Takeshi Miyanishi in May 2022. Photo © Brett Homenick. Takeshi Miyanishi was born in Tokyo in 1942 to a filmmaking family and began his career in movies with the Toho production Gorath (1962) as an assistant cameraman. He continued in that capacity on Toho kaiju films until 1968 with that year’s release of Destroy All Monsters. Afterward, Mr. … Continue reading A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF COMPOSITING KAIJU! Takeshi Miyanishi Goes Behind the Scenes on Toho’s Special Optical-Photography Techniques!