A few years ago I released a novel about a giant monster:Project Nemesis. While it was far from my first foray into writing about monsters, or even large monsters, it was my first attempt at writing what is known as kaiju (strange beast in Japanese). In the past, the genre was relega...
*Kaiju is Japanese for “strange beast.” The genre includes classic monsters such as Godzilla, Gamera, Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah. “Reading Jeremy Robinson is dangerous for your sleep pattern. He spins monster yarns so well that you cannot stop turning pages. Giant monsters, creepy islan...
In Japanese, a kaiju originally just meant a “strange creature” but its come to mean a big, bad, scary monster. So, naturally, a Super Kaiju is a lot bigger, a lot stranger and a lot better at writing and photography. Did you ever watch Pacific Rim? Yeah, kinda like that. A lon...
) about shooting a China-Korean co-production about the man who assassinated the first Japanese prime minister. So China, which is having a string of disputes with Japan over pretty much everything from how to teach
It’s all in Japanese so I have no idea what all the texts says, and the see-through part shows off Gamera but doesn’t look overly impressive through all the layers of plastic. Opening the box up and this thing is really well packaged!
… The New York Asian Film Festival is in full effect, running until July 11. One of the best things going is a six-film tribute to Ken Takakura and Bunta Sugawara, two Japanese icons who died last year within about two weeks of each other.Marc Walkow, writing for FILM COMMENT, has ...
Student Intern Translators Studio Kaiju has an immediate opening for an internship in the "Media Department." We are looking for people that are bilingual in Japanese. J-pop design sensibility and experience are a big plus.Email interns@kaiju.com for details. ...
The answer solely comes down to its overall reception which has been amazing so far —Godzilla Minus Onehas become thebiggest live-action Japanese title IMAX opening in Japan. TheAmerican wing ofGodzilla,Monsterverse,which is spearheaded by Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, is now count...
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. I’m a big fan of kaiju eiga (Japanese giant monster movies), and I wanted this to feel true to that genre … I squeezed in many of the tropes you’ll find in classic Godzilla films. But the MOST important thing was that the game was wahoo fun where...
But everything new is old again: big monsters have played a role in our cinematic imagination since 1925’s Lost World, and the current crop of kaiju comics and films do little but pay tribute to the heyday of Japanese tokusatsu from the mid-50s to the 70s. When Godzilla first appeared...