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Eiji Tsuburaya
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Special Effects Born: July 7, 1901 in Sukagawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan Death: January 25, 1970 Biography:Eiji Tsuburaya was one of the Japanese movie industry's top special-effects designers from the '40s through the end of the '60s. Indeed, along with Ray Harryhausen in America, he was among the first modern special-effects designers in the world to develop a public of his own. His fame was not confined to Japan; even more remarkably, the public recognition that he achieved in the '60s constituted the second act in one of the most notable technical careers in Japanese cinema.
Born in 1901 in Sukagawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Eiji Tsuburaya lost his mother when he was three years old and was raised by his father and an extended family who included his grandmother. By age ten, he'd become fascinated by movies and, according to a well-known story, he pilfered money from his father's store to buy a second-hand movie projector that he had seen. But, realizing that he would never be able to... Full Biography
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