Today we get the sad news of the death of the director, producer to screenwriter Toshihiro Iijima, who died at 89 last October 17 due to aspiration pneumonia. The family has already held the funeral privately.
Iijima he was writer and director of series of the caliber of Ultra Q and of the famous Ultraman of 1966, but he also worked in Ultraseven, Return of Ultraman and other works related to the same franchise, often signing himself with a stage name.
In 1992 he reached retirement age, but nevertheless continued to work as a writer and director for the franchise Ultraman until the movie Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact of 2001 and the series Ultraman Max.
Source: Yomiuri Street Anime News Network
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