Japanese Cinema Archive

This is another in the new series of Godzilla movies that Toho began making in the 1990s. These were supposed to be bigger and better, with cutting edge special effects,…

So many times the bean counters in the film business get criticized for inhibiting great art. Such and such movie could’ve been so much better if we had the money…

Godzilla’s appearance in his twenty-fourth movie is distinguished chiefly by him pretty much standing around biting a big dragonfly. Toho, having been at this for something like forty years, knows…

This is actually the third movie that features Godzilla’s chrome Doppelganger, though it is the first time humans and not aliens have piloted it. They don’t have any better results…

Back in the 1970s, the local theater where I lived used to run these special summer matinée series where you got into some older, kid-oriented movie for about a buck….

Here’s a movie that was so bad that once the studio got a gander at it, they put director Yoshimitsu Banno on suspension amidst concerns that he had irrevocably damaged…

This movie, the twelfth of Godzilla’s career, finds him battling monsters from outer space in an effort to thwart some man-sized cockroach aliens’ plans to take over Earth. I guess…

Way back in 1995 you may recall hearing a whole bunch hooey about how Godzilla was finally going to die once and for all. He was facing a monster called…

This is the very first sequel to Godzilla and easily takes its place in the Godzilla pantheon as a classic since it’s the first time that Anguirus gets completely humiliated…