Information: - , nicknamed Hurricane Ryu, is a Japanese illustrator, comic book author, writer, director, martial artist and an actor. His real name is Hidemi Miyata, born in Tochigi Prefecture. - Takao Okawara ( , born December 20, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director, writer and producer. - Overview. Name. King Caesar's name and appearance are based on Shisa, which are artistically embellished stone lion statues common in Okinawa, where the film "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla" took place. They are an Okinawan variation on the Chinese guardian lion (; Shishi, meaning "Stone Lion"), which in turn originates from Buddhist tradition in India, where lions are native. Shisa only loosely resemble actual lions on account of being based on second-hand descriptions by people who'd never seen one in person. In the 1970s, general East Asian folklore were relatively unknown to Western audiences, which resulted in the translators interpreting name "Shisa" to be a Japanization of the name "Caesar". Toho has since trademarked it, making "King Caesar" the character's official English name. - Godzilla vs. Gigan, released in Japan as , is a 1972 Japanese science-fiction kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano, the film starred Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, and Minoru Takashima. The twelfth film of the "Godzilla" series, this film featured the return of Godzilla's foe King Ghidorah. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka was displeased with the previous film, "Godzilla vs. Hedorah", and wanted to return the series to the more traditional route of well known monsters and an alien invasion plot. This was the last film in which Godzilla was portrayed by Haruo Nakajima, who had played the character since the first film in 1954. - , is a Japanese special effects director, most notable for his contributions to the "Godzilla" film series and other "tokusatsu" films. Nakano was a special guest at G-Fest XI, where he was the recipient of the Mangled Skyscraper Award. - Concept and creation. Mechagodzilla was conceived in 1974 as a more serious villain than its immediate two predecessors, Gigan and Megalon, whose films were considered creative disasters. According to Tomoyuki Tanaka, Mechagodzilla was inspired by both Mechani-Kong from the previous Toho film "King Kong Escapes" and the robot anime genre, which was popular at the time. Effects director Teruyoshi Nakano also felt that a mechanical monster was cheaper to construct than the mutated animals Godzilla had previously faced. As the resulting "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla" proved to be a greater critical success than previous 1970s Godzilla films, the character was revived in 1975's "Terror of Mechagodzilla". The film's screenplay was based on the winning entry of a story-writing competition won by Yukiko Takayama, who continued the darker tone of the previous film by adding the subplot of Mechagodzilla being cybernetically connected to a young woman. Mechagodzilla's design remained largely unchanged from its previous appearance, though it was made to look thinner and more angular, with a darker sheen and an MG2 insignia emblazoned on its upper arms. The film's original draft was going to have Mechagodzilla destroy Tokyo utterly, though the destruction was cut down for budgetary reasons. - , is a 1993 Japanese science fiction tokusatsu kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. The film is directed by Takao Okawara and is the 20th film in the "Godzilla" franchise and the fifth film in the Heisei series. Despite its Japanese and English titles, the film is neither a remake or sequel to 1974's "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla". - An English dubbed version, titled "Gigantis, the Fire Monster", was heavily re-edited and released theatrically in the United States by Warner Brothers in 1959 on a double bill with "Teenagers from Outer Space" (or with "Rodan" in some areas). This version features heavy alterations from the Japanese original. The English dub was later retitled "Godzilla Raids Again" (at Toho's request) for home video in the early 1980s and continues to be marketed in English-speaking markets as such, but in the 1960s and 1970s it was always shown on U.S. television as "Gigantis the Fire Monster". - Although King Ghidorah's design has remained largely consistent throughout its appearances (an armless, golden-scaled winged dragon with three heads and two tails), its origin story has varied from being an extraterrestrial planet killing dragon, a genetically engineered monster from the future, or a guardian of ancient Japan. The character is usually portrayed as an archenemy of Godzilla and Mothra, though it has had one appearance as an ally of the latter. Despite rumors that Ghidorah was meant to represent the threat posed by China, which had at the time of the character's creation just developed nuclear weapons, director Ishiro Honda denied the connection and stated that Ghidorah is simply a modern take on the dragon Yamata no Orochi. - The Antarctic (US English , UK English or and or ) is a polar region, specifically the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises in the strict sense the continent of Antarctica and the island territories located on the Antarctic Plate. In a broader sense the Antarctic region include the ice shelves, waters, and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence, a zone approximately wide varying in latitude seasonally. The region covers some 20% of the Southern Hemisphere, of which 5.5% (14 million km) is the surface area of the Antarctic continent itself. All of the land and ice shelves south of 60S latitude are administrated under the Antarctic Treaty System. In a biogeographic sense, the Antarctic ecozone is one of eight ecozones of the Earth's land surface. - Terror of Mechagodzilla (released in Japan as ) is a 1975 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Ishir Honda. It is the 15th film in the "Godzilla" franchise, the final film in the Shwa series, and serves as a direct sequel to 1974's "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla". The film was the least successful of the entire Godzilla franchise. - Mothra is one of Tohos most popular monsters, and second only to Godzilla in its total number of film appearances. Polls taken during the early 1990s indicated that Mothra was particularly popular among women, who were at the time the largest demographic among Japan's movie-going audience, a fact that prompted the filming of 1992's "Godzilla vs. Mothra", which was the best-attended Toho film since "King Kong vs. Godzilla". IGN listed Mothra as #3 on their "Top 10 Japanese Movie Monsters" list, while "Complex" listed the character as #7 on its "The 15 Most Badass Kaiju Monsters of All Time" list. - An American production team produced a heavily altered English version that used new scenes, sound and dubbing. The American production was released theatrically in the United States in the summer of 1963 by Universal Pictures. - A metaphor is a figure of speech that refers, for rhetorical effect, to one thing by mentioning another thing. