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    Photo courtesy of Radiance Films. ©KADOKAWA CORPORATION Source: Radiance Films, MVD Entertainment Special Thanks to Derek Stubinski DAIEI GOTHIC: JAPANESE GHOST STORIES presents a collection of three of Japan's most famous ghost stories that have haunted people for centuries in a limited edition Blu-ray set from Radiance Films. Photo courtesy of Radiance Films. ©KADOKAWA CORPORATION Kenji Misumi (LONE WOLF AND CUB) directs THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA (四谷怪談,Yotsuya Kaidan, 1959), in which a woman returns from the grave as a horribly disfigured phantom to torment her husband and his new bride. In THE SNOW WOMAN (怪談雪女郎, Kaidan Yukijorō, 1968), directed by Tokuzo Tanaka (ZATOICHI), a woodcutter must keep his oath to a vengeful female spirit or pay the ultimate price. THE BRIDE FROM HADES (牡丹燈籠, Botan Tōrō, 1968) by Satsuo Yamamoto (SHINOBi) sees a handsome samurai so enchanted by a courtesan's beauty that

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    © Full Moon Features Source: MVD Entertainment press releasee Special Thanks to Derek Stubinski Photo courtesy of MVD Entertainment. © Full Moon Features THE PRIMEVALS (2023), the long-delayed film by the late stop motion genius David Allen (THE HOWLING, WILLOW, GHOSTBUSTERS 2, PUPPET MASTER, EQUINOX, FLESH GORDON), comes to Blu-ray this September from Full Moon Features (PUPPET MASTER, SUBSPECIES, DEMONIC TOYS). Deep in the Himalayas, a group of Sherpas subdue and kill a towering humanoid creature. Its remains - including a brain that appears to have undergone some kind of surgery - wind up under the supervision of Dr. Claire Collier (Juliet Mills, BEYOND THE DOOR), who believes it to be one of the legendary Yeti. Joined by her former student Matt Connor (Richard Joseph Paul), a longtime believer in the creatures' existence, big-game hunter Rondo Montana (Leon Russom, THE BIG LEBOWSKI), and others,

    The Monsterverse KONG: SURVIVOR INSTINCT game will be available on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Image courtesy of 7Levels. GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS © 2019 Legendary and WBEI. All Rights Reserved. GODZILLA VS. KONG © 2021 & TM Legendary and WBEI. All Rights Reserved. GODZILLA TM & © Toho Co., Ltd. MONSTERVERSE TM Legendary. 7Levels is a trademark of 7Levels S.A. All Rights Reserved.

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    The Monsterverse KONG: SURVIVOR INSTINCT game will be available on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Image courtesy of 7Levels. GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS © 2019 Legendary and WBEI. All Rights Reserved. GODZILLA VS. KONG © 2021 & TM Legendary and WBEI. All Rights Reserved. GODZILLA TM & © Toho Co., Ltd. MONSTERVERSE TM Legendary. 7Levels is a trademark of 7Levels S.A. All Rights Reserved. Source: 7Levels press releaseSpecial Thanks to Paweł Biela In collaboration with Legendary Entertainment, 7Levels unveils their upcoming 2.5D action-adventure indie PC and console game, KONG: SURVIVOR INSTINCT, launching later this fall. Inspired by Legendary’s blockbuster Monsterverse franchise and set shortly after the events of 2021’s hit theatrical release, GODZILLA VS. KONG, players will navigate a shattered city through the eyes of a father desperate to find his missing daughter. The compelling narrative delivers an intense gaming experience, as you

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    Photo courtesy of Studio Mujaku. ©Studio Mujaku Source: Studio MujakuSpecial Thanks to Avery Guerra In December 2022, SciFi Japan ran an exclusive preview of MIDNIGHT THE ERA, an independent kaiju short film that was being created through a combination of animation and traditional Japanese tokusatsu FX techniques. The film is produced by Studio Mujaku, a group of 30 university students led by director Hanasuke Okada and producer Kakeru Taiga, who have split their time between their school duties and making this movie.  Studio Mujaku has now released the official trailer for MIDNIGHT THE ERA... enjoy!  

