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Article: 5.7
Date: 9/05/05
Last Update: 4/03/07
A collection of references (either through memorabilia,
characters, or the movies themselves) in other studios' films to
Toho's many produced and distributed releases.
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Movie:
Friday the 13th Part III (1982) |
| Reference:
Godzilla
(1954); Godzilla
vs. Megalon (1973) |
| A
scene in Friday the 13th Part III where a woman
sits down on a hammock and opens a Fangoria magazine
to flip through a few pages before finding one that has
the words: "25 years with Godzilla". She looks
at it for a moment before blood from a murdered friend
drips down and she is killed by Jason Voorhees. |
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Movie:
Creepshow (1982) |
| Reference:
Godzilla
Series (-); Rodan
(1956) |
| The
opening scene in Creepshow; a boy is being punished
by his abusive father for reading the creepshow comic
book. After the boy is smacked in the face, it shows the
different toys that he keeps in his room. Two of the toys
are figures of Rodan and Godzilla. |
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Movie:
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) |
| Reference:
Godzilla
Series (-) |
| Arguably
the most famous onscreen reference to a Toho character,
Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure features
a sequence in which the title character travels through
Warner Bros studios with his bike, and stumbles upon a
Godzilla film in progress with the nuclear menace fighting
King Ghidorah. |
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Movie:
Stephen King's It (1990) |
| Reference:
Godzilla
Series (-) |
| A
Godzilla-shaped floater can be seen on Richie Tozier's
pool after he recieves a phonecall from Derry. Richie
also references the power lines sequence from Godzilla
(1954), earlier in the scene. |
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Movie:
Ed Wood (1994) |
| Reference:
Half Human
(1955) |
| A
quick sighting in director Tim Burton's biopic on the
infamous life of filmmaker Ed Wood, as a poster (US version)
of the 1955 Ishiro
Honda film can be seen during the scene that Bela
Lugosi (played by Martin Landau) begins to recite his
lines from Bride of the Monster as a crowd gathers. |
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Movie:
Street Fighter (1994) |
| Reference:
King
Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) |
| During
the raid of Bison's lair in the 1994 live-action Street
Fighter, a Japanese-speaking unit manages to tap into
the base's security through a remote console. A security
camera shows E. Honda (A Hawaiian Sumo wrestler) fighting
Zangief (a hulking Russian brute) amidst a cardboard city
while the sounds of Godzilla and King Kong are heard.
It should be noted that in the original Street Fighter
video game series E. Honda was of Japanese decent. |
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Movie:
Mars Attacks! (1996) |
| Reference:
Godzilla
vs. Biollante (1989) |
| Another
movie from Tim Burton, Mars Attacks! features
another reference to Godzilla's character. During the
Martians' worldwide invasion, footage from Godzilla
vs. Biollante (Godzilla attacking Osaka) is shown.
First we're supposed to think it's actually happening,
but the next second we learn the Martians are only watching
the movie on TV, just before they switch to The Dukes
of Hazzard. |
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