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In 2005, the Chinese military commenced "Operation: Hedorah" to kill Anguirus and Rodan with the bio-weapon. Hedorah successfully took down the two monsters, but it attained sentience afterwards and went on a rampage, consumed the pollutants in the surrounding area, then disappeared, leaving an estimated 8.2 million casualties in its wake.
Godzilla vs. Hedorah was a moderate box office success in Japan, where it grossed ¥290–300 million. [14] [15] [16] In 2019, to celebrate the lives of Banno and Nakajima (both of whom died in 2017), it was the 22 film screened as part of the National Film Archive of Japan's "In Memory of Film Figures We Lost in 2017-2018" event. [17]
[2] [6] The name was derived from Japanese reading of Chinese phrase "bandai fueki" (万代不易), meaning "eternally unchanging" or "things that are eternal." [2] [3] [7] Being assisted by Atsuko Tatsumi, publisher of the Weekly Toy News in Tokyo, Bandai-ya distributed and imported celluloid dolls, metallic toys, and rubber swimming rings.
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack [a] (often abbreviated as GMK) [3] [4] is a 2001 Japanese kaiju film directed and co-written by Shusuke Kaneko. The 26th film in the Godzilla franchise and the third of the Millennium era , it serves as a direct sequel to Godzilla (1954), ignoring the events of every other ...
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (Japanese: 三大怪獣 地球最大の決戦, Hepburn: San Daikaijū Chikyū Saidai no Kessen, lit. Three Giant Monsters: Earth's Greatest Battle) is a 1964 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
In 2014, as part of the 35th anniversary celebration of Gundam, Bandai released the MG RX-78-2 Gundam ver. 3.0, which incorporates the engineering techniques used in the MG 2.0 and RG kits. In 2015, Bandai introduced a sub-line of the HG called "HG Revive", which consists of re-engineered 1:144 scale kits of the RX-78-2 Gundam and other classic ...
[12] [13] That following month, a Shin Japan Heroes Amusement World commemorative wristwatch was announced and became available for pre-order from Premium Bandai on November 25 for ¥33,000. [14] That same month, Tamashii Nations announced a new line of figures based on the designs of Eva-01, Godzilla, Kamen Rider and Ultraman. [15]
They are an Okinawan variation on the Chinese guardian lion (石獅; Shishi, meaning "Stone Lion"), [5] which in turn originates from Buddhist tradition in India, where Asiatic lions are native. Shisa only loosely resemble actual lions on account of being based on second-hand descriptions by people who had never seen one in person. [ 6 ]