Haruo Nakajima, was a Japanese actor, best known for portraying who, in twelve consecutive films, starting from the original "Godzilla" (1954) until "Godzilla vs. Gigan" (1972)?
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Haruo Nakajima Haruo Nakajima (中島 春雄 , Nakajima Haruo ) (January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017) was a Japanese actor, best known for portraying Godzilla in twelve consecutive films, starting from the original "Godzilla" (1954) until "Godzilla vs. Gigan" (1972). He also played various other giant monsters in kaiju films, including "Mothra" and "The War of the Gargantuas", and also appeared in a minor role in the Akira Kurosawa film "Seven Samurai".
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Godzilla Godzilla (Japanese: ゴジラ , Hepburn: Gojira ) ( ; ] ) is a giant monster originating from a series of tokusatsu films of the same name from Japan. It first appeared in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film "Godzilla". Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in numerous media including video games, novels, comic books, television shows, 29 films produced by Toho and three Hollywood films. The character is commonly alluded by the epithet "King of the Monsters"; a phrase first used in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!", the Americanized version of Honda's original 1954 film.
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Zilla (TriStar Godzilla) Zilla (ジラ , Jira ) is a film monster that first appeared as the title character in TriStar Pictures' 1998 film "Godzilla". It was initially created as a reimagining of Godzilla; however after 2004, Toho (the Godzilla IP owners) began trademarking future incarnations of TriStar's Godzilla as "Zilla", with only the incarnations from the 1998 film and "" retaining the Godzilla copyright and trademark.
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Akiko Wakabayashi She is best known in English-speaking countries for her role as Bond girl Aki in the 1967 James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice". Before this, she had made many movies in her native Japan, especially Toho Studio's monster movies, such as "Dagora, the Space Monster" (1964) and "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964), both of which were also released under various other titles. In Gidorah, she played a mystical princess, who could predict the future and was also a prophetess.
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Ken Kensei Ken Kensei (ケン・ケンセイ , Ken Kensei ) (born 1954) is a Japanese actor who is known for various cameo appearances in numerous movies.
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Astro Boy (1963 TV series) Astro Boy (Japanese: 鉄腕アトム , Hepburn: Tetsuwan Atomu , "Mighty Atom", lit. "Iron Arm Atom") is a Japanese television series that premiered on Fuji TV on New Year's Day and is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as "anime". It originated as a manga of the same name in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, revered in Japan as the "God of Manga." After enjoying success both in Japan and abroad as the first anime to be broadcast overseas, "Astro Boy" was remade in the 1980s under the same name(s), and in 2003 as "Astro Boy: Mighty Atom". It lasted for four seasons, with a total of 193 episodes, the final episode presented on New Year's Eve 1966. At its height it was watched by 40% of the Japanese population who had access to a TV. In 1964, there was a feature-length animated movie called "Mighty Atom, the Brave in Space" (鉄腕アトム 宇宙の勇者 , Tetsuwan Atomu: Uchū no yūsha ) released in Japan. It was an anthology of three episodes; "The Robot Spaceship", "Last Day on Earth" and "Earth Defense Squadron". The latter two were filmed in color.
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Godzilla (Game Boy) Godzilla (ゴジラくん 怪獣大行進 , Gojira-kun: Kaijū Daikōshin ) is a Game Boy video game developed by Compile. Although it was released in 1990 (1991 in Europe), all of the monsters are from the Showa generation. The game is a port of an edition from the MSX console. Also the international version is slightly different from the Japanese version (different in-game character designs and behavior of the enemy characters).
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Ultra Series The Ultra Series (ウルトラシリーズ , Urutora Shirīzu ) is the collective name for all the shows produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad Ultra Monsters. The Ultra Series is one of the prominent tokusatsu superhero genre productions from Japan, along with Toei produced series "Kamen Rider", "Super Sentai" and the "Metal Heroes". The Ultra franchise is also one of the most well known examples of the "daikaiju" (大怪獣, "huge monster") genre, which also includes Toho's "Godzilla" series, and Daiei Film's "Gamera" series. However, the Ultra Series also falls into the "kyodai hīro" (巨大ヒーロー, "giant hero") subgenre of tokusatsu shows.
