86 Years Old
Jiro Shirasaki (Shirasaki Jirō, born in 1939), is a Japanese special effects art director and modeler. His first film was Toho's "Mothra" (1961), where he worked as an assistant. He would continue as a special effects assistant art director (frequently under Yasuyuki Inoue) until the studio's twelfth Godzilla film, "Godzilla vs. Gigan" (1972), also modeling and refurbishing the King Ghidorah suit.
Fukui, Japan on 1st January 1939
