[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@M3S0soic](/creator/twitter/M3S0soic) "#GojiRewatch25 A policeman a scientist and a reporter walk into a bar. It's the full line up of the three usual protagonists during Toho's golden age all in one movie"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947727185038422444) 2025-07-22 18:35:22 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Princess Salno as the Venussian preaches in the Ueno Park near the statue of Saigo Takamori the leader of the Satsuma Rebellion. This is just next to (well a few hundred meters) from the Ueno Zoo where Haruo Nakajima watched animals for inspiration for Godzilla"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947683867558646158) 2025-07-22 15:43:14 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 The legendary duo Nick Adams and Akira Takarada. After returning to the States he gave interviews where he was the most loyal champion of Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya. The name of his character Glenn has to come from astronaut John Glenn. First American in orbit"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948038793350844824) 2025-07-23 15:13:35 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Ishiro Honda meets Mario Bava. So last year I gave it 9+ which is basically five stars. I don't know if it's fair or not but there's not really anything wrong with this movie. And it's even better if you don't watch it for a while so you don't remember every detail"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947058546199163031) 2025-07-20 22:18:26 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Last time it was the same score as for Frankenstein vs. Baragon. I feel it's still valid. With FvB having much better human scenes and TWotG with better effects scenes. This is one movie which both Ishiro Honda and Teruyoshi Nakano didn't like that much"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948134542897717758) 2025-07-23 21:34:04 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Ebirah is the last movie to ever feature the people of Infant Island (besides the nod in KotM). Looks like their relations with the ouside world are stronger than before. Dayo is the only Infant Islander to ever be named so we have some idea about their names"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948456739076276682) 2025-07-24 18:54:21 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Look how busy this shot is. Mothra vs. Godzilla was the first Godzilla movie which benefited from the brand new Oxberry Optical Printer which only Toho and Disney had at the time. I can't tell if Godzilla is a mechanical model in this shot. I guess so"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947360015293067393) 2025-07-21 18:16:22 UTC XXX followers, 7054 engagements "@Th3birdman15 @WallyNox6 @cosmic_marvel Yeah so stop talking about things you know nothing about"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947641167387955467) 2025-07-22 12:53:34 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "You know what I mean. How does this character treat that character and so on. It's by fair the bleakest film in the series. It's like proto-John Carpenter's The Thing so no wonder Toho offered him to direct a remake"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947059836237013466) 2025-07-20 22:23:34 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "Superman IS very well-known worldwide. He's wrong there. He's primarly an American icon and might be a tough sell overseas whether the abroad likes the US atm or not. Also whimsy outlandish style isn't popular everywhere. Regardlrss if Superman is a good film I haven't seen it"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947587841279635963) 2025-07-22 09:21:40 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Mothra would've gotten an Oscar because no movie released that year had better effects. It's just one fragment out of so many. Yuji Koseki's music is so different from Ifukube's who liked scoring music for the military but this is clearly music for Mothra. 1/2"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1946345636233666939) 2025-07-18 23:05:35 UTC XXX followers, 2278 engagements "@Seatopia_X There are scenes of Godzilla being fired at by tanks and the artificial lighting generator scene is also at night. At least one because there are several phases of his battle with the military"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947383164231356668) 2025-07-21 19:48:21 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 WWII prologue in Frankenstein vs. Baragon. I wish we got a cloes up on the Allied convoy I assume the model ships are the same used in Toho's war films. Released X days after the 20th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing it's staggeringly gutsy to show us this"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947771139222114480) 2025-07-22 21:30:02 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 I know this is a well-known clip but in Toho's 1961 comedy Cheers Mr. Awamori we see a whole storage room of props from Mothra including the 10m long larva suit and I always felt it was like looking at behind the scenes footage"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1946350408311443889) 2025-07-18 23:24:33 UTC XXX followers, 2598 engagements "#GojiRewatch25 The Matango monsters were designed by Shigeru Komatsuzaki to resemble a mushroom cloud. One monster looks different from X others. It was a one-piece suit probably modelled after Enoki mushrooms. Some sources say Shimeji but they weren't cultivated until the 70s"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947054008415269218) 2025-07-20 22:00:24 UTC XXX followers, 6872 engagements "@DangervilleTeam @Part_Time_Hero Nope. It's shocking that Dominion got one (someone was in panic mode). The extended cut went almost extinct with not just digital effects but also Peter Jackson retiring from feature films"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947717606951080289) 2025-07-22 17:57:18 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Another underrated Shobijin song (someone should collect them all from different eras and release as an EP) and it wasn't even written by Akira Ifukube. It's the closest Godzilla films come to musicals except the songs being there never feel out of place"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947716849807822936) 2025-07-22 17:54:18 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Ok I see my last year's score is pretty fair. Generous even. It's a movie with some of the best human storylines. Honda prefered classic sci-fi so I'm not surprised the monsters are forced to compete