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HASHIMA, Gifu Prefecture A grandmother’s gift led to Eito Hara’s decades-long fascination with “kaiju” monsters, his renown as a sculptor and alarmed looks from people shocked by his passion for the creatures. A special exhibition featuring about 10 lifelike sculptures of kaiju and dinosaurs created by Hara from newspapers and other everyday materials are on display at the Hashima Movie Museum here. Scattered across the venue are heads modeled after a carnivorous allosaurus, monsters from live-action movies, including Gamera and Gyaos, and other paper sculptures. Hara, 65, who lives in Gifu, was born in Gujo in the prefecture. His obsession with kaiju started after he asked his grandmother to buy him a Godzilla toy when he was a child. ....
Our Resident Expert Answers The World s Hardest Godzilla Questions Our Resident Expert Answers The World s Hardest Godzilla Questions By Hunter Cates/Feb. 23, 2021 6:51 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 12:04 am EDT Godzilla first arrived upon cinema s shores back in 1954. Nearly 70 years later, you could argue Godzilla is Japan s most significant pop culture export. Before there was Pokémon, Dragon Ball Z, Hello Kitty, Studio Ghibli, and a bazillion other Japanese characters, genres, and consumer goods, there was Godzilla. As Japan s first mainstream, post-war cultural export, the big guy opened Japanese culture to the world. Okay, so giving Godzilla partial credit for Sony or Toyota s success may be ....