Kayama Shigeru
Overview
香山滋
1 Jul 1904
Yamada Kôji
山田鉀治
Tokyo, Japan
7 Feb 1975 (70)
Heart Failure
Author of speculative fiction best known for writing the original story used as the template for Godzilla (1954).
He began his writing career while working in the Ministry of Finance in 1940. Won a sweepstakes in 1946 for a short story titled Orang-Pendek's Revenge. It became the first in a series of stories that allowed him to leave his ministry job and work full-time as a writer.
The second entry in the Orang-Pendek series won the Japan Detective Writer Club's Newcomer Award.
Originally wrote Godzilla as a radio drama, which was broadcast before the film's premiere.
Later adapted Okami Jôjirô's work The Mysterians for the film of the same name in 1957.
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