Fumio Yanoguchi

Fumio Yanoguchi
Born(1917-09-29)29 September 1917
Died15 January 1985(1985-01-15) (aged 67)
NationalityJapanese
Occupationrecording engineer

Fumio Yanoguchi (Japanese: 矢野口 文雄, Hepburn: Yanoguchi Fumio, 29 September 1917 – 15 January 1985[1][2]) was a Japanese recording engineer known for his work with film director Akira Kurosawa.

Yanoguchi began working with Kurosawa on the 1949 film Stray Dog, and afterwards began recording the sound for the vast majority of Kurosawa's films until dying late in the production of Ran in 1985.[1] He won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Sound Recording for the 1952 film Ikiru.[3] Yanoguchi also worked on Godzilla films such as Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)[4] and Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972).[5]

Filmography

His work includes:[6]

  • Stray Dog (1949)
  • Ikiru (1952)
  • Seven Samurai (1954)
  • I Live in Fear (1955)
  • The Lower Depths (1957)
  • Throne of Blood (1957)
  • The Hidden Fortress (1958)
  • The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
  • High and Low (1963)
  • Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
  • Dodes'ka-den (1970)
  • Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
  • Kagemusha (1980)
  • Ran (1985)

References

  1. ^ a b Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, 2008, p. 128, ISBN 1578069971.
  2. ^ "Yanoguchi Fumio". Kotobanku (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  3. ^ Stuart Galbraith IV, The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography, The Scarecrow Press, 2008, p. 88.
  4. ^ Steve Ryfle, Japan's Favorite Mon-star: The Unauthorized Biography of 'The Big G', ECW Press, 1998, p. 355, ISBN 1550223488.
  5. ^ Ryfle, p. 359.
  6. ^ "Fumio Yanoguchi". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
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  • Masao Fujiyoshi (1966)
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  • Hideo Nishizaki (1971)
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  • Shōtarō Yoshida (1979)
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  • Kazuhisa Takahashi (1984)
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  • Masatoshi Yokomizo (2005)
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  • Noriyoshi Yoshida (2018)
  • Ken'ichi Fujimoto (2019)
  • Kazunori Fujimoto (2020)
  • Tomoharu Urata (2021)
  • Takamitsu Kawai (2022)
  • Jun'ichi Shima (2022)


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