Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

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Hanging out with Yasuyuki Inoue this past week in Hollywood, and getting to look over the copies of his storyboards for HEDORAH, I can tell you that Godzilla did not rip out the eyes (because he was digging deep inside of the creature), since it clearly states that what was pulled out of the smog monster's body was indeed "Hedorium"... There is no mention on the notes next to the original storyboards of eyes (the same is true of the screenplay), but rather that it was Hedorium, from inside the creature's body.

This is the same story that director Yoshimitsu Banno told us when we visited him at Toho back in 1990 -- and every Japanese book with references to the film also states that the Hedorium is deep inside of Hedorah's body, and not in its eyes (Oru Kaiju Sashin Zukan; Kurosaki Shuppan, 1971). I know what Nakano has said, but the storyboard, screenplay, art director and film's director's stories all corraborate...

Another Mystery of the 20th Century!

Thanks for that pic Joe. That Godzilla suit is better looking than the one used in GRA. I just wish there was a better shot of Angilas. You can barely see him in that pic.

After seeing those pics, I makes me mad they never used those suits in any of the films!!

Meanwhile I know I'm going to sound like a dope here but what is Hedorium? What would that be akin to? Would that be like his heart or powersource? And didn't Hedorah start of as a swarm of microscopic alien organisms that later became small slugdy tadpole type creatures before merging into one large creature?

I'm sorry (for the fuzzy memory) but that last time I saw GVSTSM was 1981!!