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DAIKAIJU EIGA “G” - Robo arrives to take on Garaemon!

Behind-the-scenes on DAIKAIJU EIGA “G”.

Soldiers flee from Garaemon’s advance in DAIKAIJU EIGA “G” (2009).

Japanese DAIKAIJU EIGA “G” trailer.

Selected stills from 2009’s DAIKAIJU EIGA “G”.

The monster “G” makes his presence known in DAIKAIJU EIGA “G” (2009).

The cover of the Japanese “DVD Version” of DAIKAIJU EIGA “G”.

Today I’m going to do a mini-Film Focus on DAIKAIJU EIGA “G”, the 2009 kaiju short directed by Kiyotaka Taguchi. This is the film’s Japanese poster.

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…this coming Wednesday, when I will get my shit together and start running this blog properly again. In the meantime, feel free to submit Kaiju Confessions, any questions or queries, and generally anything really!

I think saying only kaiju movies from Japan are “real” kaiju movies is like saying only Chinese martial arts films are “real” martial arts films. It’s a genre. The culture that invented a genre doesn’t have exclusive rights to it. Otherwise, only America could make westerns and only England could make swashbucklers( or Spain, or wherever the swashbuckler started).

I entirely disagree. Non-Japanese monster movies are NOT kaiju films - they are monster movies. The whole point of labeling these films as kaiju pictures is to differentiate them from their Western world counterparts. Japan didn’t invent the giant monster movie, but it made its own sub-genre of it, and that’s the kaiju film. What you’re saying is essentially like calling THE SEARCHERS a spaghetti-western.