Noriaki Yuasa

Noriaki Yuasa (湯浅 憲明, Yuasa Noriaki) (28 September 1933 – 14 June 2004) was a Japanese director. Yuasa was the main director of the Japanese film series Gamera, about a giant flying turtle that befriends small boys and battles giant monsters; he directed seven of the first eight films in the series while also providing special effects for one of them. The series was created by Daiei Film Studios after the box office success of the Toho Godzilla series. Yuasa's career for television dramas marks him as one of the best hitmakers for domestic television industries during the 1970s.