Series" (1961-1962, directed)
* Man on Monday (1961-1964, directed)
* Toshiba Sunday Theater
	+ " King of Smoke " (1962, directed)
	+ "Cartero Carlos Flying to Japan" (1963, Assistant Director)
* Look at it now (1964, director)
* Ultra Q (1966, produced and directed)
* World of Spies and Parallel Lines Japan Edition "Intervention" (Director)
* Ultraman (1966-1967, directed)
* [1]The 35th "If You Have Wings" (1967, directed)
* Woman like a lemon (1967, director)
* Ultraseven (1967, director)
* Operation Mystery (1968-1969, Director)
* Lonely female (1969, producer)
* Single Scat (1970, Producer / Supervision)
* Ultra Fight (1970, planning)
* Return of Ultraman (1971, produced and supervised)
* Mirrorman (1971, produced and supervised)
* Ultraman A (1972, supervised)
* Kaiju Funsen-Daigorou vs. Goliath (1972, produced)

### Main songwriting activities

Both are in the name of Kyoichi Azuma.

* Large monster song
* Ultra March
* Ultraman song
* Special search team song
* Go ahead! Ultraman
* Ultraseven song
* Ultra Guard
* ULTRA SEVEN
* Ultra boy song
* MJ song
* Return of Ultraman
* Monster sound head
* Ultraman A
* TAC song
* Mirrorman song
* SGM song
* Fight! Mirrorman
* Triple Fighter Song
* Emergency Command 10-4 / 10-10
* Burn like a flame

## Appearances

* The father of the modern protagonist Ultra Q (1966)
* Operation: Mystery! Episode 2 "Human Eating Moth" (1968) --Appeared as a bar guest (non-credit)

## Family

* Brother: Noboru Tsuburaya (Tsuburaya Productions third generation President and its first president), Tsubara Tsuburaya ( Tsuburaya video President)
* Sons: Masahiro Tsuburaya (5th President of Tsuburaya Productions), Hideaki Tsuburaya (6th President of Tsuburaya Productions), Hiroshi Tsuburaya (Actor / Real Name: Hiroshi Tsuburaya)
* Daughter: Kazumi Tsuburaya (singer-songwriter)

## Actor who played Hajime Tsuburaya (corresponding role)

* Yuji Miyake- "The Men Who Made Ultraman : The Moon Boat in the Forest of Stars " ( TBS )-The role name is "Ichiro Tsuburaya"
* Hideo Nakano- "Eiji Tsuburaya-Ultraman who loved the sky- " ( TV-U Fukushima )
* Hiroshi Tsuburaya (son)-" Ultraman Tiga " ( Mainichi Broadcasting System )
* Shigenori Chiba - "For from the country of light we - Tetsuo Kinjo Den -" ( 2016 , troupe Mingei )