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May 7th, 2013: Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster

May7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Cops, Crime, Dinosaurs, Disaster, Event Film, Giant Insects, Hit Man, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes Tagged airplane, Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Akira Ifukube, alien possession, alien warning, assassin, assassination attempt, Bad Dubbing, Cassandra, cops, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, fishermen, Ghidorah, Godzilla, hanging from a cliff, Hiroshi Koizumi, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lady reporter, model airplane, Mothra, mountains, music summons the monster, plane crash, power outage, princess, prophecy, quotably bad dialogue, reporter, Rodan, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shock treatment, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, TV show, Yosuke Natsuki, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

March 7th, 2013: King Kong Escapes

Mar7 by professormortis

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6 Comments Posted in Adventure, Dinosaurs, Espionage, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "apes love blondes", Akira Ifukube, Akira Takarada, apes, Arthur Rankin Jr, cash-in, co-production, doppelganger, Eiji Tsuburaya, Eisei Amamoto, goofy monster suit, gorilla suit, Ishiro Honda, Japan, killer robots, King Kong, Mie Hama, Paul Frees, Rankin/Bass Productions, Rhodes Reason, robot servant, scientists, submarine, suitmation, T-Rex, the declining years, Toho, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka, uncharted island, United Nations

March 3rd, 2013: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla aka Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster aka Godzilla vs. The Bionic Monster

Mar3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Event Film, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, The Original, War with Aliens Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Anguirus, archaeological dig, archaeologist, doppelganger, Drive-In, fakeitonium, globe trotting, Godzilla, Interpol, Japan, Jun Fukuda, Kenji Sahara, killer robots, King Seesar, King Shisa, Masaru Sato, Mechagodzilla, music summons the monster, musical interlude, Okinawa, prophecy, psychic, rip-off, scientists, space titanium, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

March 1st, 2013: Mosura tai Gojira aka Mothra vs. Godzilla aka Godzilla vs. The Thing

Mar1 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Puppetry Tagged Akira Takarada, amusement park, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, evil businessman, Godzilla, Hiroshi Koizumi, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Mechagodzilla, photographer, psychic, reporter, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

February 15th, 2013: Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster

Feb15 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Crustaceans, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, bank robbers, Eiji Tsuburaya, fishermen, Godzilla, Hal Linden, Japan, Kumi Mizuno, Masaru Sato, meltdown, Mothra, nuclear weapons, paramilitary group, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, troubled production, uncharted island, yacht

October 15th, 2012: Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People

Oct15 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Drama, Horror, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day Tagged addiction, AIP, Akira Kubo, allegory, Eiji Tsuburaya, fungi, hallucinations, Hiroshi Koizumi, insanity, Ishiro Honda, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, lone survivor, movie stars, mushrooms, musical interlude, radiation, sailors, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shipwrecks, Takeshi Kimura, temptation, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, transformations, twist, William Hope Hodgson

August 5th, 2012: Mothra (1961)

Aug5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Killer Plants, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, allegory, atomic, atomic testing, evil businessman, gods, insects, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, kidnapping, music summons the monster, musical interlude, natives, newspaper, nightclub, radiation, radiation mutation, reporter, Robert Dunham, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shipwrecks, stowaway, Takashi Shimura, telepaths, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins

June 5th, 2012: Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster aka Godzilla vs. Hedora

Jun5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Camp, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes Tagged acid trip, AIP, annoying children, annoying teenagers, Drive-In, Godzilla, hippies, Japan, kenny, night club, pollution, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, Takeshi Kimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

March 1st, 2012: Bijo to Ekitainingen aka The H-Man (1958)

Mar1 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Blobs, Cops, Crime, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi Tagged "kill it with fire", Akihiko Hirata, blobs, dancers, drug deal gone bad, drug dealers, drugs, Eiji Tsuburaya, fishermen, fishing boat, flamethrowers, ghost ship, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lounge act, Masaru Sato, mobsters, moll, musical interlude, night club, police procedural, radiation, radiation mutation, rip-off, scientists, sewers, Takeshi Kimura, Toho, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Yumi Shirakawa

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