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Kumonga Kumonga (クモンガ ) is a mutated, enormous spider kaiju first appearing in Toho's 1967 film "Son of Godzilla". Although it is the main antagonist of that film, it helped save the world in the following year's Godzilla film (set in 1999), "Destroy All Monsters". In English language versions, the name is Spiga.
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King Ghidorah King Ghidorah (キングギドラ , Kingu Gidora ) is a kaiju film monster that first appeared in Toho's 1964 film "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster". Although Toho officially trademarks the character as "King Ghidorah", the character was originally referred to as Ghidrah in English markets.
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Ken Tanaka (actor) Ken Tanaka (田中健 , Tanaka Ken , born 6 March 1951) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1974.
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The Street Fighter The Street Fighter (激突！殺人拳 , "Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken" ) , literally "Clash, Killer Fist!", is a Japanese martial arts film released in 1974 and produced by Toei Company Ltd. It was released in the US by New Line Cinema and became one of the first films to be a commercial success for the distributor. It is notable as the first film to receive an X-rating in the United States solely for violence. In the UK it was originally released as "Kung Fu Streetfighter", presumably to avoid confusion with the Charles Bronson movie "Hard Times" which was initially released as "The Streetfighter" in the UK.
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Monster X Monster X (モンスターエックス? , Monsutā Ekkusu ) , also known as Keizer Ghidorah (カイザーギドラ? , Kaizā Gidora ) , is a Kaiju that first appeared in the 2004 Godzilla film, "". Although Monster X is a similar species to King Ghidorah, the two are not the same and have separate trademarks, owing to the drastically different abilities between them.
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King Kong King Kong is a giant movie monster, resembling a giant ape, that has appeared in various media since 1933. The character first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" from RKO Pictures, which received universal acclaim upon its initial release and re-releases. A sequel quickly followed that same year with "The Son of Kong", featuring Little Kong. In the 1960s, Toho produced "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1962), pitting a much larger Kong against Toho's own Godzilla, and "King Kong Escapes" (1967), based on "The King Kong Show" (1966–1969) from Rankin/Bass Productions. In 1976, Dino De Laurentiis produced a modern remake of the original film directed by John Guillermin. A sequel, "King Kong Lives", followed a decade later featuring a Lady Kong. Another remake of the original, this time set in 1933, was released in 2005 from filmmaker Peter Jackson.
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Ganjirō Nakamura Ganjirō Nakamura (中村鴈治郎 , Nakamura Ganjirō , 17 February 1902 – 13 April 1983) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 48 films between 1957 and 1982. He starred in the film "The End of Summer", which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Gakusei Shinjū Gakusei Shinjū (学生心中 ) , lit. "Student Double Suicide" a.k.a. "Student Lover's Suicide", is a 1954 black-and-white Japanese film directed by .
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Heihachiro Okawa Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 , Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō , 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971) , also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川 ) , was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film "Horoyoi jinsei". He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa.
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Yū Fujiki Yū Fujiki (Chinese: 藤木 悠;pinyin:teng muyou , Fujiki Yū , 2 March 1931 - 19 December 2005) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2005.
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Godzilla Game Godzilla Game was a board game released by Mattel in 1978. Between two and four people could play. Each player controlled six spaceships. One player's spaceships were all green, another's were all yellow, another's were all orange, and another's were all magenta. Occasionally Godzilla would appear and eat one of the spaceships. The last player to have a spaceship left would be the winner.
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Rebirth of Mothra Rebirth of Mothra (モスラ , Mosura , released in Japan simply as Mothra) is a 1996 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film featuring Mothra, produced and distributed by Toho. The film is directed by Okihiro Yoneda and serves as a reboot of the "Mothra" film series and is the first installment in the "Rebirth of Mothra" trilogy. It is also the last kaiju film produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, who produced various kaiju films featuring Mothra, Godzilla, and others. The film was released in Japan on December 14, 1996.
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Ultraman (1967 film) Ultraman (長篇怪獣映画ウルトラマン , Chōhen Kaijū Eiga Urutoraman ) is a 1967 Japanese tokusatsu superhero kaiju film consisting of re-edited material from the original television series Ultraman.
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Destroy All Monsters Destroy All Monsters (怪獣総進撃 , "Kaijū Sōshingeki" ) is a 1968 Japanese science fiction kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. The film is directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa with supervision by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi and Yoshio Tsuchiya. The film is ninth entry in the original "Godzilla" franchise and Shōwa series.