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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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WHAT IS A KAIJU?

http://www.everythingkaiju.com/p/what-is-kaiju.html

GODZILLA WAS A METAPHOR FOR HIROSHIMA, AND HOLLYWOOD WHITEWASHED IT

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/godzilla-was-metaphor-hiroshima-hollywood-whitewashed-it-n1236165

HOLLYWOOD PORTRAYAL OF SCIENTISTS

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/hollywoods-portrayals-of-science-and-scientists-are-ridiculous/

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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