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Where a simile compares two items, a metaphor directly equates them, and does not use "like" or "as" as does a simile. One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature is the "All the world's a stage" monologue from "As You Like It": - Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest. - The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. - Antarctica (US English , UK English or ) is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At , it is the fifth-largest continent. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages in thickness, which extends to all but the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula. - Overview. In "King Kong Escapes", Gorosaurus is an inhabitant of Mondo Island, the film's primary setting. It attacks and attempts to devour the leading female character, Susan Watson. King Kong arrives to save her and fights Gorosaurus. Kong eventually breaks the dinosaur's jaws, killing Gorosaurus. - Overview. Showa series. According to the English subtitles of the 1955 Japanese language film "Godzilla Raids Again", Anguirus (spelled "Angilas" in that film) was properly called an "angilosaurus," (which in Japanese is pronounced roughly the same as "ankylosaurus"), a dinosaur described as "one of the stronger dinosaurs that lived in the prehistoric era." It's described in a textbook by Polish world animal specialist Plateli Hondon as "one of the few creatures that had a thorough hatred for war-like predators," which explains Anguirus' eagerness to fight Godzilla. The dinosaur angilosaurus lived (according to the film) from 150-70 million years ago, and its remains were affected by the same hydrogen bombs that awoke Godzilla. In the English-dubbed version of "Godzilla Raids Again", the name of the dinosaur is pronounced ""ANG-will-o-Saw-rus," and given the sub-moniker "Killer of the Living." They ruled the Earth at one time, according to the film, then disappeared suddenly. From an unnamed textbook in the movie (the same book that in the Japanese-language version was written by Hondon), a scientist reads that these creatures (the angilasaurs) may return from hibernation due to radioactive fallout. Anguiras is said to have "brains in several parts of its body, including the head, abdomen, and the chest." - An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere. On Earth, an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean, which covers almost 71% of its surface. These are, in descending order by area, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern (Antarctic), and Arctic Oceans. The word "sea" is often used interchangeably with "ocean" in American English but, strictly speaking, a sea is a body of saline water (generally a division of the world ocean) partly or fully enclosed by land. - Mythology. Yamata no Orochi legends are originally recorded in two ancient texts about Japanese mythology and history. The ca. 680 AD "Kojiki" transcribes this dragon name as and ca. 720 AD "Nihongi" writes it as . In both versions of the Orochi myth, the Shinto storm god Susanoo or Susa-no- is expelled from Heaven for tricking his sister Amaterasu the sun-goddess. - M.E.Ch.A. (Spanish: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan; "Chicanx Student Movement of Aztlan", the x being a gender neutral inflection) is an organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. The acronym of the organization's name is the Chicano word "mecha", which is the Chicano pronunciation of the English word, "match" and therefore symbolic of a fire or spark; "mecha" in Spanish means fuse or wick. The motto of MEChA is 'La Union Hace La Fuerza - The Arctic (or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost-containing tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places. - Godzilla Island ( Gojira Airando ) was a television show spinoff of the Godzilla franchise . It premiered on October 6 , 1997 , and ran for a total of 256 three - minute episodes , finishing on September 30 , 1998 . Set in 2097 , most of Earth 's kaiju ( monsters ) live on an island out in the Pacific Ocean called Godzilla Island , which is monitored by G - Guard . The creatures living on the island include Godzilla , Godzilla Junior , Mothra , Mothra Leo , Rodan , King Ghidorah , Mecha - King Ghidorah , Mechagodzilla ( Heisei version ) , Anguirus , Gigan , Hedorah , Destoroyah , Baragon , King Caesar , Moguera , Megalon , Gorosaurus , Kamacuras and Jet Jaguar . Torema and Zaguresu 's kaiju ( or monsters ) include a black - coloured Mechagodzilla ( Showa version ) , a fully mechanical Mecha - King Ghidorah ( called Hyper - Mecha King Ghidorah ) , Kumasogami ( titled '' Dororin '' in the show ) and Gororin ( a sentient ball - shaped cactus ) . An unusually large number of tie - in toys were produced for this series by Bandai toys , because this series was , in fact , created through the use of action figures . A CD of theme music , mostly composed by Akira Ifukube , was released in 1997 by Polygram entitled ' Welcome To Godzilla Island ' . In 2007 , a 4 - disc DVD set including every episode of the show was released in Japan at a price of 16000 yen ( approx. $ 160 ) . - From the Edo period, they started to be called "guardian dogs" in general in mainland Japan. Gender is variously assigned to the shisa. Some Okinawans believe the male has his mouth closed to keep bad out of the home, while