#akiji kobayashi

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The iconic luchador Shocker combatants just grunting or making weird noises and saying "EEEEEH" was explained the episode after they made their debut?! Watching the original Kamen Rider series was a trip. Like it answered questions I did not know I need to be answered.

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Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (Kazuki Omori, 1991)

Cast: Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tokuma Nishioka, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Chuck Wilson, Richard Berger, Robert Scott Field. Screenplay: Kazuki Omori. Cinematography: Yoshinori Sekiguchi. Designer: Shinji Nishikawa. Film editing: Michiko Ikeda. Music: Akira Ifukube. 

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Getting Any? (1994)

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Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)

The time travel story of Godzilla vs King Ghidorah doesn't make any sense. I don't mean this in a 'well if you think about it it's inconsistent how it blah blah-' kind of way, I really just think it does not and was not particularly intended to make sense. This was the movie that made young me realize that the division between 'canon' and 'headcanon' for fiction is totally arbitrary. I just need to get this straight in my mind.

The inciting incident of the film is a big UFO appearing over Japan, containing time travelers from the future, who announce that Godzilla's going to destroy Japan soon, and they invite three 20th-centuriers to join them, so that they can go back in time to World War II when Godzilla was just a regular-sized (still pretty big) non-radioactive dinosaur, and stop Godzilla from being exposed to radiation.

First things first, I do not understand what the consequences of altering the past are going to be. The futurians' story is that Godzilla is going to destroy Japan and they want to help us.

Assuming the goal is to prevent Godzilla from destroying Japan in the 21st century, from the perspective of people from the 23rd century, they propose to do this by going to 1944, by way of a stop in 1991 to pick up a science fiction author, a dinosaur expert, and a girl who sometimes has psychic powers. Does the friendly visit imply that they are asking our consent, or need our help? Another explanation escapes me.

When they get to 1944, Godzilla is wounded by American naval bombardment, and they teleport him to the Bering Strait, where presumably there will not be many nuclear bombs. The 1991ers stay in the time ship, and serve no purpose I can discern.

Secretly, the futurians leave behind three genetically engineered animals, to be exposed to radiation in Godzilla's place and turn into King Ghidorah.

So, hold up.

What happens when you change past events via time travel? I am taking it as given that it is possible to change events via time travel, but to what degree and in what ways? Like, broad strokes.

They want to stop Godzilla from destroying Japan in the 21st century, so they stop Godzilla from being 'born' back in 1954 by moving him in 1944.

Consequentially, King Ghidorah (whom the futurians control) exists in place of Godzilla in the timeline. What that means is very vague, the thing that makes the most sense to me is that there has been a Marty McFly-style fade out of Godzilla in 1991 and a reverse fade-in of King Ghidorah; everybody still knows about Godzilla, the sci-fi author's publisher calls him to discuss his *book* about Godzilla, so the consequence of time travel has just been to create one monster in place of another, and move Godzilla to the Bering Strait. I can accept this, but why exactly did the futurians take along a bunch of jerks from the 20th century? Again, do they want their consent, or do they need their assistance? Maybe they needed to bring some 1991 people along like an 'anchor' to that time period - pure speculation on my part.

Either way, Emi, the futurian who has second thoughts about destroying Japan with a giant monster, makes a point of showing off the little ghidoras to Miki Saegusa, nominally the psychic character, who gets no bad vibes whatsoever from the futurians or the little ghidoras. Why does Emi show them to Miki at the point when she's still in on the plan to release them? She *executes* the plan to release them! What, narratively, does Miki in this movie?

The plan, as I understand it, is that the futurians are going to secretly control ghidora while offering a supercomputer defense system (which they presumably will also control? this also may be the computer controlling ghidora, but I'm unsure if translation issues have added to my confusion) to Japan.

If they have a trojan horse to offer, why didn't they just offer it in the first place to protect against Godzilla? Why the extra step of making ghidorah? Or why not do it the other way around?

