Jun Fukuda

Directing

Jun Fukuda

Born 1923-02-17 · Manshu, Korea

Jun Fukuda was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer. Fukuda joined Toho in 1946 and ventured into the realm of assistant director, being taken under the wing by directors like Hiroshi Inagaki. By 1959, Fukuda began a career as a full-fledged director, his early work slanted more toward mystery, but then expand into more comedic work by the mid-1960s, such as the spy spoof Iron Finger (1965). He also wrote the screenplay for the unproduced The Invisible Man vs. the Human Torch. Fukuda would eventually be tasked to direct a Godzilla movie, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966). Fukuda would go on to direct various entries in Toho's popular Young Guy series and Konto 55, however he would be best known for his Godzilla work, becoming the "go to" director for special effects productions after Ishirō Honda. Fukuda famously harbored a harsh view of his work in the Godzilla series saying, "The monsters became the stars, and the human characters were put into the background." and "I give all of my Godzilla films a minus score." Despite the distain he felt towards his work, he was pleasantly surprised to find fans who enjoyed his film and who sent him well wishing cards near the end of his life.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Godzilla vs. Megalon poster
6.2

Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.

Godzilla vs. Megalon

1973

Godzilla vs. Megalon poster
6.2

Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.

Godzilla vs. Megalon

1973

The War in Space poster
6.1

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.

The War in Space

1977

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep poster
6.3

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

1966

Son of Godzilla poster
6.4

Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.

Son of Godzilla

1967

Godzilla vs. Gigan poster
6.4

Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.

Godzilla vs. Gigan

1972

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla poster
7.0

An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further complicated when a second Godzilla emerges, revealing the doppelgänger as a mechanical weapon.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

1974

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla poster
7.0

An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further complicated when a second Godzilla emerges, revealing the doppelgänger as a mechanical weapon.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

1974

Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja poster
NR

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja

1969

Young Guy Graduates poster
6.5

Young Guy graduates from University.

Young Guy Graduates

1969

Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure poster
8.0

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure

1969

College Champ poster
7.5

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his hometown. When his allowance stops coming in, Yuuichi moves back in with his folks to work part-time. He has his eyes set on nationals in the fall, until one day he runs into a young woman who's fallen into trouble with the Lightning Gang...

College Champ

1962

The Witness Killed poster
9.0

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

The Witness Killed

1961

The Merciless Trap poster
8.0

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

The Merciless Trap

1961

It's a Man's Way of Life poster
8.0

Comedy about a lewd man (Fujita) learning to enjoy life's little pleasures.

It's a Man's Way of Life

1970

It's a Man's Way of Life poster
8.0

Comedy about a lewd man (Fujita) learning to enjoy life's little pleasures.

It's a Man's Way of Life

1970

Sensation Seekers poster
9.0

1963 Japanese movie

Sensation Seekers

1963

3,000 Kilometer Trap poster
NR

A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido.

3,000 Kilometer Trap

1971

Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses poster
NR

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses

1969

Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters poster
10.0

Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as politicians. A slick crime comedy of cons and payback.

Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters

1974

Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters poster
10.0

Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as politicians. A slick crime comedy of cons and payback.

Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters

1974

Motta, the Flying Dracula Monster poster
NR

While searching for his missing brother, Ryota finds the criminal Yoshimura hiding on a yacht. With a few friends, they decide to set course for Leichi Island which happens to be in the hands of gangsters who are holding the natives of Infant Island captive. Ryota and his friends discover that not only near the island lies the monster Ebirah, the monster Godzilla is also on the island. A battle ensues between the two monsters.

Motta, the Flying Dracula Monster

1969

ESPY poster
5.4

Two Japanese spies with extrasensory powers go to Istanbul to stop a global agenda of assassinations.

ESPY

1974

Young Guy on Mt. Cook poster
6.5

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

Young Guy on Mt. Cook

1969