SHUEISHA’s Shonen Jump+’s storyboarding app service World Maker is offering contests with Netflix and TOHO. For the Netflix contest, people interested need to create storyboards for a short no longer than 10 minutes. Needless to say, you need to use World Maker to create those …Read more »
Sad news in the world of Japanese film today. Sadao Iizuka, whose optical effects work graced legendary tokusatsu titles from Godzilla to Ultraman, has died at the age of 88. Iizuka’s cause of death was pneumonia. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Iizuka worked on effects …Read more »
It’s almost Valentine’s Day. If you’re still looking for a card for your significant other, Toho International, Inc. is suggesting you might like some of their kaiju cards. They explained on their site: “Toho International, Inc. has released an assortment of Valentine’s Day cards themed …Read more »
In anticipation of the upcoming Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, Japan’s TV Asahi held a night of Godzillabrations November 12. While the main event was a screening of Shin Godzilla, the network also held what it dubbed the Godzilla General Election. 10,000 fans from around …Read more »
After a ten-year hiatus, Godzilla is suddenly finding himself pretty busy. First came the 2014 Gareth Edwards-directed Hollywood version, then the upcoming Japanese reboot from Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi. Now it’s been announced Godzilla will face off against King Kong for the first time …Read more »
Godzilla saw his first cinematic outing in a decade earlier this year with the release of the Gareth Edwards-helmed Godzilla , but in Japan, he’s been in cinematic slumber since 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars . That’s set to change, with the announcement from Godzilla studio …Read more »
People of Earth, do NOT be alarmed! Vehicles using a state of the art G-reaction engine are being picked off mysteriously. Our greatest technologies are vanishing in the blink of an eye. Could the culprits behind these devilish disasters be space men from beyond the …Read more »
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