by Benjamin Haines » Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:51 pm
Check this out: https://archive.org/details/project-gmk-2001
This guy with the archive.org account "Obscure Archives" has been using OpenAI's Whisper tool to generate English subtitles for a lot of kaiju-related Japanese documentaries and featurettes. He just recently posted this translation of Project GMK, the nearly two-hour documentary from the second disc of Toho's three-disc GMK DVD box set released in Japan back in 2002.
I've watched the whole thing and it's fantastic! There are a few wonky subtitles here and there but the translation seems very well done for the most part. This documentary is packed with behind-the-scenes footage from the making of GMK, featuring interviews with Shusuke Kaneko, Shogo Tomiyama and other cast & crew members.
For reference, here's an archive of the old Tokyo Monsters review of Toho's GMK DVD box set: https://web.archive.org/web/20060109225219/http://www.tokyomonsters.com/dvdreview-R2-Toho-gmk.php