Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!
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Author(s)
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Stuart Galbraith IV
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Dimensions
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8.2 x 0.5 x 10 inches
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Genre
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Critical Essay and Interview
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The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films
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Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! is a 1998 nonfiction book written by Stuart Galbraith IV and published by Feral House. Its main attraction is an oral history of Showa-era kaiju and sci-fi films, as told by the actors, directors, composers, cinematographers, technicians, and producers who worked on them.
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Contents
- Acknowledgments (p. 5)
- Table of Contents (p. 6)
- A Symphony of Destruction (p. 8) [introduction]
- Fantastic Films in Japan's Golden Age of Filmmaking (p. 17) [essay]
- Witnesses (p. 34) - Profiles of interviewees.
- Interviews
- (p. 43) After the War
- (p. 47) Up the Ladder
- (p. 49) The Birth of Godzilla
- (p. 53) The Old Man and Tokusatsu
- (p. 57) Kaiju Eiga in the 1950s
- (p. 59) Ishiro Honda, Kaiju Eiga Auteur
- (p. 62) Porky & Blackie
- (p. 64) Dubbing
- (p. 66) Tomoyuki Tanaka
- (p. 67) Teruo Ishii & Starman, Japan's Man of Steel
- (p. 69) The Hardest-Working Men in Show Business
- (p. 70) Eiji Tsuburaya at War
- (p. 72) Monster Music
- (p. 73) Gamera - The Children's Monster
- (p. 75) Acting with Monsters
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- Interviews [continued]
- (p. 77) Actors
- (p. 81) Into the Sixties
- (p. 86) Jun Fukuda
- (p. 87) Big Monsters
- (p. 90) Tokusatsu Part II
- (p. 92) Comedy Relief
- (p. 94) Big Fishes in a Little Pond
- (p. 97) Familiar Faces
- (p. 99) Invasion!
- (p. 100) Nick Adams
- (p. 102) The Case of the Missing Devil-Fish
- (p. 109) The Tale of Gappa
- (p. 111) "When He Died, I Didn't Know How to Live"
- (p. 111) Collapse and the 1970s
- (p. 118) Legacy
- Who's Who (p. 120) [additional actor/staff profiles]
- Filmography (p. 137) [capsule reviews]
- Selected Bibliography (p. 184)
- Chart o' Films (p. 186)
- About the Author (p. 191)
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