For fans of Toho’s Jujutsu Kaisen anime, online retailer Atsuko.com sent over a few items for a look. A note about the photography – I thought I’d try something new, which is to take shots of the items and have them be the focal point without a distracting background.

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This article acts as a roundup for news related to upcoming and recently released figures from Diamond Select Toys that are Toho or Godzilla related. Diamond

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Ten years. Ten years of emails, post interview questions, various studio personnel, dead ends, and hopeful leads that fizzled out has culminated into a day that seemed unreachable…

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Tribeca Music Lounge and Toho International teamed up to forge an awesome celebration of history’s greatest kaiju; I’m talking, of course, about the 70th anniversary of Godzilla. The party drew a diverse group of fans, punk rockers and Godzilla-curious filmmakers from the Tribeca Film Festival (including Anya Taylor Joy of The Queen’s Gambit fame) for a festive night of rock and fandom.

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With a new Godzilla film, new snacks from FYE (@OfficialFYE on social media) are here! How are they? Read below!

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With Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (2024) nearing its theatrical run, Chris Mirjahangir sits down once more with director Adam Wingard to discuss the production process on this latest chapter in the MonsterVerse.

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On February 14th, 2024, I was fortunate to exclusively interview Godzilla Minus One writer/director/VFX artist Takashi Yamazaki. The interview is quite informative with inside information about the film! As a result, spoiler warning if you have not yet watched the movie. I hope you enjoy reading!

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On December 2nd, 2023, I was fortunate to exclusively interview Godzilla Minus One writer/director/VFX artist Takashi Yamazaki. I hope you enjoy reading!

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On February 12th, 2024, actor O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Straight Outta Compton and a bunch of other movies) invited me to the William Morris Endeavor Screening Room in Beverly Hills, California. There Godzilla Minus One (2023) was screened and afterwards a Q&A session was held. This was with Director Takeshi Yamazaki and the rest of his Oscar nominated VFX crew, as they answer questions about the production while also referring to Godzilla movies that came before.

I filmed the Q&A for everyone, which ended up being a 30 minute segment that covers a lot of ground. I hope you enjoy it!

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Starting in 2019, Playmates Toys began releasing figures around both the Monsterverse and the Toho Godzilla films. Since then, they have published toys around the Showa series, Heisei series, Millennium series, Reiwa series and including figures for Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). This has encompassed a wide range of different versions of Godzilla as well, including Godzilla 1954, Godzilla 1968, Godzilla 1999, Godzilla 2004, Godzilla 2016 and the Monsterverse version.

This post is a news roundup of the upcoming and announced Playmates Toys releases around Godzilla.

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Toho has announced that they will become more involved with movie productions and key investments outside of Japan. This will take effect as early as 2019, and will extend for years and years to come in the global marketplace. This article chronicles some of these efforts to break into these markets, ranging from co-producing, to investments and sometimes even acquisitions. (more…)

Chris Mirjahangir engages in an insightful interview with Jeffrey Angles, the translator of the recently released Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again novellas. Answers to why these books were chosen and what other books may be on the docket can be found after the jump!

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Interview with the Senior Vice President of Legendary Comics, Robert Napton. In this interview, conducted shortly after SDCC, we cover the upcoming Godzilla vs. Kong vs. Justice League comic book series from DC Comics and Monsterverse Comics from Legendary Comics. Total running time: 36 minutes, 50 seconds. This interview does end abruptly and was edited for flow. Conducted Wednesday July 26th, 2023.

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The following is an exclusive interview with the executive producer Jacob Robinson and director Willis Bulliner of the Skull Island animated show produced by Legendary Entertainment Television. Interview conducted on July 3rd, 2023 at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, California. This interview was edited for flow.

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The following is an exclusive interview with Nicolas Cantu who plays “Charlie” on the “Skull Island” animated show produced by Legendary Entertainment Television. Interview conducted on July 3rd, 2023 at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, California. This interview was edited for flow.

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Chris Mirjahangir and Brian Elston interview marketing director Akos Gyorkei of Zen Studios, the developer responsible for the release of the Godzilla vs. Kong-themed pinball game available on consoles and PC.

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The streaming television service Pluto TV will be hosting a Godzilla-centric channel, where nearly the entire Godzilla movie catalogue will be aired continuously for 24 hours a day. Additionally, a number of other Toho-involved films and even animated television shows will be thrown into the mix.

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For many, vinyl is the way to go for pure listening enjoyment. Descriptions such as “warm” and “pure” come to mind when talking to those who prefer this medium. For fans of vinyl, Mondo has begun releasing various Godzilla and Toho soundtracks.

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Godzilla’s huge popularity in the past few years has spawned various clothing lines from various companies like Hero Within and Ghost X Ghost among others. Today, I was sent samples of a new Godzilla line from a company called “Teddy Fresh”. They’re different than the other clothing lines because they seem to be having fun with the designs and the line leans toward the higher end clothing line, so to speak. Check out below to see the Teddy Fresh X Godzilla clothing line!

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Conducted 30 years ago this month (December 1992) by journalist David Milner for “Cult Movies” magazine, this is what would be the original Godzilla film (and various sequels and other films) director Ishiro Honda’s final interview prior to his death in February 1993. When the interview was originally published in “Cult Movies” magazine in 1993, it was printed as a largely complete interview. Now, for the first time, the interview is being published in its completed form (although lightly edited for flow and no information lost).

In the interview, conducted at his home in Setagaya, Tokyo, Mr. Honda covers a wide range of subjects from the Godzilla series to his work in other films. Coming in at 17 pages long, there’s quite a bit of information to digest. For those of you who have read the old transcriptions of the “Cult Movies” Magazine either found online or have the older issues, there’s a bit of new information here in this new transcription, which has remained unreleased for 30 years. For those of you who have found Godzilla either by the Legendary Pictures films or the Toho films by yourself, via a friend or a loved one, and wanted to know more about Godzilla, I hope you find this interview educational and inspiring!

In addition to the interview text, I’m also adding the audio of the full interview which has never been released. The audio has been digitized from the original cassettes and while it isn’t the BEST quality, the interview is preserved (it does have a few hiccups here and there) and has a total running time of 3 hours 12 minutes and 9 seconds.

This interview is the first of many with other Toho luminaries, most of which will be posted with the original audio alongside each transcription. Because of the workload required, I cannot guarantee a time frame for releases but I will do my very best to post as quickly as possible.

Thank yous:

First off, I’d like to thank David Milner for entrusting me with his full interview archive for sharing on Toho Kingdom and for digitizing the original cassette tapes so the interviews would not be lost to time. I sincerely hope that you not only enjoy them, but find them useful as reference when writing/discussing the Godzilla franchise, and the words of those interviewed continue to inspire and educate for many years to come.

In addition, this re-translation was originally done by Yuuko Honda-Yun (granddaughter of Ishiro) for Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski as part of their research for their book Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. VERY special thanks to Mr. Ryfle and Mr. Godziszewski for sharing this complete translation with Toho Kingdom, and to Miss Honda-Yun for giving permission to share it. Toho Kingdom also wishes to thank the interview’s original translator, Yoshihiko Shibata.

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