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Shinichi Sekizawa was born in Kyoto, Japan on June 2, 1921. He began his cinema career in 1939, working on an animated movie in Kyoto. He was called into the service in 1941 and returned to Japan in 1946. In 1948, he was hired at Beehive Productions, where he worked as an assistant director and a screenwriter. In 1953, Sekizawa made his debut as a screenplay writer for the film "Profile of the City." His first science fiction film was Shin Toho's Sora tobu enban: Kyôfu no shûgeki (1956) ("Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucer"), a film on which he served as both writer and director. He came to Toho Studios in 1958, and wrote the screenplay for Varan (1958) ("Giant Monster Baran"). He formed the studio's science fiction team of writers with writer Takeshi Kimura shortly thereafter. The Planning Department at Toho collected story ideas from all over the studio and passed them onto the writers for development. According to director Ishiro Honda, Sekizawa was given the whimsical or fun stories to write, while the more serious or political stories went to Kimura. Sekizawa also did many song lyrics, which were original songs used in some of the Godzilla films of the 1970s. In addition, Sekizawa was a devoted enthusiast of steam locomotives.

Wrote the script for 8 of the Godzilla movies and wrote the story for 2
of the Godzilla movies.

Together with producer Tomoyuki Tanaka and director Ishiro Honda, he
wrote the lyrics to the ever-so-popular &quot;Mothra&#39;s Song,&quot; which first
debuted in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0055198/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Mothra (1961)</a> and was reused in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0058379/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0104352/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)</a> , <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0117089/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Rebirth of Mothra (1996)</a>,
<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0133104/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Rebirth of Mothra II (1997)</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0189764/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Rebirth of Mothra III (1998)</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0366526/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)</a>.

His other career as a composer of popular songs won him a Japanese
Grammy award (as lyricist) in 1964.

While also working as a screenwriter, he was also a prominent lyricist.

He was award the Purple ribbon, a Medal of Honor granted by the Japanese government due to his cultural contributions.

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