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Hey everyone!

Yours truly and our very own Mouth For War (Byrd) have started a Godzilla and all-things Kaiju related podcast. You can check out our Facebook page in my signature and our podcast here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kai ... 09095?mt=2


We hope to bring you news, behind the scenes pics, toy reviews, and some other cool stuff. You'll also get to listen to me hilariously (and unintentionally) butcher various Japanese names (and some English ones!)...plus we just have a jolly old time. Check it out!

Yes. LISTEN TO US!

Whoa, total slam on John Agar out of nowhere!

(he does suck)

Ha, there are a few more things coming...

This is my first foray into podcasting, so hopefully my comments get a little better as we go.

I know John Agar has a main role in the John Ford/John Wayne movie She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Agar's presence has really been the only reason I've avoided it.

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Maybe a third type in your "once you're out of your teens you become one of these two types of fan" is someone who becomes more of a fan of the genre than just a fan of Godzilla. For example: while I find I lot of the Godzilla's made in the '90s and '00s to be lacking, I love the Gameras and (now that I'm seeing them) the Ultraman stuff. I also have come to appreciate miniature work in old Hollywood films and stuff like Thunderbirds.

Byrd is the wyrd.

Not listened yet, but downloaded. Probably gonna wait for the drive to G-Fest to listen. Just because....8 hours. >_>

Cool man, hope you enjoy. 8 hours is a long drive. I hope to make it to G Fest eventually - going to Fandom Fest this year because of the guests (Godzilla suit actors, Ultraman, and Nishikawa was just announced) but I will trek out to Chicago eventually.

Here is the latest episode - http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/ta ... 678&cmd=tc

We cover our experiences at G Fest and Fandom Fest, plus the latest news about the Wanda merger with Legendary and the "whitewashing" controversy with The Great Wall movie. This was my favorite episode yet since I get to fanboy out about meeting the Godzilla suit actors.

NEW EPISODE: Kaiju Transmissions welcomes its first Guest of Honor by welcoming (all the way from Japan!) writer/director/critic/translator/photographer Norman England to the show! As many fans know, Norman wasn't only the director of the Bringing Godzilla Down To Size documentary, but he's also spent MANY hours on Japanese film sets, including Gamera 3 and many of the Godzilla films (in addition to countless other Japanese genre films). In this first part of a two part interview, Norman shares many stories from his 100+ days working with the Toho crews, as well as his experience making what is arguably the definitive Godzilla documentary. In addition to that Norman also tells us about several books he's working on, nationalism, his thoughts on Shin Godzilla, and misconceptions that fans have about Japan. But first, we discuss Norman's inexplicable love of Howard the Duck and what it was like seeing movies in the torn down grindhouse theaters of 42nd Street in New York City back in the 80s.

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Interesting, im looking forward to part 2. The highlight was his brief talk about the upcoming Godzilla animation, the low point was saying that not liking Shin Godzilla was equivalent to speaking out against the Iraq War post 9/11.

I do think that "Shin Godzilla = Nationalism" is just as reductive as "Gojira = Nuclear Bomb" - it ignores all nuance of the film and gets hung up almost entirely on a few lines regarding Article 9 in the first act of the film. In fact I would say that most of what people point to as "nationalism" would be better characterized as "humanism", in which case I see Shin Godzilla has more in common philosophically with American monster films like Pacific Rim than with other Godzilla films like Monster Zero.

Yeah. I understand where the participants are coming from, and there's a wealth of information here, but some of the dots connected seem a bit tenuous, and elements of the film that contradict the thesis ignored - there's a bit of discussion of that in the Shin political analysis episode, but it's hand waved away.

And besides: if Anno made a nationalistic film Hayao Miyazaki wouldn't allow him to hang out anymore!

Fascinating interview.

Really, really, really liked the Norman interview pt. 2.

Thanks, Gents. We are hoping to have a few more interviews coming in the near future - one of which has already been confirmed...stay tuned!

NEW EPISODE! GODZILLA SPEAKS! On a very special episode, Matt and Nick Poling (of The Monster Report) sat down with suit actor and stuntman Tom Kitagawa! Kitagawa is best known for playing Godzilla in five of the six Millennium series films, playing King Ghidorah in Mothra 3, and playing many of the heroes in Toei's Sentai series. Recorded at the Days of the Dead convention in Indiana, Matt and Nick chat with Mr. Kitagawa about his start in Battle Fever J, stunt work on the Sentai shows, the challenges of playing Godzilla, working in TV vs film, winding down after a long shoot, recovering from his recent surgery, and more!

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I never even knew Kitagawa or Nakajima going to be in the Midwest! Shame, it's like a four hour trip to Indy. Pissed I missed it.

Hey everyone!

We've been busy at Kaiju Transmissions, so I wanted to give a quick update! Below you will find upcoming and recently released episodes.


Upcoming Episodes:
Interview with Sonny Chiba
Interview with Kenji Ohba (Space Sheriff Gavan)
Interview with Ed Godziszewski and Steve Ryfle about their upcoming book, Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
Interview with John LeMay about his book, The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films
Interview with Nicolas Ciccone, who did the commentary and helped on the restoration for upcoming Blu Ray release of The Lost World (1925)


Plus a few other surprises...

Latest episodes:
Interview with Ed Holland of Monster Attack Team
Haruo Nakajima Tribute
G-Fest Interivews with composer Michiru Oshima (GXM, Tokyo SOS), director/SPFX Director Kiyotaka Taguchi (Ultraman X, Ord, and Geed), and assistant director Kazuhiro Nakagawa (Shin Godzilla) - can also be found in text form at our friends Maser Patrol -
Tom Kitagawa Interview @ Days of the Dead
G-Fest Recap
Akira Ifukube spotlight with John DeSentis and Erik Homenick (Ifukube's official biographer)
G-Gest Panel Live - Gamera vs. Gyaos (video also available here) -



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