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David Kalat
I'm the film historian who wrote a critical history and filmography of Toho's Godzilla series. It's a mouthful, I know, but it was among the first serious studies of Godzilla movies published in English, and I'm gosh darn proud of it. So I'm going to be your guide through this film and its companion alternate cut, Godzilla King of the Monsters. As I hope my introductory anecdote makes clear, I take this stuff seriously.
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David Kalat
He studied Tsuburaya's personal print of King Kong, and then he went to the zoo to study how bears move. As far as he was concerned, this was an acting gig as serious a job as anything he'd previously done for Akira Kurosawa. Nakajima had been in Seven Samurai, and he'd also been in Stray Dog. Although he's co-credited with Katsumi Tezuka in this film, Nakajima has said that Tezuka almost never plays the role in any of the footage used in the final cut.
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