Norman England
2021Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
Norman England
Alex Cox, Yasuyuki Inoue
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is Yasuyuki Inoue along with various crew members who crafted meticulously detailed miniatures and risked life and limb as suit actors. All done to bring to life some of film's most iconic monsters through a distinct Japanese artform.
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
The iDol
Norman England
Yukijiro Hotaru, Jin Sasaki
Ken is a mild-mannered man in his mid-twenties who like many his age has interests that stopped developing during adolescence. On a visit to a local toy collectors shop he acquires a rare alien action figure. Unexpectedly, Ken's world is turned inside out as the somewhat silly looking toy alters his life by benevolently giving him everything he has ever dreamed of, and then callously taking it all back...
The iDol
Death Note
Shusuke Kaneko
Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
Death Note
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Masaaki Tezuka
Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka
Mothra and her fairies return to Japan to warn mankind that they must return Kiryu to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. However Godzilla has survived to menace Japan leaving Kiryu as the nation's only defense.
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
The Great Buddha Arrival
Hiroto Yokokawa
Akira Takarada, Yuki Morita
An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro Edamasa's grandson. From Japan, a modern kaiju story based on what may be the first kaiju film.
The Great Buddha: Arrival
Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies
Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Norman England, Tomoka Hayashi
Set in a future dystopia where teenaged girls begin dying for no apparent reason -- and often in an elated, chronically happy state of mind. One of these girls, Stacy, is back from the dead, however, and she's ready to gorge herself on human flesh. As more and more teenage-girl zombies begin to feast on the living, the people of Japan brace themselves and try to find a way to end the madness.
Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies
