Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we deep-dive into our first Kaiju movie. From Japan, it's the 1957 classic, The Mysterians. A gigantic robot from outer space wants to show its might.
WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more.
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NOTES
WHAT IS A KAIJU?
http://www.everythingkaiju.com/p/what-is-kaiju.html
GODZILLA WAS A METAPHOR FOR HIROSHIMA, AND HOLLYWOOD WHITEWASHED IT
HOLLYWOOD PORTRAYAL OF SCIENTISTS
TOKUSATSU WIKI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu
A BRIEF HISTORY OF POST-WAR JAPANESE CINEMA
https://seemsobvioustome.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/a-brief-history-of-postwar-japanese-cinema/
EFFECTS OF THE HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI BOMBINGS
https://www.icanw.org/hiroshima_and_nagasaki_bombings
THE HIDDEN FORTRESS TRAILER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vLgROxvxN4
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