andGodzillatoo. You’ll trace Japan’s unique filmmaking history, moving from the silent era to its post-war golden age to the 1960s New Wave to the anime explosion of the ’80s, all the way up to the current renaissance spearheaded by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Mamoru Hosod...
Godzilla, Akira, Mononoke: Japan’s Fear Professor Peter Winn Kirby of Oxford has a thoughtful and painfully spot-on essay about how the original Godzilla movies, far from being mere campy horror flicks, in fact were fictional dramatizations giving a voice to Japan’s visceral fears of radioac...
ChineseandJapanese – harbor animosity toward the nation's forgetful antics. Contrary to popular belief the concept dates back to Godzilla's inception in 1954. “The terror of the times was such that people thought Godzilla might be the symbol of the spirits of...
45. Shin Godzilla (2016) The long and storied Godzilla franchise receives an intriguing reboot with Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi’s “Shin Godzilla.” This twenty-ninth Toho-producedGodzilla moviereimagines Gojira as a creature metamorphosing in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disas...
Kalat, David A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series Jefferson: McFarland & Co. 1997Kalat, David J-Horror: The definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond New York: Vertical Inc. 2007Kamata Tōji Myth and Deity in Japan: The Interplay of Kami and Buddhas ...
Millennium Actresscomes loaded to the brim with references to Japanese film, although many of them, perhaps for legal reasons, have been tweaked a little so as not to be blatanthommages. So it is that we see leading lady Chiyoko with a robotic lizard, evocative of the iconic Godzilla, but...
"Gojira" (translated into English as "Godzilla") is the first and best-known of the latter genre, while Kurosawa's epic "Seven Samurai" is often considered one of the best films ever made. The ninja and the yakuza (Japanese-style mafia) genres made their appearance in the 1960s and ...
just so you'll know... Japan DOES NOT have a Godzilla museum, so don't even ask. I mean he put them on the map and they don't even honor him. They honor everything else you can think of. Just goes to show, some people have their priorites all screwed up. Mothra holy crap!
Inside, their cameras filmed intimate scenes of the Grand Lodge which had pictures of other members such as George Washington hanging on the walls. They also encountered a room where rituals were performed. The Masonic symbol could also be seen everywhere including on members’ necktie...
Monsters. From the great sea beast called Leviathan in the Bible to the mutant lizard Godzilla of modern science fiction movies, monstrous animals appear in many kinds of myths. Monsters represent our darkest fears: chaos and uncontrollable destruction. A monster is more than just a large or fie...