[1] As a child, he would often walk miles to the nearest theater to watch silent adventure and ninja films in the afternoons.

The following year, Tanaka moved to Toho after it merged with Taiho Eiga and began his career as a producer under Iwao Mori.

[5] He is best known as the creator, with storyteller Shigeru Kayama, director Ishirō Honda, writer Takeo Murata and special-effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, of Godzilla, the towering embodiment of post-World War II anxiety.

Tanaka created Godzilla in 1954 in an effort to illustrate the terror Japan felt after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

he also creates manipulative aliens, causing problems for the Earth, for the purpose of political, according to the tendencies of his monster films.