#Hiroyuki Kawase

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Films Watched in 2024: 29. ゴジラ対メガロ/Gojira tai Megaro/Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) - Dir. Jun Fukuda

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Now watching:

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Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)

My rating: 4/10

I suppose it's only appropriate for a movie about a pollution monster to be a huge, weird mess. Theme song's a bit of a bop, though.

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GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH:

City pollution

Leads to spread of sludge monster

Psych rock Kaiju flick

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My revised top 5 anime openings:

Mukanjyo - Survive Said The Prophet (Vinland Saga OP 1)

Asterisk - ORANGE RANGE (Bleach OP 1, but only the unmastered version they use in the anime)

Chase The Light - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Kaiji S2 OP)

PAPERMOON by Tommy heavenly6 (Soul Eater OP 2)

Chain by BACK-ON (Air Gear OP)

My top 5 endings:

Anytime, Anywhere - milet (Frieren ED 1/2)

avid - Sawano Hiroyuki & mizuki (86 ED 1)

Life - Rude-α (Dr. Stone ED 1)

Kimi ga iru - Galla (Initial D Second Stage ED)

Daisy - STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION (Kyoukai no Kanata ED)

Honorable mentions:

ASH LIKE SNOW - the brilliant green (Tomoko Kawase)

Remind - ROOKiEZ is PUNK'd

Driver's High - L'arc-en-Ciel

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GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1973) – Episode 199 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“Megalon! Megalon! Wake up, Megalon! Come on, rise up now, to the Earth’s surface! Destroy the Earth! Destroy our enemies! Rise up! Go on! MEGALON!” That’s quite the cheering section you have there, Megalon. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Bill Mulligan, Jeff Mohr, and guest hosts Dirk Rogers and Bryan Clark – as they go quadruple kaiju in Toho’s Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973).

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 199 – Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)

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An inventor creates a humanoid robot (Jet Jaguar) that is seized by the undersea nation of Seatopia & used as a guide for Megalon and Gigan to destroy the above-ground dwellers as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society. In an attempt to stop them, a now independently thinking Jet Jaguar brings Godzilla into the fight.

  Director: Jun Fukuda

Writing Credits: Jun Fukuda (screenplay; Shin’ichi Sekizawa (treatment)

Music by: Riichirô Manabe 

Cinematography by: Yuzuru Aizawa 

Editing by: Michiko Ikeda 

Production Design by: Yoshifumi Honda

Special Effects by: Teruyoshi Nakano (director of special effects)

Selected Cast:

Katsuhiko Sasaki as Inventor Goro Ibuki

Hiroyuki Kawase as Rokuro ‘Roku-chan’ Ibuki

Yutaka Hayashi as Hiroshi Jinkawa

Robert Dunham as Emperor Antonio of Seatopia / Motorcycle assailant

Kôtarô Tomita as Lead Seatopian Agent

Ulf Ôtsuki as Seatopian Agent

Gentaro Nakajima as Truck Driver (credited as Gen Nakajima)

Sakyo Mikami as Truck Driver’s Assistant

Fumiyo Ikeda as Man from Unit 1

Kanta Mori as Japan Special Defense Forces Chief

Shinji Takagi as Gojira

Hideto Odachi as Megaro

Tsugutoshi Komada  as Jetto Jagâ

Kenpachirô Satsuma as Gaigan (credited as Kengo Nakayama)

With Doc and Chad occupied elsewhere, Jeff and Bill welcome guest hosts Bryan Clark and Dirk Rogers to examine a last-minute replacement feature for episode 199. Trust us, you will not be disappointed as the Grue-Crew champions another Toho, 1970s, Kaiju entry, Godzilla vs. Megalon, for some silly yet still awesome man-in-suit action. Joining Godzilla and Megalon on screen are fellow giant monsters, Gigan and Jet Jaguar. Jeff finds himself surrounded by kaiju super-fans Bill, Bryan, and Dirk. This episode should not be missed! Enjoy!

