Keizô Murase, an artist and sculptor who worked on many Japanese monster films — he made the Gamera suit and did special effects for many movies including the movies in episodes K06- /308- GAMERA VS. GAOS and 1109- YONGARY MONSTER FROM THE DEEP — died Oct. 14.
He joined Toho’s film productions in 1958 and worked as a modeling assistant on films such as “Varan the Giant Monster” in the same year, “Mothra” in 1961, “King Kong vs. Godzilla” in 1962, and “Matango” in 1963.
A translated obit is here.
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Matango was one weird film.