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As the man behind the monster suit admitted to SciFi Japan TV, he didn't know if he wanted the role -- he wanted to be a pilot. Fortunately, he took the part, and ever since, people have loved ...
Haruo Nakajima (Japanese: 中島 春雄, Hepburn: Nakajima Haruo, January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017) [2] was a Japanese actor and stuntman. A pioneer of suit acting, he is best known for playing Godzilla in 12 consecutive films, starting from the original Godzilla (1954) until Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972).
The first foam rubber creature suit used in film was Gill-man, from the film Creature from the Black Lagoon, which released in 1954 and beat Godzilla by half a year. The suit, created by the film special-effects artist Don Post, was extremely hot when worn outside of the water, requiring actor Ben Chapman to be regularly hosed down, and ...
While filming Godzilla movies, Satsuma would regularly pass out on the set due to lack of oxygen while wearing the poorly ventilated and heavy rubber suits; this was especially a problem during the production of Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, in which the steam effect on the suit (meant to represent Godzilla undergoing a nuclear meltdown) was ...
Unlike Toho's vintage Godzilla movies, though, none of Monarch's kaiju is played by guys in suits like Haruo Nakajima, the first actor to don a rubber Godzilla costume in the 1954 original ...
A suit actor portrays characters that are inhuman in appearance, such as henshin (i.e., transforming heroes), kaiju, and robots, by wearing a performance costume. Notable examples include Haruo Nakajima, [2] [3] the first suit actor to play Godzilla (later succeeded by Kenpachiro Satsuma for the Heisei films [4] [3]) and Ben Chapman, [5] who portrayed the Gill-man in Creature From the Black ...
For 1950s teenagers, 'Godzilla' was scary fun. For Japanese audiences, the film — which turns 70 this November 3 — was much darker ... One man died; 23 were sickened. ... How to style a suit ...
Godzilla pioneered a form of special effects called suitmation in which a stunt performer wearing a suit interacts with miniature sets. Principal photography ran 51 days, and special effects photography ran 71 days. Godzilla premiered in Nagoya on October 27, 1954, and received a wide release in Japan on November 3. It was met with mixed ...