Masaichi Nagata

Masaichi Nagata
Nagata at the 27th Academy Awards
Born	(1906-01-21)21 January 1906 Kyoto, Japan
Died	24 October 1985(1985-10-24) (aged 79) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Daiei president, film producer, baseball executive
Years active	1925–1980
Children	2[1]
Baseball player Baseball career
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1988

Masaichi Nagata (永田 雅一, Nagata Masaichi, 21 January 1906 – 24 October 1985) was a Japanese businessman and served as president of Daiei Film. The self-proclaimed creator of Gamera, he produced the kaiju's second film Gamera vs. Barugon, with the remainder of the Showa Gamera films produced instead by his son Hidemasa Nagata.