with a lot of other things"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948092714811109525) 2025-07-23 18:47:51 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 A great scene of Dogora destroying the Wakato Bridge in Kitakyushu in the south of Japan. Then the largest suspension bridge in that part of the world. Part of the sequence used cell animation. The Dogora puppet was filmed in a water tank and moved with water jets"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947418736555647472) 2025-07-21 22:09:42 UTC XXX followers, 9385 engagements "@redbumboo It's like 60s European New Wave of gothic horror. In Japanese context it's like later Shochiku horrors made at a more appropriate time when living was a bit more difficult and bleak due to urbanization"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947089568747925842) 2025-07-21 00:21:43 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Dogora came out in 1964 and the start of the film reflects that. The Japanese satellite we see at the beginning is a reference to Relay-1. A U.S. satellite launched in 1962 able to transmit American broadcasts in Japan. It was used during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947375888753967302) 2025-07-21 19:19:27 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@Th3birdman15 @WallyNox6 @cosmic_marvel This isn't what happened. Godzilla had no energy. Kong also couldn't beat him on his own but at full power Godzilla officially could've beaten Mechagodzilla"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947619319501713633) 2025-07-22 11:26:45 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 More Matango marketing. A large Matango statue greeted the movie-goers in 1963. I think Toho had a problem with how to sell this movie (another example in the tweet under this one) so this ended the Transforming Human series. 1/2"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1946998440514162719) 2025-07-20 18:19:36 UTC XXX followers, 41.6K engagements "@KaijuPictures Hard to believe it used to be the most popular Godzilla movie. It has a lot of merit and is the last movie from the "golden team" but also not as good as the others"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948071157413884300) 2025-07-23 17:22:11 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@inthe306 @Magistrotheriu1 @the_ason @SonnyBunch Like every other fridge you can buy has this now. ACs areavailable though they're not everyone needs them. Perhaps it's fallacious to treat Europe as a monolyth or maybe someone has some fantasy image of it"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948091258389303633) 2025-07-23 18:42:04 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "#GojiRewatch25 Still Invasion of Astro-Monster (don't blame me Toho insisted on this international title)"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948047931849724324) 2025-07-23 15:49:54 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "Traditionally Toho had a cross-promotion deal with their longtime partners at Bireley's. The drink is featured in a few scenes in the movie. This coloring book was also part of a contest. The winner got a year's supply of the drink. 2/2"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1946998445144694985) 2025-07-20 18:19:37 UTC XXX followers, 4811 engagements "#GojiRewatch25 The storm that hits the Kurata Recclaimed Area might be a reference to the Ise Bay Typhoon (Vera) that hit the same region as in the film including Nabeta Reclaimed Area exposing flaws in the settlement. Nearby city Nagoya is attacked by Godzilla in the film. 1/2"  [@M3S0soic](/creator/x/M3S0soic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947309546763854019) 2025-07-21 14:55:49 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
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"#GojiRewatch25 A policeman a scientist and a reporter walk into a bar. It's the full line up of the three usual protagonists during Toho's golden age all in one movie"
@M3S0soic on X 2025-07-22 18:35:22 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Princess Salno as the Venussian preaches in the Ueno Park near the statue of Saigo Takamori the leader of the Satsuma Rebellion. This is just next to (well a few hundred meters) from the Ueno Zoo where Haruo Nakajima watched animals for inspiration for Godzilla" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-22 15:43:14 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 The legendary duo Nick Adams and Akira Takarada. After returning to the States he gave interviews where he was the most loyal champion of Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya. The name of his character Glenn has to come from astronaut John Glenn. First American in orbit" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-23 15:13:35 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Ishiro Honda meets Mario Bava. So last year I gave it 9+ which is basically five stars. I don't know if it's fair or not but there's not really anything wrong with this movie. And it's even better if you don't watch it for a while so you don't remember every detail" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-20 22:18:26 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Last time it was the same score as for Frankenstein vs. Baragon. I feel it's still valid. With FvB having much better human scenes and TWotG with better effects scenes. This is one movie which both Ishiro Honda and Teruyoshi Nakano didn't like that much" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-23 21:34:04 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Ebirah is the last movie to ever feature the people of Infant Island (besides the nod in KotM). Looks like their relations with the ouside world are stronger than before. Dayo is the only Infant Islander to ever be named so we have some idea about their names" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-24 18:54:21 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Look how busy this shot is. Mothra vs. Godzilla was the first Godzilla movie which benefited from the brand new Oxberry Optical Printer which only Toho and Disney had at the time. I can't tell if Godzilla is a mechanical model in this shot. I guess so" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-21 18:16:22 UTC XXX followers, 7054 engagements