    Kinji Fukasaku’s crime drama THE THREAT will soon be available outside Japan for the first time ever. Photo courtesy of Arrow Video. © Toei Co., Ltd.

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    Kinji Fukasaku’s crime drama THE THREAT will soon be available outside Japan for the first time ever. Photo courtesy of Arrow Video. © Toei Co., Ltd. Source: Arrow Video, MVD Entertainment Special Thanks to Derek Stubinski Photo courtesy of Arrow Video. © Toei Co., Ltd. Arrow Video’s September Slate features a rarely seen gem from the director of BATTLE ROYALE. THE THREAT (脅迫 おどし, Odoshi, 1966) is a gritty crime drama in the vein of Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW, set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing Japan that has left many of its citizens behind. Misawa (Rentarō Mikuni; FUGITIVE FROM THE PAST, VENGEANCE IS MINE) appears to lead a charmed life, the very model of Japan's post-war economic miracle. His position as the account manager of a prestigious advertising agency is enough to pay the mortgage on the spacious modern house he

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    Source: DCSpecial Thanks to Michael Shelling Image courtesy of DC. © & TM DC. All Rights Reserved. ©2024 Legendary. All Rights Reserved. TM&© TOHO CO., LTD. MONSTERVERSE TM&© Legendary The hit 7-issue mini-series Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong from DC and Legendary Comics is now available in a collected edition hardcover. DC collides with Legendary’s Monsterverse in this tale from acclaimed writer Brian Buccellato (The Flash, Injustice, Detective Comics), bestselling artist Christian Duce (Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point) and colorist Luis Guerrero!   Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong Collected Edition Hardcover ISBN: 9781779525291Writer: Brian BuccellatoArtists: Christian Duce, Tom DerenickAvailable NowPrice: $29.99Pages: 264Format: Hardcover   About Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong The DC Universe is about to get shaken-up when the Legion of Doom unlocks a portal to another dimension, unleashing the fiercest Monsters in the Multiverse. Godzilla, the King of

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    Source: Sentai press release Sentai Home Video has announced its November 2024 slate of anime Blu-ray releases. Product details follow, in order of release...   Photo courtesy of Sentai. THE VEXATIONS OF A SHUT-IN PRINCESS COMPLETE COLLECTION Published by:    Sentai Distributed by:   Distribution SolutionsRun Time:         300 min.Street Date:      11/5/2024Format:             BDLanguage:        English Dub, Japanese with English SubtitlesSRP:                 $69.98 Romari Gandesblood is NOT your typical vampire. She's weak, can't use magic, dislikes blood, and prefers to hide in her room and pretend that the rest of the world isn't there. Unfortunately, as a Vampire of Important Parentage and her father's daughter, she's been assigned to the job she's least suited for: leading one of her nation's armies! Can Komari and her obsessive new maid Villhaze convince her new battalion of bloodthirsty brutes into believing that she's their fearless leader and totally in command?

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    Photo courtesy of Arrow Films. Source: Arrow Films, MVD Entertainment Special Thanks to Derek Stubinski Remastered from the best available elements and packed with a host of new and archival extras, J-HORROR RISING presents seven of the genre's most distinctive titles in this limited edition set from Arrow Video. Photo courtesy of Arrow Films. In the ghostly pastoral horror of SHIKOKU (死国, 1999), a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl's mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region's famous pilgrimage - but why is she walking backwards? The aftermath of the devasting Kobe Earthquake of 1995 creates fissures in the already fractured mind of a high-school girl in ISOLA: MULTIPLE PERSONALITY GIRL (ISOLA 多重人格少女 ISOLA Taju-jinkaku Shojo, 2000), allowing

