Kaiju | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-10-04

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00:01:16 1 Origins
00:03:30 2 Terminology
00:03:39 2.1 iKaijū/i
00:04:38 2.2 iDaikaiju/i
00:05:32 2.3 iKaijin/i
00:05:59 2.4 iSeijin/i
00:06:28 2.5 iKaijū eiga/i
00:07:08 3 Monster techniques
00:08:42 4 Selected media
00:08:52 4.1 Films
00:17:32 4.2 Comics
00:18:40 4.3 Video games
00:20:07 4.4 Board games
00:20:22 4.5 Television
00:26:41 4.6 Other kaiju
00:26:57 5 Other appearances
00:32:15 6 See also



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Kaiju (怪獣, kaijū, from Japanese "strange beast") refers to a Japanese genre of films which feature giant monsters. The term kaiju can also be used to describe the giant monsters themselves, which are usually depicted attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters, or other kaiju, in battle. The kaiju genre is a subgenre of tokusatsu (特撮, "special filming") entertainment, and can be considered synonymous with the term "Japanese monster movies". The term kaiju originated from the Chinese text Classic of Mountains and Seas.
The 1954 film Godzilla is commonly regarded as the first kaiju film. Kaiju characters are often somewhat metaphorical in nature; Godzilla, for example, serves as a metaphor for nuclear weapons, reflecting the fears of post-war Japan following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Lucky Dragon 5 incident. Other notable examples of kaiju characters include Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Gamera.