Niisan Takahashi (高橋 二三?), born Yukito Takahashi Takahashi Nīsan (高橋 幸人?), also known as Nisan Takahashi Takahashi Yukito[1] was a Japanese screenwriter best known for working on eight installments of the Gamera films in the Showa era and also proceeded, over the next twenty-one years, to produce dozens of film and TV scripts for the company He was often miscredited in foreign releases of his films as Nizo Takahashi, a misreading of the kanji in his Japanese name.
Biography[]
Born on February 3, 1926, in Gunma, Niisan Takahashi he was the only child in his family he later joined The Daiei Company in 1950 but started being a staff member in 1954 and made his first film the following year in 1955 called Ginza no onna directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura and later that year helped make Haha naki-ko. the third and final film he made before fame was Nenneko shacho in 1956 Niisan didn't make another film for 11 years before writing the script for Gamera.his next shot at fame was on 1958 when he wrote the screenplay for Aru sex doctor no kiroku. in 1971 he write the screenplay for Ju hyo ereji and his last work was Gamera: Super Monster in 1980.
Takahashi died on May 5, 2015, aged 89 in Yokohama, Kanagawa.
Selected filmography[]
- Gamera (1965)
- Gammera, the Invincible (1966)
- Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
- Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)
- Gamera vs. Viras (1968)
- Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
- Gamera vs. Jiger (1970)
- Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)
- Thunder Mask (TV 1972-73) [unknown number of episodes]
- Gamera: Super Monster (1980)
- The Gamera That Never Was: Gamera vs. Garasharp (1991) [short]
- GAMERA -Rebirth- (2023) [uncredited]