Movie Poster Collecting: Akihiko Hirata

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Son of Godzilla Japanese R1973 LC

Son of Godzilla (R1973) - (Tadao Takashima) Japanese LC #4

This is an 11" x 14" lobby card for a 1973 rerelease of the 1967 Jun Fukuda film Son of Godzilla starring Tadao Takashima as Dr. Kusumi. Plot summary: During a weather research trip on Solgel Island a group of scientists has unexpected encounters with massive oversized insects and a giant spider, as well as Godzilla with his newly-hatched son. Godzilla and son fight the spider and the insects while Godzilla teachess his son the requisite skills of monsterhood.

Cast and crew: Jun Fukuda, Shinichi Sekizawa, Kazue Shiba, Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Bibari Maeda, Akihiko Hirata, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenji Sahara, Kenichiro Maruyama, Seishiro Kuno, Yasuhiko Saijo, Susumi Kurobe, Kazuo Suzuki, Wataru Omae, Chotaro Togin, Seiji Onaka, Haruo Nakajima

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Son of Godzilla Japanese R1973 LC

Son of Godzilla (R1973) - (Tadao Takashima) Japanese LC #3

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Son of Godzilla Japanese R1973 LC

Son of Godzilla (R1973) - (Tadao Takashima) Japanese LC #2

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Son of Godzilla Japanese R1973 LC

Son of Godzilla (R1973) - (Tadao Takashima) Japanese LC #1

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Saturday, February 10, 2018

Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster 1966 dir: Jun Fukuda Italian locandina

Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 27.25" Italian locandina poster designed to promote the 1966 Jun Fukuda film Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster starring Akira Takarada as Yoshimura. Plot summary: In a storm, some teenagers are shipwrecked on an Island whose population is being enslaved by Red Bamboo, a criminal organization. The island is also unders siege by a giant lobster named Ebirah, the sea monster. The teenagers find Godzilla sleeping on the island; they awaken him and recruit him to fight Ebirah and defeat Red Bamboo.

Cast and crew: Jun Fukuda, Shin'ichi Sekizawa, Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Chotaro Togin, Hideo Sunazuka, Toru Watanabe, Toru Ibuki, Akihiko Hirata, Jun Tazaki, Ikio Sawamura, Pair Bambi, Hideyo Amamoto, Hisaya Ito, Tadashi Akabe, Kazuo Suzuki, Soichi Hirose

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Terror of Mechagodzilla 1975 dir: Honda Yugoslavian poster

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) - (dir: Ishiro Honda) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19" x 26" Yugoslavian poster for the 1975 Ishiro Honda film Terror of Mechagodzilla based on story and screenplay by Yukiko Takayama and starring Katsuhiko Sasaki as Akira Ichinose. Plot summary: Mechagodzilla, a 400-foot robot Godzilla, and the gigantic amphibious dinosaur Titanosaurus are both being used by aliens to attack Earth. Godzilla tries to oppose them to save the planet.

Cast and crew: Ishiro Honda, Yukiko Takayama, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoki Ai, Akihiko HIrata, Katsumasa Uchida, GoroMutsumi, Tadao Nakamaru, Shin Roppongi, Yasuko Agawa, Toru Ibuki, Kenji Sahara, Kotaro Tomita, Ikio Sawamura, Masaaki Daimon, Yoshio Kirishima, Kazuo Suzuki

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Saturday, September 10, 2016

War in Space (1977) - (Kensaku Morita) Seven Mexican Lobby Cards

These are seven 16.5" x 21" Mexican paper lobby cards for the 1977 Jun Fukuda film The War in Space (Japanese Wakusei daisenso) based on a story by Hideichi Nagahara and Ryuzo Nakanishi and starring Kensaku Morita as Miyoshi. The principal design element of each card is the huge heavily armed "space battleship" Gohten built by Earth's team of scientists to fight the invaders from Venus. Plot summary: When earth is attacked by an alien spacecraft from Venus, Japanese scientists build the space battleship Gohten to use in trying to save humanity. At first the request to build the battleship is ignored, but when an alien tries to kidnap Professor Mataso Takigawa [Ryo Ikebe] everybody realizes Earth is under attack and efforts are mobilized to build the battleship, which easily destroys the attacking enemy fighters and then moves on to Venus to hit their base of operations.

Cast and crew: Jun Fukuda, Hideichi Nagahara, Ryuzo Nakanishi, Kensaku Morita, Yuko Asano, Ryo Ikebe, Masaya Oki, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Hideji Otaki, Katstoshi Atarashi, Akihiko Hirata, Goro Mitsumi, Isao Hashimoto, Shoji Nakayama, David Perin, William Ross

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Saturday, June 20, 2015

The War in Space (1977) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) 7 Mexican Lobby Sheets

The War in Space (1977) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) Seven Mexican lobby sheets

These are seven 16.5" x 21" Mexican paper lobby cards for the 1977 Jun Fukuda film The War in Space (Japanese Wakusei daisenso) based on a story by Hideichi Nagahara and Ryuzo Nakanishi and starring Kensaku Morita as Miyoshi. The principal design element of each card is the huge heavily armed "space battleship" Gohten built by Earth's team of scientists to fight the invaders from Venus. Plot summary: When earth is attacked by an alien spacecraft from Venus, Japanese scientists build the space battleship Gohten to use in trying to save humanity. At first the request to build the battleship is ignored, but when an alien tries to kidnap Professor Mataso Takigawa [Ryo Ikebe] everybody realizes the Earth is under attack and efforts are mobilized to build the battleship, which easily destroys the attacking enemy fighters and then moves on to Venus to hit their base of operations.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) Italian two-sheet

This is a 39" x 55" Italian two-sheet poster designed by Orovato to promote the 1966 Jun Fukuda film Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster starring Akira Takarada as Yoshimura. Plot summary: In a storm, some teenagers are shipwrecked on an Island whose population is being enslaved by Red Bamboo, a criminal organization. The island is also unders seige by a giant lobster named Ebirah, the sea monster. The teenagers find Godzilla sleeping on the island; they awaken him and recruit him to fight Ebirah and defeat Red Bamboo. This poster shows King Kong, who was the film's original monster before Toho replaced the big ape with Godzilla.