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name: "Masaaki Tezuka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/masaaki-tezuka"
fi1m_id: "masaaki-tezuka"
imdb_id: "nm0856803"
tmdb_id: 73189
wikidata_id: "Q6206687"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "24 January 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-28T21:15:48.417229+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Masaaki Tezuka

## Identity

Masaaki Tezuka

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/masaaki-tezuka
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** masaaki-tezuka
- **IMDb ID:** nm0856803
- **TMDB ID:** 73189
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6206687
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6206687, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856803/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73189

Director. Born 24 January 1955 in Tochigi, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 24 January 1955, Tochigi, Japan
- **Active:** 2000–2003
- **Also known as:** 手冢昌明
- **Frequently works with:** [Wataru Mimura](https://film.one/person/wataru-mimura.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6206687, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856803/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73189

## Biography

Masaaki Tezuka (手塚昌明) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the kaiju film *Godzilla vs. Megaguirus* (2000) and went on to direct *Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla* (2002) and *Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.* (2003), the latter of which he also co-wrote.

Born in Tochigi, Japan, on 24 January 1955, Tezuka graduated from Nihon University. He began working as an assistant director in the late 1970s and later collaborated with directors including Kon Ichikawa. Toho Pictures hired him as an in-house assistant director in 1994 following his work on *47 Ronin*.

*Sources: wikizilla.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.* (2003), Fi1m 64, as Scientist in monster DNA repository (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-tokyo-s-o-s.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Rescue Wings* (2008), Director, Writer
- *Go Forth! Godman* (2008), Director
- *Samurai Commando Mission 1549* (2005), Director
- *Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.* (2003), as Scientist in monster DNA repository (uncredited) · Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-tokyo-s-o-s.md)
- *Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla* (2002), Director
- *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack* (2001), as Ground SDF officer (uncredited)
- *Godzilla vs. Megaguirus* (2000), Director
- *Shinsengumi* (2000), Assistant Director
- *Hypnosis* (1999), Assistant Director
- *Rebirth of Mothra III* (1998), First Assistant Director
- *Rebirth of Mothra II* (1997), First Assistant Director
- *Abduction* (1997), Assistant Director
- *The 8-Tomb Village* (1996), Assistant Director
- *Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II* (1993), Assistant Director
- *Kogarashi Monjirō Returns* (1993), Assistant Director
- *Sayonara Jupiter* (1984), Assistant Director
- *White Love* (1979), Assistant Director

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