You probably know Godzilla — the "king of monsters." But did you know that he is one of many fictional Japanese monsters? This special monster group is called kaiju. In kaiju movies, the giant ...
What happened there was a catastrophic disaster that shook the nation of Japan to its core and contributed to the creation of one of the most iconic monsters in cinema history. The history of the ...
Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity that goes beyond cinematic spectacle. For some, Godzilla is the pink ...
Meyer gradually spent more time working on his illustrations, and he came up with the idea of drawing Japanese monsters during the Halloween season in October that year. “I learned there were ...
“Juhyo” ice monsters once inhabited a wide area of the Japanese archipelago but are steadily disappearing due to climate change. The phenomenon, rarely observed outside the country, is a ...