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    Photo by Andrew Nguyen. TM & ©TOHO CO., LTD. Author: Andrew Nguyen From August 10-30, the Hashimoto Contemporary served as the site of an art exhibit in honor of the Godzilla series' 70th anniversary, hosted by Spoke Art and Ghost X Ghost along with the support of Toho Studios. Titled "70 years of Godzilla," the exhibit contains officially licensed art pieces from 40 artists with a variety of different styles presented. Several of the art pieces were created by well-known artists that have previously worked on Godzilla related merchandise. The opening ceremony was on August 10 and on the day before the opening of the exhibit, the two companies hosted a screening of the original GODZILLA (1954) at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The art exhibition will gradually release copies of the pieces presented in the exhibit with the last of them being made available

    A selection of pre-production art and sculpts from various stages of TriStar Pictures` initial, unrealized version of their American GODZILLA movie. © 1993-1995 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.

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    Interviews, Never-Before-Seen Photos, Storyboards, and Production Art from Sony Pictures` Abandoned First Attempt Author: Keith Aiken Special Thanks to: Please See ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Below A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE On May 16, 2014, Warner Bros. Pictures released GODZILLA, a $160 million American adaptation of the long-running Toho Co. franchise. Co-produced by Legendary Pictures and directed by Gareth Edwards, the film finally gave many fans what they had long hoped to see... a big-budget, Hollywood take on the King of the Monsters with state-of-the-art visual effects. Well-received by critics and audiences, the new GODZILLA was a box office success, with a sequel announced for 2018. The generally positive reviews for the 2014 film were a sharp contrast to the reception given the first Godzilla movie made by an American studio. In October 1992, TriStar Pictures (a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment) announced that they

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: Giacomo Ghiazza   Aaron Vaught and Nelson Fleer come to Godzilla`s aid while Pike engages the Gryphon in aerial combat around the Empire State Building.   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: Giacomo Ghiazza   The monsters clash between the towers of the World Trade Center.   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: Giacomo Ghiazza   Jill races to rescue her daughter as the Gryphon and Godzilla arrive in New York City. Note: This sequence includes handwritten notes by Jan De Bont.   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: Giacomo Ghiazza   Sensing the Gryphon, Godzilla awakens and attempts to break free of his confinement.   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: David Russell   Having completed its gestation, the Gryphon emerges to conquer the world.   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: Giacomo Ghiazza   Jill and her daughter Tina disagree on whether or not Godzilla should be killed.   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.

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    ©General Incorporated Association One Percent Social Contribution, Koda Films Special Thanks to Avery Guerra and Yuki Morita A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE Okubo Hikozaemon. Filmmaker Minoru Kawasaki (EVERYTHING SINKS EXCEPT JAPAN, EARTH DEFENSE WIDOW and MONSTER SEAFOOD WARS, PLANET PRINCE 2021), will next produce CYBORG ISSHINTASUKE (サイボーグ一心太助, Saibōgu Isshintasuke).   The film is inspired by the legendary hero Okubo Hikozaemon (1560-1639). For this story, Hikozaemon is reimagined as a modern businessman named Isshin Taisuke who is transformed into a cyborg to battle an evil corporation. This will be the next entry in Kawasaki's trilogy of movies produced and based in Kota, Aichi Prefecture (aka Koda Town), which started with SUPER LEGEND GOD HIKOZA (超伝合体ゴッドヒコザ, Chō-den Gattai Goddo Hikoza, 2022) and was followed by A UFO INTRUDER (突撃！隣のUFO, Totsugeki! Tonari no UFO, 2023).   The main character Isshin Taisuke was designed by manga artist

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: Giacomo Ghiazza   Jill Llewellyn arrives at the facility where Godzilla is kept under sedation.   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: Giacomo Ghiazza   Two boys watch as the unconscious Godzilla is airlifted to a secure location.   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.

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    Source: Terry Rossio and Jan De BontArtist: David Russell   The Probe Bats bring their prey back to the Gryphon`s lair...   ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd. ©1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.

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