the female has her mouth open to share goodness. Others believe the female has her mouth closed to "keep in the good", while the male has his mouth open to "scare away the bad". (Compare this to the distinction between male and female guardian lions in Chinese culture.) - , also known as the Smog Monster, is a kaiju monster who first appeared in Toho's 1971 film "Godzilla vs. Hedorah". The monster was named for , the Japanese word for sludge, slime, vomit or chemical ooze. - With the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the "Lucky Dragon 5" incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear weapons. As the film series expanded, some stories took on less serious undertones portraying Godzilla as an antihero while other plots still portrayed Godzilla as a destructive monster; sometimes the lesser of two threats who plays the defender by default but is still a danger to humanity. With the end of the Cold War, several post-1984 Godzilla films shifted the character's portrayal as a symbol of nuclear weapons to that of modern Japan's forgetfulness over its imperial past, natural disasters and the overall human condition. - Frankenstein Conquers the World (released in Japan as is a Japanese-American 1965 science fiction kaiju film co-produced by Toho and UPA. The film is directed by Ishir Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, with Koji Furuhata as Frankenstein and Haruo Nakajima as Baragon. This was the first of two Toho/UPA co-produced films featuring giant-sized Frankenstein monsters. A sequel called "War of the Gargantuas" was produced the following year. The film was released theatrically in the United States in the Summer of 1966 by American International Pictures. - Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney. - Overview. Name. The Japanese name "Radon" is a contraction of "pteranodon". - Conception. During the production of "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II", the decision to introduce a character similar to Godzilla's first adopted son, Minilla, was made in order to appeal to the largely female audience that made "Godzilla vs. Mothra" a financial success, despite objections by director Takao Okawara, who held a low opinion of the 1960s movies the character had previously been featured in. Okawara redesigned the new Baby Godzilla as more dinosaur-like than its predecessor, but strove to make it physically appealing in order to contrast it with the more brutish-looking Mechagodzilla. Baby Godzilla was portrayed by Hurricane Ryu, who wore a full-body suit with an animatronic mouth and eyes. The skin was also made smoother than Godzilla's in order to imply that Baby Godzilla had yet to be exposed to the mutagenic radiation that transformed its father. According to Godzilla suit actor Kenpachiro Satsuma, Godzilla Junior was not intended to be the literal son of Godzilla, but "the baby of a cousin." In an early draft for the film, Godzilla would have had soldiers injected into his bloodstream, who'd then trigger a nuclear meltdown which would have killed the monster, only to have the radiation absorbed by Baby Godzilla, who would have grown and subsequently defeated Mechagodzilla. - Overview. Showa. In "Son of Godzilla", a species of man-sized mantis lived on Sollgel Island. Later, a radioactive accident that occurred due to a weather experiment mutated the insects into even larger proportions. Now the size of buildings, they became known as Kamacuras. Three Kamacuras found a giant egg and cracked it open to find a baby Godzilla. Before they could eat the infant, Godzilla arrived on the scene and attacked. Godzilla killed two of the Kamacuras with the third one killed by the giant spider Kumonga. However, a fourth Kamacuras was seen living on Monster Island in "Godzilla vs. Gigan". - Overview. Showa series. In "Frankenstein Conquers the World", Baragon is a dinosaur which burrowed underground to escape the extinction of the dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures when they all died out. It adapted and survived. But when the sounds of a nearby factory disturbed and awakened it, it emerged from underground and attacked the factory. It later appeared at Shirane and destroyed the village. Then it emerged at a farm, where it ate the livestock. During these attacks, Baragon was not seen, so the mutant human Frankenstein was blamed. But there was a person who survived the destruction of the factory, claiming there was a second monster that had attacked the factory. When a small group of scientists searched for Frankenstein, an explosive woke Baragon from its sleep. It emerged to attack the scientists, but Frankenstein appeared to protect them from the monster. The two fought a climactic battle, with Frankenstein ultimately defeating Baragon by choking it and breaking its neck. In the end, a fissure appeared beneath the two and swallowed them both into the Earth. - Son of Godzilla, released in Japan as , is a 1967 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa (supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya), the film starred Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, and Akihiko Hirata. The eighth film in the "Godzilla" series, it was also the second of two island-themed Godzilla adventures that Toho produced with slightly smaller budgets than most of the Godzilla films from this time period. Continuing the trend of shifting the series towards younger audiences, the film introduced an infant Godzilla named Minilla. - King Kong Escapes (released in Japan as , is a 1967 Japanese-American science fiction kaiju film featuring King Kong, co-produced by Toho and Rankin/Bass. The film is directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Rhodes Reason, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with Haruo Nakajima as King Kong and Y Sekida as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus. The film was a loose adaptation of the Rankin/Bass Saturday morning cartoon series "The King Kong Show" and was the second and final Japanese-produced film featuring King Kong. "King Kong Escapes" was released in Japan on July 22, 1967 and released in the United States on June 19, 1968. What entity does 'godzilla island' has the relation 'original language of work' with?
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