#199 - Ishiro Honda: The Artist Who Directed Godzilla
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Justin Cluyn. |
| 0:06.0 | Herdei with Will Sloan. |
| 0:07.0 | Dan-d-dun-d-d-d-da-da-da-da-d-da. |
| 0:11.0 | What's that? |
| 0:12.0 | Godzilla's on his way. |
| 0:15.0 | No, a boat's leaving poor. |
| 0:18.0 | Or I guess the army's coming in. |
| 0:20.0 | Jagar. Jackar. Jack army's coming in. Jagar. |
| 0:21.9 | Jack Gaggar. |
| 0:23.0 | Jack Nicholson. |
| 0:24.9 | You're listening to our, oh, wait, it's not our Godzilla episode. |
| 0:27.9 | That's coming next week, folks. |
| 0:29.4 | We're talking about the director of the first film, though, Ishiro Honda. |
| 0:34.1 | Godzilla's father, although, like any success, Godzilla had many fathers. |
| 0:38.8 | That's right. |
| 0:39.6 | Because Ashira Honda, along with effects supervisor, Aiji Suburaia, producer Tamayuki Tanaka, |
| 0:46.2 | probably also you could say the musician Akira Ificouba. |
| 0:50.4 | They were all, you know, part of the gene pool. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah, of the kind of fathers that |
| 0:57.0 | births the original Godzilla. And a lot of them continuing to kind of foster him, even though |
| 1:02.2 | he turned into a child they did not want. But in Godzilla lore, in the Godzilla imagination, |
| 1:08.3 | Ishiro Honda is regarded as, I guess, the artist, the genius, |
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