Shusuke Kaneko
Veteran "Godzilla" actors Haruo Nakajima and Kenpachiro Satsuma, as well as Shusuke Kaneko (who would later direct ""), were also critical of the film and its character. Nakajima stated "its face looks like an iguana and its body and limbs look like a frog". Satsuma walked out of a screening of the film at fan convention G-Con '98 in Chicago, stating, "it's not Godzilla, it doesn't have his spirit". Toho publicist Yosuke Ogura later called TriStar's design a "disaster." TriStar's Godzilla was considered so different that the term "GINO", ("Godzilla In Name Only"), was coined by critic and Godzilla fan Richard Pusateri to distinguish the character apart from Toho's Godzilla.