At the time of this writing, Godzilla vs. Meagalon is available to stream from Tubi, Freevee, Pluto TV, MAX, the Criterion Channel, and multiple PPV sources. The film is also available on physical media as a Blu-ray in Godzilla, the Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 (The Criterion Collection).

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode will be the podcast’s landmark bicentennial (that’s 200th, folks)! In honor of that occasion, the 70s Grue-Crew will also be celebrating the 50th anniversary of what many call the greatest horror movie of all time: The Exorcist (1973). Join us to discuss the film in which one character says, “There seems to be an alien pubic hair in my gin.”

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The Cinema Film Of The Week - Godzilla vs Hedorah AKA Godzilla vs The Smog Monster

Directed By Yoshimitsu Banno

Story By Yoshimitsu Banno and Takeshi Kimura

Starring Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, and Hiroyuki Kawase

Music By Riichiro Manabe

Distributed By Toho

Release Date July 24, 1971

Country Japan

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Godzilla vs. Hedorah (ゴジラ対ヘドラ, Gojira tai Hedora) is a 1971 Japanese kaiju film directed by Yoshimitsu Banno, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano.

The film stars Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, and Hiroyuki Kawase, and features Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla and Kenpachiro Satsuma as Hedorah. Satsuma would go on to portray Godzilla in later Godzilla films.

Kenpachiro Satsuma emerges from Hedorah.

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Starring : Juri Kosaka

Director : Hiroki Sugiyama

Cinematographer : Yuki Maxima

1st AC : Kota Noma

2nd AC : Mitsunori Nakata

3rd AC : Mikoto Ohki

Chief Marine Coordinator : Takayuki Saito (ZEAL)

U/W Assistant Camera Operator : Keiyu Kawase (TAIL)

Hair&make-up (cast)

:Hitomi Andoh

Hair&make-up Assistant (cast)

:Mashiro Ono

Stylist (cast)

:Risa Kutsuzawa

Stylist Assistant (cast)

:Konoha Koyama

Stylist (This is LAST) : Satoh Rina

Color Grading : Yusuke Adachi

Production Manager : Yua Obayashi (isai Inc.)

Production Assistant : Hiroyuki Kishimoto

Ren Wakayama

Line Producer : Fumiya Okada (isai Inc.)

Producer : Yuki Wakisaka (isai Inc.)

Production : isai Inc.

3rdAC！！！

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Dodes'ka-den | Akira Kurosawa | 1970

Hiroyuki Kawase, Noboru Mitani

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Friday, October 25 — Monster of the Month: GODZILLA Our host — @DraconicVerses aka Jim, Ye Olde TCM Dragon 08:00 p.m. - GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1973) Godzilla dukes it out with a giant cockroach that shoots dangerous laser beams. He gets help from some of his old monster friends, while his old nemesis "Gaigan", the robotic chainsaw monster, decides to make an appearance.

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Films Watched in 2024: 27. ゴジラ対ヘドラ/Gojira tai Hedora/Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) - Dir. Yoshimitsu Banno

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Now watching:

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Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)

My rating: 6/10

Robot gains sentience, grows to giant size, teams up with Godzilla and has a cartoon wrestling match with a christmas tree beetle from Lemuria and its space parrot friend. All this is accompanied by groovy flute music.

So that part is pretty great, but unfortunately it comes after about an hour of incoherent car chases, which drags the whole movie down a bit. Still fun though.

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#31 Godzilla vs. Hedorah - Yoshimitsu Banno 1971

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Seen in the vendors’ room at G-Fest XXVll:

MEGALON!

Ole Super-Cockroach got a lot of love at G-Fest this year.  Former actor Hiroyuki Kawase, who as a child played Rokuro, the little brother of Jet Jaguar’s inventor in Godzilla vs.Megalon (and who also played Ken Yano in Godzilla vs. Hedorah/Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster) was one of the special guests at the convention.

photo by me