
LOVE EXPOSURE director Sion Sono. Photo courtesy of NYAFF.
LOVE EXPOSURE director Sion Sono. Photo courtesy of NYAFF.
After numerous false starts, the YAMATO saga is successfully revived with the feature film SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO: RESURRECTION. © 2009 Space Battleship Yamato Film Partners
English promotional art for DETROIT METAL CITY. © 2008 Toho Co., Ltd. /Horipro Inc. / Hakusensha, Inc. /Sony Music Ent. (Japan) Inc. / Dentsu Inc. /d-rings Inc. /Parco Co., Ltd. /SDP, Inc. /Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd. /Yahoo Japan Corporation /Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. /Tsutaya Group.
On July 31st, the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta will screen a rare 35mm print of GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND, the original US version of GODZILLA VS GIGAN. Photo courtesy of VIZ Pictures. © 1972 Toho Co., Ltd.
DEATH NOTE`s Kenichi Matsuyama plays innocent musician Soichi Negishi and his death metal alter-ego Johannes Krauser II in DETROIT METAL CITY. © 2008 Toho Co., Ltd. /Horipro Inc. / Hakusensha, Inc. /Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. /Dentsu Inc. /d-rings Inc. /Parco Co., Ltd. /SDP, Inc. /Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd. /Yahoo Japan Corporation /Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. /Tsutaya Group.
Akira Takarada, star of GODZILLA and several sequels, takes to the stage in New York this weekend for the Japanese musical FREDDIE THE LEAF. © Freddie Company
Auntie (Yoko Minamida, right) needs the blood of virgins to give her eternal life in HOUSE, a very weird haunted house story by filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi. Photo courtesy of NYAFF. © 1977 Toho Co., Ltd.
Japan Society`s fourth annual JAPAN CUTS: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema begins July 1st. Photo courtesy of Japan Society. PARADE © 2010 2009 “Parade” Production Committee
Photo courtesy of New York Asian Film Festival.
Director Akira Kurosawa, ca. 1952. Photo courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library.
An ominous house beckons from a hilltop in writer/director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s horror movie HOUSE, one of the strangest films ever produced by Toho. Photo courtesy of Janus Films. © 1977 Toho Co., Ltd.
The evolution of the Iron Man armor on display in Tony Stark`s lab in IRON MAN 2, the sequel to 2008`s smash hit based on the Marvel Comics character. Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures. © 2009 MVLFFLLC
Yuriko Sinjou (Ayumi Sonoda) and Kenji Uozaki (Kouzou Nomura) apparently see something even more exciting than the giant monster rampaging behind them in a publicity paste-up for the early Toho daikaiju movie VARAN. Photo courtesy of Media Blasters. © 1958 Toho Co., Ltd.
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. will co-produce a new, big budget Hollywood movie based on Toho`s GODZILLA. © 2010 Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Toho Co., Ltd.
Director Akira Kurosawa, ca. 1952. Photo courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library.
Covers for the DVD, DVD Memorial Box and Blu-ray editions of ULTRA GALAXY: MEGA MONSTER BATTLE ©2010 Bandai Visual
The premiere screening of the newly restored, HD transfer of MOTHRA was recently held at Sony Pictures Studios. © 1961 Toho Co., Ltd.