Toho’s visual effects director who forged and shaped Godzilla’s look for the 1990s, Koichi Kawakita, passed away on December 5, 2014, with the family releasing the news today in Japan. The cause of death is being withheld at this time. Funeral and memorial services are to be announced. Kawakita graduated Nakano Broadcasting High School in […]
Missing: Last seen in GODZILLA FINAL WARS, 2004. SCOOP: It’s big and it’s terrible, and this incredible news broke just two hours ago in Japan and is spreading like wildfire in Japan. And while I didn’t see this one coming, and some may think it could be a hoax, the announcement was published in the […]
Original theatrical poster for GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH (1991). Rumor has it — repeat — rumor has it that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be issuing four double-feature discs of their Heisei and Millennium Godzilla titles on May 6th to capitalize on the frenzy created by the release of the upcoming Gareth Edwards re-imagining of […]
At a press conference on January 30th at Toei Studios in Tokyo, announcements were made for their 2014 line up, including the return of the 1970s TV series, KIKAIDER (which became a hit in Hawaii under the title “Kikaida”), created by the legendary mangaka Shotaro Ishimori. The final title for this remake was declared to […]
After 40 years Dan Moroboshi returns to Island airwaves when the first episode of ULTRAMAN LEO (1974) premieres on Hawaii’s KIKU-20 as part of their Japanese programming New Year’s Specials.
