TOKYO - Tomoyuki Tanaka, the father of the Godzilla monster movie series, died of a stroke yesterday, two years after his giant lizard like creation was killed off after a 40 year run, his family said.
Tanaka (86) rose to fame in 1954 with the film Godzilla, the story of a lizard like creature awakened from a long slumber by hydrogen bombtesting in the South Pacific.