Samaji Nonagase is a Japanese director. His pen name is Ryu Minamikawa .
Career[]
In 1946, Nonagase joined Toho after graduating from the Film Department of Nihon University College of Art. From then until 1964, he transferred to Toho Television as a TV director.
At the invitation of Eiji Tsuburaya, who reunited in Toho, he participated in Ultra Q produced by Tsuburaya as a director. After that, he got involved in many Tokusatsu works, and directed many episodes of the early Ultra series such as Ultraman and Ultraseven.
After leaving Toho in August 1982, he shot documentaries as a freelance director and also worked as a lecturer at Nihon University College of Art.
Death[]
On May 23, 1996, Nonagase passed away. Aged 72.'
Works[]
- Ultra Q (1966) - Director and writer, 7 episodes[1]
- Episode 5 "Peguila is Here!"
- Episode 11 "Balloonga"
- Episode 14 "Tokyo Ice Age"
- Episode 16 "Garamon Strikes Back"
- Episode 20 "The Undersea Humanoid Ragon" (director and writer)
- Episode 23 "Fury of the South Sea"
- Episode 24 "The Idol of Goga"
- Kaiju Booska (1966) - Director, 3 episodes
- Ultraman (1966-1967) - Director and writer, 8 episodes
- Episode 4 "Five Seconds Before the Explosion" (director and writer)
- Episode 6 "The Coast Guard Command"
- Episode 7 "The Blue Stone of Baradhi" (director and writer, with Tetsuo Kinjo)
- Episode 9 "Lightning Operation"
- Episode 18 "Brother from Another Planet" (director and writer)[2]
- Episode 19 "Demons Rise Again" (director and writer, with Masahiro Yamada)
- Episode 28 "Human Specimens 5 & 6"
- Episode 29 "The Challenge Into Subterra (director and writer, with Tetsuo Kinjo)
- Ultraseven (1967-1968) - Director and writer, 7 episodes
- Episode 2 "The Green Terror"
- Episode 3 "The Secret of the Lake"
- Episode 19 "Project Blue" (director and writer)
- Episode 20 "Defeat Seismic Source X"
- Episode 23 "Search for Tomorrow" (director and writer, with Shozo Uehara)
- Episode 32 "The Strolling Planet"
- Episode 36 "A Lethal 0.1 Seconds"
- Mighty Jack (1968) - Director and writer, 3 episodes
- Episode 2 "Recover the K52"
- Episode 3 "Burning Rose"
- Episode 7 "Don't Look at the Moon!"
- Ultraman 80 (1980-1981) -Director and writer, 4 episodes
- Episode 19 "Order to Destroy the Rogue Star"
- Episode 20 "Invasion!! The Bloodsucking Ball Army"
- Episode 27 "Terror of the White Devil" (writer)
- Episode 45 "The Never-Ending Challenge of the Baltan"
Other Works[]
- Enban Sensou Bankid (1976)
- Megaloman (1979)
References[]