A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Akira Ioalaanabe
Hiroshi Watanabe
Mr. Nabe
Nabe-san
Watanabe Akira
ナベさん
Birthplace:
Fukui, Japan
Born:
May 13, 1908
Died:
January 1, 1999
Animation Director:
2006 Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Art Direction:
1935 The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
1952 The Skin of the South
1953 Girls in the Orchard
1959 The Three Treasures
2006 Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Director of Photography:
1935 The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
1952 The Skin of the South
1953 Girls in the Orchard
1957 Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
1959 The Three Treasures
2006 Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Producer:
1935 The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
1952 The Skin of the South
1953 Girls in the Orchard
1957 Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
1959 The Three Treasures
1991 Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles
2006 Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Special Effects:
1935 The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
1952 The Skin of the South
1953 Girls in the Orchard
1956 The Legend of the White Serpent
1957 Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
1958 Varan
1959 The Three Treasures
1963 Matango
1991 Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles
2006 Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Special Effects Assistant:
1935 The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
1952 The Skin of the South
1953 Girls in the Orchard
1956 The Legend of the White Serpent
1957 Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
1958 Varan
1959 The Three Treasures
1960 Late Autumn
1963 Matango
1991 Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles
2006 Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Visual Effects Art Director:
1935 The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
1942 The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1952 The Skin of the South
1953 Girls in the Orchard
1953 The Eagle of the Pacific
1954 Godzilla
1955 Godzilla Raids Again
1955 Half Human
1956 Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1956 Rodan
1956 The Legend of the White Serpent
1957 Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
1957 Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
1957 The Mysterians
1957 Tokyo 1960
1958 Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1958 Varan
1959 Battle in Outer Space
1959 Gigantis, the Fire Monster
1959 The Three Treasures
1960 Late Autumn
1962 Gorath
1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla
1963 King Kong vs. Godzilla
1963 Matango
1963 Siege of Fort Bismarck
1964 Dogora
1964 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964 Mothra vs. Godzilla
1965 Frankenstein Conquers the World
1965 Invasion of Astro-Monster
1977 Godzilla
1991 Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles
2006 Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Visual Effects Art Director:
1966 Ultra Q
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.