"@Th3birdman15 @WallyNox6 @cosmic_marvel Yeah so stop talking about things you know nothing about" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-22 12:53:34 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"You know what I mean. How does this character treat that character and so on. It's by fair the bleakest film in the series. It's like proto-John Carpenter's The Thing so no wonder Toho offered him to direct a remake" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-20 22:23:34 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"Superman IS very well-known worldwide. He's wrong there. He's primarly an American icon and might be a tough sell overseas whether the abroad likes the US atm or not. Also whimsy outlandish style isn't popular everywhere. Regardlrss if Superman is a good film I haven't seen it" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-22 09:21:40 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Mothra would've gotten an Oscar because no movie released that year had better effects. It's just one fragment out of so many. Yuji Koseki's music is so different from Ifukube's who liked scoring music for the military but this is clearly music for Mothra. 1/2" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-18 23:05:35 UTC XXX followers, 2278 engagements
"@Seatopia_X There are scenes of Godzilla being fired at by tanks and the artificial lighting generator scene is also at night. At least one because there are several phases of his battle with the military" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-21 19:48:21 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 WWII prologue in Frankenstein vs. Baragon. I wish we got a cloes up on the Allied convoy I assume the model ships are the same used in Toho's war films. Released X days after the 20th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing it's staggeringly gutsy to show us this" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-22 21:30:02 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 I know this is a well-known clip but in Toho's 1961 comedy Cheers Mr. Awamori we see a whole storage room of props from Mothra including the 10m long larva suit and I always felt it was like looking at behind the scenes footage" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-18 23:24:33 UTC XXX followers, 2598 engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 The Matango monsters were designed by Shigeru Komatsuzaki to resemble a mushroom cloud. One monster looks different from X others. It was a one-piece suit probably modelled after Enoki mushrooms. Some sources say Shimeji but they weren't cultivated until the 70s" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-20 22:00:24 UTC XXX followers, 6872 engagements
"@DangervilleTeam @Part_Time_Hero Nope. It's shocking that Dominion got one (someone was in panic mode). The extended cut went almost extinct with not just digital effects but also Peter Jackson retiring from feature films" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-22 17:57:18 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Another underrated Shobijin song (someone should collect them all from different eras and release as an EP) and it wasn't even written by Akira Ifukube. It's the closest Godzilla films come to musicals except the songs being there never feel out of place" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-22 17:54:18 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Ok I see my last year's score is pretty fair. Generous even. It's a movie with some of the best human storylines. Honda prefered classic sci-fi so I'm not surprised the monsters are forced to compete with a lot of other things" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-23 18:47:51 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 A great scene of Dogora destroying the Wakato Bridge in Kitakyushu in the south of Japan. Then the largest suspension bridge in that part of the world. Part of the sequence used cell animation. The Dogora puppet was filmed in a water tank and moved with water jets" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-21 22:09:42 UTC XXX followers, 9385 engagements
"@redbumboo It's like 60s European New Wave of gothic horror. In Japanese context it's like later Shochiku horrors made at a more appropriate time when living was a bit more difficult and bleak due to urbanization" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-21 00:21:43 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Dogora came out in 1964 and the start of the film reflects that. The Japanese satellite we see at the beginning is a reference to Relay-1. A U.S. satellite launched in 1962 able to transmit American broadcasts in Japan. It was used during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-21 19:19:27 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@Th3birdman15 @WallyNox6 @cosmic_marvel This isn't what happened. Godzilla had no energy. Kong also couldn't beat him on his own but at full power Godzilla officially could've beaten Mechagodzilla" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-22 11:26:45 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 More Matango marketing. A large Matango statue greeted the movie-goers in 1963. I think Toho had a problem with how to sell this movie (another example in the tweet under this one) so this ended the Transforming Human series. 1/2" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-20 18:19:36 UTC XXX followers, 41.6K engagements
"@KaijuPictures Hard to believe it used to be the most popular Godzilla movie. It has a lot of merit and is the last movie from the "golden team" but also not as good as the others" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-23 17:22:11 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@inthe306 @Magistrotheriu1 @the_ason @SonnyBunch Like every other fridge you can buy has this now. ACs areavailable though they're not everyone needs them. Perhaps it's fallacious to treat Europe as a monolyth or maybe someone has some fantasy image of it" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-23 18:42:04 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 Still Invasion of Astro-Monster (don't blame me Toho insisted on this international title)" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-23 15:49:54 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"Traditionally Toho had a cross-promotion deal with their longtime partners at Bireley's. The drink is featured in a few scenes in the movie. This coloring book was also part of a contest. The winner got a year's supply of the drink. 2/2" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-20 18:19:37 UTC XXX followers, 4811 engagements
"#GojiRewatch25 The storm that hits the Kurata Recclaimed Area might be a reference to the Ise Bay Typhoon (Vera) that hit the same region as in the film including Nabeta Reclaimed Area exposing flaws in the settlement. Nearby city Nagoya is attacked by Godzilla in the film. 1/2" @M3S0soic on X 2025-07-21 14:55:49 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements