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 ...[Read Story]