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Varan in Varan The Unbelievable

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2024

By Josh Ryals

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Creature Feature...Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (1956) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #scifi #monstermovies #creaturefeature #godzilla #godzillakingofthemonsters #raymondburr #ripraymondburr #momokokochi #AkiraTakarada #takashishimura #akihikohirata #katsumitezuka #50s #vintage #vhs #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsascreaturefeature

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Godzilla vs. Mothra

In Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964), aka. Godzilla vs. the Thing – a giant egg washes up on shore – Mother’s! And Godzilla’s determined to destroy it! Continue reading Godzilla vs. Mothra

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Godzilla will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on November 5 via The Criterion Collection. Known in its native Japanese as Gojira, Toho's 1954 Japanese kaiju classic is celebrating its 70th anniversary.

Ishirō Honda directs from a script he co-wrote with Takeo Murata. Eiji Tsuburaya (Ultraman) helmed the special effects.Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura star with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as Godzilla.

Godzilla has been newly restored in 4K. A high-definition restoration of Terry Morse’s 1956 American reworking of the film, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, is also included. Both feature uncompressed monaural sound.

Bill Sienkiewicz designed the cover art. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary for both movies by film historian David Kalat

Interviews with actors Akira Takarada and Haruo Nakajima and special effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai

Interview with composer Akira Ifukube

Godzilla's photographic effects featurette, introduced by special effects director Koichi Kawakita and special effects photographer Motoyoshi Tomioka

Interview with Japanese film critic Tadao Sato

The Unluckiest Dragon - Illustrated audio essay by historian Greg Pflugfelder on the fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla

Trailers

Booklet with an essay by critic J. Hoberman

Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than 30 sequels.

Pre-order Godzilla.

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Kigurumi Microman, Original Godzilla

GODZILLA’S DATA [FIRST VERSION] 身長/50m Height: 50m 体重/20000 Weight: 20,000 tons 水爆実験の放射性因子を浴 びて地上に現われた、大戸島 の伝説の怪獣。口から瞬く放射熱線が 最大の武器。A legendary monster from Odo Island, awakened by the radioactive fallout from hydrogen bomb tests, it appears on land. Its greatest weapon is the intense radioactive Heat Ray fired from its mouth. STORY ゴジラ 作品紹介 Godzilla Movie Introduction 1954年公開作品 Released in 1954 太平洋に浮かぶ大戸島で原因不明の大災害が発生。島を訪れた調 近日の前に眠りから目覚めた巨大生物「ゴジラ」が現われる･･･。An unexplained disaster strikes Odo Island in the Pacific Ocean. Before a team of researchers arrives to investigate, the giant creature “Godzilla” awakens from its slumber… 製作:田中友幸 Produced by: Tomoyuki Tanaka 原作:香山滋 Original story by: Shigeru Kayama 監督:本多猪四郎 Directed by: Ishiro Honda 脚本:村田武雄、本多猪四郎 Screenplay by: Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda コジラ役スーツアクター:手塚勝己・中島 春雄 Suit actor for Godzilla: Katsumi Tezuka, Haruo Nakajima

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Haruo Nakajima (January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017) with Katsumi Tezuka (right) on the set of Ishiro Honda’s Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964).

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Your deadicated hosts travel to 1950s Japan to cover GOJIRA (1954) from director Ishiro Honda! Plus, a brief history of post-war Japan, the atomic bomb, and the origins of the daikaiju genre.

A brief context-setting of Japan 00:00; Film background 18:45; Synopsis 1:33:02; Discussion 1:46:27; Ranking 2:28:22

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King Kong vs. Godzilla | Ishirô Honda | 1962

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters Poster by Noger Chen & Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster Poster

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Katsumi Tezuka behind the scenes of Godzilla (1954).

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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster 1964

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Matango (1963)

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Momoko Kôchi and Katsumi Tezuka behind the scenes of Gojira (1954)

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Manipulating character rotation and direction is the primary interactive component of Luigi’s Mansion, with each action the player can perform with their primary tools (the Flashlight and the Poltergust) based entirely around the player rotating and directing each item at specific points in order to stun and capture ghosts. While simple to control in practice, the game very smartly makes these two items control in very similar fashions, so that A) their differences can become more apparent in terms of play (such as the fact that the ghost tends to pull you around when using the Poltergust), and B) place the focus of the game on twin-stick movement, an innovation new to Nintendo consoles at the time.

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Japanese actress Kōchi Momoko (河内 桃子) on the set of the original "Godzilla", a 1954 Japanese kaiju/giant monster film directed by Honda Ishirō, with special effects by Tsuburaya Eiji. https://youtu.be/KNmk4uTZ6vI

For the record, the man in the Godzilla suit is Tezuka Katsumi (手塚 勝巳, born 31 August, 1912 in Tokyo), an actor also known for appearign in "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) and "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1963).

In he original "Godzilla", the suit was also worn by another Japanese actor, Nakajima Haruo (中島 春雄, 1 January, 1929 – 7 August, 2017) who played Godzilla in twelve consecutive films, starting from the original "Godzilla" (1954) until "Godzilla vs. Gigan" (1972). He also played various other giant monsters in Kaiju films, including "Mothra" (1961) and "The War of the Gargantuas" (1966) and also appeared in a minor role (as a bandit) in the 1classsic 954 Kurosawa Akira film "Seven Samurai" (七人の侍).

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Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

Godzilla Raids Again (Japanese: ゴジラの逆襲, Hepburn: Gojira no Gyakushū, lit. 'Godzilla's Counterattack') is a 1955 Japanese kaiju film directed by Motoyoshi Oda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, it is the second film in the Godzilla franchise. The film stars Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, and Takashi Shimura, with Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla and Katsumi Tezuka as Anguirus. In the film, Japan struggles to survive Godzilla's return, as well as its destructive battle against its ancient foe Anguirus.

Executive producer Iwao Mori instructed producer Tomoyuki Tanaka to immediately commence production on a second Godzilla film, fearing to lose the momentum of the first film's success. Oda was chosen to direct the film as Ishirō Honda was busy directing Lovetide.

Godzilla Raids Again was released theatrically in Japan on April 24, 1955. A re-edited, English dubbed version was released theatrically in the United States on June 2, 1959, by Warner Bros. Pictures, under the title Gigantis, the Fire Monster.

The film was followed by King Kong vs. Godzilla, released on August 11, 1962.