Godzilla gets big and radioactive again somehow, and beats the crap out of Ghidorah, just really wrecks him, trucks him like the jobber he is and takes off his middle head. Emi goes back to the future, patches Ghidorah up with a cyborg body, and comes back to 1991 to handle Godzilla.

Hey hold up why didn't the futurians just make a big robot in the first place. Well because this isn't Godzilla vs King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla (but it coulda been).

My favorite scene in the movie is when Shindo is in his office, facing Godzilla, believing him to be the savior he was in 1944. But what is the nature of Godzilla? Shindo and his office explode in blue flame. I am Shindo, I have questions. Godzilla explodes me as if to say "this is a movie with a cool cyborg dragon and you are definitely overthinking it".

Wait hold up. They make a big todo about why they're not bringing Shindo back to the past, and they make a big point of how you can't have two of the same people at one time at once, and if you do that one of them has to vanish. I don't know if this is a weird half-remembered version of the grandfather paradox, but what if they just took 1944 Godzilla along with them to the future, since the futurians *want* to get rid of Godzilla permanently, why can't they do that? It can't be that he's too big, they have that whole big-ass ship.

And why can't they go back and redo it again? What can they and can't they do? What is the future like? What changes when you time travel to the past? How is it experienced by the people who *don't* time travel? Could it be that time has overwritten all the other Godzilla movies to be King Ghidorah in his place?

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6.5 / 10

Título Original: Shogun Assassin

Año: 1980

Duración: 85 min

País: Estados Unidos - Japón

Dirección: Robert Houston

Guion: Robert Houston, Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima, David Weisman. Manga: Kazuo Koike

Música: W. Michael Lewis, Mark Lindsay, Kunihiko Murai, Hideaki Sakurai

Fotografía: Chisi Makiura

Reparto: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Oki, Akiji Kobayashi, Shin Kishida, Akihiro Tomikawa, Shogen Nitta. Voz: Lamont Johnson, Marshall Efron

Productora: Coproducción Japón-Estados Unidos; Baby Cart, Toho, Katsu Production

Género: Action; Adventure

TRAILER:

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Science Patrol (Shin Ultraman 2022 vs Ultraman 1966) by 東宝MOVIEチャンネル

Ultraman 1966 - SSSP (Science Special Search Party)

Susumu Kurobe as Shin Hayata, the Ultraman

Akiji Kobayashi as Captain Toshio Muramatsu, the leader

Sandayū Dokumamushi as Daisuke Arashi, the marksman

Masanari Nihei as Mitsuhiro Ide, the inventor

Hiroko Sakurai as Akiko Fuji, the communications officer

Shin Ultraman 2022 - SSSP (S-Class Species Suppression Protocol)

Takumi Saitoh as Shinji Kaminaga, the Ultraman

Masami Nagasawa as Hiroko Asami, the analyst 

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Kimio Tamura, the leader 

Daiki Arioka as Akihisa Taki, the physicist 

Akari Hayami as Yumi Funaberi, the biologist 

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Kwaidan (1964)

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Bad movie I have Hara Kiri 1962

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Godzilla vs. Mothra (Takao Okawara, 1992)

Cast: Tetsuya Bessho, Satomi Kobayashi, Takehiro Murata, Keiko Imamura, Sayaka Osawa, Saburo Shinoda, Akiji Kobayashi, Megumi Odaka, Akira Takarada. Screenplay: Wataro Mimura, Akira Murao, Yukiko Takayama, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Minoru Yoshida, Kazuki Omori. Cinematography: Masahiro Kishimoto. Art direction: Takashi Sakai. Music: Akira Ifukube.

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Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi | 1964

In A Cup of Tea

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972) Kenji Misumi

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx 1972

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FUCK yeah!! Though this is actually a slightly sad occurrence -- the Immortal Kamen Rider Special is Akiji Kobayashi’s very last on-screen portrayal of Tachibana Tobei; though he would voice him in the comedic animated special Kamen Rider SD about 17 years later. This is our last time really seeing our good ol’ pal and mentor Tachibana in this saga, and I’m gonna miss him