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The Important Cinema Club

#199 - Ishiro Honda: The Artist Who Directed Godzilla

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the films of Director Ishiro Honda, with a focus on GODZILLA (1954), FAREWELL RABAUL (1954) and his work with Akira Kurosawa. This week on the Patreon episode we discuss GAMERA: THE GIANT MONSTER. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every week! www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com

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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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