Akihiko Hirata

Godzilla (1954)

Godzilla (1954)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 16, 2001Giant Atomic Monster
The very first Godzilla film. Essentially a copy of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, it has incredibly stark effect despite the primitiveness of the effects. In it you can see Japanese nation struggling to expiate the pain of the Atomic Bomb.
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The Mysterians (1957)

The Mysterians (1957)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 14, 2002Japanese Alien Invader Film
Ishiro Honda and Toho, the creators of Godzila, turn their attentions to the alien invasion film - the first Japanese entry in the great 1950s SF alien invader fad - and deliver all the same colourful mass destruction we expect
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Secret of the Telegian (1960)

Secret of the Telegian (1960)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 10, 2018Teleporting Super-Villain
Toho Films of the 1960s are best known for the Godzilla films and assorted monster bashes. This is one of their non-monster films, part of a spate of mutant supervillain films concerning a villain who has invented a teleportation machine and is using it to exact revenge
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Godzilla vs the Cosmic Monster (1974)

Godzilla vs the Cosmic Monster (1974)
Rating: ★
Apr 16, 1999Japanese Monster Bash
The fourteenth Godzilla film, noted for the introduction of Mecha-Godzilla, a robot copy of Godzilla that became a recurring nemesis. By this point in the series, the effects and quality of production had become very shabby
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Terror of Mechagodzilla (1976)

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1976)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 16, 2000Japanese Monster Bash
The fifteenth Godzilla film, the last of the classic series, featuring a return of Mechagodzilla from the previous film. Original director Ishiro Honda returns to the series and reclaims it from the juvenile focus it had taken over the last few films to make the best entry of the 1970s
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