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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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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.

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Toho SFX Movies Authentic Visual Book Vol. 12 Varan 1958.

This volume of the series focuses on my favorite neglected kaiju in Toho’s menagerie, Varan.

Not only are the pages filled with various detailed shots of the Varan costume, but there are also photographs of the Varan hand puppet and the infamous flying Varan puppet.

The photos are all of the “behind-the-scenes” type, and document the various stages of the film’s production.  Heck, we even get a few photos of the man himself, Haruo Nakajima, suiting up as Varan.

But did you also know that actor Katsumi Tezuka played Varan in the water scenes when it attacks the fishing boat?  I didn’t until I read this book.

This volume, like the rest of the series, is available for approximately $20.00 US from The Godzilla Store.