Kaiju Legend Ishiro Honda Meets the Legends of Tomorrow

When TV shows about time travel bring in historical figures, they tend to pick names the average viewer will instantly recognize: your JFKs, your H.G. Wellses, your Rosa Parkses. So I was quite surprised to learn that an episode of Legends of Tomorrow, "Tagumo Attacks!!!", was going to feature Eijiro Ozaki as director Ishiro Honda, a legend to kaiju fans and few others. I figured a CW superhero show would favor dramatic storytelling over historical accuracy, and it certainly did. The curious thing is that the episode would have really been onto something if it had focused on one of Godzilla's other Founding Fathers.

The Oldest Godzilla is New Again

This weekend, Godzilla celebrated his 64^th birthday by looking towards the past and the future. Godzilla: The Planet Eater, his latest epic, premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival, while a replica of the suit from his first film stomped around Godzilla Fest 2018 in Hibiya. Normally, the former would be much bigger news than the latter, but the first two entries in Polygon Pictures’ animated trilogy have already turned off many a fan, and it turns out that suit wasn’t just for photo ops. A trailer screened at the Fest, already making the rounds on social media, shows it razing a modern tokusatsu set. The end product is a short film which will debut at the Eiji Tsuburaya Museum on its opening day, January 11^th. Godzilla’s target is Sukagawa, the famed special effects director’s hometown.