Steve Ryfle

Steve Ryfle Occupation Film historian, author, audio commentator Notable work Bringing Godzilla Down to Size (2008)

Steve Ryfle is an American film historian, author and audio commentator. He became interested in kaiju films after watching Mothra vs. Godzilla on television as a child.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• The Women of Godzilla (2008)
• Bringing Godzilla Down to Size (2008) [with Ed Godziszewski]

Actor

• Animal Icons (TV 2004-2007) as himself, interviewee [episode 5, "It Came from Japan"]
• The Creator of Godzilla: Tomoyuki Tanaka (2007) as narrator [voice]
• The Women of Godzilla (2008) as narrator [voice]

Audio commentary

• Battle in Outer Space (1959) [2009 Sony DVD; with Ed Godziszewski]
• Mothra (1961) [2009 Sony DVD; with Ed Godziszewski]
• The H-Man (1958) [2020 Eureka! Blu-ray; with Ed Godziszewski]

Selected bibliography

• Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G" (1998)
• Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa (2017) [with Ed Godziszewski]
• Godzilla: The First 70 Years (2025) [with Ed Godziszewski]
• Godzilla vs. the World: The Politics of Japan's Disaster Monster (TBA)

Gallery

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  Ryfle (right) with composer Akira Ifukube (left) in 1996

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  Ryfle's signature

External links

• 2011 interview with Toho Kingdom
• 2017 interview with Toho Kingdom
• 2017 interview with Toho Kingdom regarding Ishiro Honda

References

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