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Akira Tsuburaya (円谷 粲, Tsuburaya Akira) is a Japanese former film and television producer under Tsuburaya Productions. He is the third son of Eiji Tsuburaya, with his older brothers including Hajime Tsuburaya and Noboru Tsuburaya.
In 1966, after graduating from Tamagawa University, Akira Tsuburaya joined Tsuburaya Productions. During that time, he worked as an assistant director on projects such as "Ultra Q" (1966), "Ultraman" (1966-1967), "Ultraseven" (1967-1968), and "Operation: Mystery" (1968-1969). In 1970, he began his career as a producer for visual production, starting with Chibira-kun.
After leaving Tsuburaya Productions in 1989, he founded the production company Tsuburaya Eizo. He returned to Tsuburaya Productions in 2002 as Vice President, primarily overseeing the production department. He left once again in 2005, and from that year, he has served as a director for Tsuburaya Yume Kobo.
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A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japane...
A docudrama about Tetsuo Kinjo and Shozo Uehara, two writers who worked on the original Ultraman series. It als...
Direct-to-video documentary special about the 1967 series Ultraseven, mainly focusing on the series' heroine, A...
A Japanese-Arabic-produced documentary about Tsuburaya Productions' 1978 tokusatsu/anime series Dinosaur Great...
