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Scott Andrew Hutchins <[log in to unmask]>
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The films also involves crazy split-screen effects with as many as 30
different images at once, and of course, Godzilla flies.  Probably the most
surrealistic film of the series.  He also wrote the very surreal
_Nosutoradamu no Daiyogen_, directed by Toshio Masuda, which is available in
the U.S. only in a butchered TV cut with dubbing so bad most dubbing sounds
good by comparison.  Oddly enough, you can see Kaoru Yumi's nipple for a
split second, despite all the cuts.  Takashi Shimura plays a doctor who
aborts deformed fetuses without the consent of their mothers.

Scott Andrew Hutchins
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and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all...why then perhaps we
*must* stand fast a little--even at the risk of being heroes." --Sir Thomas
More, _A Man for All Seasons_, by Robert Bolt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Nuzzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: 40 for DVD--not likely


> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 08:48 PM, Scott Andrew Hutchins
> wrote:
> > Yes, and the theme music comes off Yoshimitsu Banno's _Birth of the
> > Japanese
> > Islands_.  Banno is under contract to direct three films for Toho
> > before he
> > can be a freelance director, but he prefers writing and assistant
> > directing,
> > so he's done a lot of animation scripts, including the 1982 _The
> > Wizard of
> > Oz_, and they never required him to, just made it a stipulation for
> > going
> > elsewhere.
> >
> A funny story about Banno: he directed only one Godzilla film, the
> bizarre, psychedelic Godzilla vs. Hedorah, better known in the USA as
> Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. The reason he was able to be so
> experimental with the film (it includes animated sequences, a black and
> white scene, the depiction of one character's LSD trip, etc.) was that
> Godzilla series producer Tomoyuki Tanaka was in the hospital. When
> Tanaka finally saw the finished film, he told Banno, "You've ruined the
> Godzilla series!" and dictated that Banno never direct a Godzilla film
> again.
>
> Chris
>
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