Niisan Takahashi

Nisan Takahashi joined Daiei Studios in 1950 by winning one of their scriptwriting contests. He proceeded, over the next twenty-one years, to produce dozens of film and TV scripts for the company, most famously for the entire original GAMERA series (1965-1980). However, at the time of Daiei's financial collapse in 1971, Takahashi was still owed a great deal of money by the company. Studio chief Masaichi Nagata drew up some papers giving Takahashi legal rights to the Gamera character. The new company that claims rights to Gamera claims Takahashi's rights lapsed when Daiei fell, but nonetheless, the writer was able to publish his very own Gamera novel in 1995, in defiance of the new series of films that began that year. Though reportedly a recluse, he remains a prolific writer to this day.