Category Archives: Japanese

Jellyfish Eyes: The New Yôkai?

Posted on Monday, February 25, 2013 by Robert Hood

Images of the cute yet bizarre kaiju (that is, monsters) inhabiting Takashi Murakami’s much-anticipated fantasy Mememe no Kurage (Jellyfish Eyes) reveal an imagination that has taken its own established aesthetic and created a weird, toy-like pantheon of creatures very reminiscent, in … Continue reading →

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Jellyfish Eyes: Early Trailer

Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2012 by Robert Hood

Check out this early trailer for Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s proposed live-action fantasy trilogy, Mememe no Kurage (Jellyfish Eyes): embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direct Full of the sort of cuteness displayed by much of Murakami’s work, and looking rather kid-centric … Continue reading →

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First Sighting of Jellyfish Eyes’ Monsters

Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2012 by Robert Hood

Two of the monster designs for Part 1 of artist Takashi Murakami’s proposed live-action fantasy trilogy, Mememe no Kurage (Jellyfish Eyes) [if you need to catch up, see  The Art of Monsters: Takashi Murakami and Jellyfish Eyes], have surfaced — … Continue reading →

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A Second Helping of Jellyfish Eyes

Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012 by Robert Hood

A while back the Backbrain discussed at length Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and his upcoming live-action giant monster film, Jellyfish Eyes. (See The Art of Monsters: Takashi Murakami and Jellyfish Eyes.) As exciting as that is, the website for the … Continue reading →

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Update: New Footage of the Giant God Warrior

Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 by Robert Hood

Twitchfilm has posted some extended footage from the Studio Ghibli live action film made by Hideaki Anno and Hayao Miyazaki, Kyōshinhei Tokyo ni Arawaru [lit. Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo]. It involves some great shots of the old-school, non-CG … Continue reading →

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B-Movie Celebration: The God of Clay

Posted on Friday, July 27, 2012 by Robert Hood

Exclusive Poster Art created for Undead Backbrain and the 6th Annual B-Movie Celebration There’s a new giant monster about the rise over the B-Movie horizon: The God of Clay [aka ねんどの神さま], (Japan-2009/2011) is a 13-minute short from Koichi Kawakita, the … Continue reading →

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New: Giant Monster Gomera

Posted on Monday, July 2, 2012 by Robert Hood

A Backbrain Exclusive Well, the truth is finally out! Back in February 2011, the Backbrain brought the following trailer to your attention, faithful daikaijuphiles. And perhaps created a few over-excited expectations in the process. embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direct This, … Continue reading →

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Mad Gods and Ghibli…

Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2012 by Robert Hood

Here’s an interesting oddity: as part of a museum exhibition running from July 10 to October 8 at Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art titled Hideaki Anno’s Special Effects Museum, Anno is working with Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli to make a short … Continue reading →

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A New Restored Godzilla

Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2011 by Robert Hood

At last! In January next year Criterion is releasing a high definition digitally restored edition of Gojira [aka Godzilla]  — the 1954 daikaiju classic directed by Ishiro Honda – on Blu-ray and DVD. After the merely half-decent releases that have appeared … Continue reading →

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Monstrous Tourists

Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Robert Hood

These vintage Japanese bromide cards — known as Pachimon Postcards — were published by Yokopro in the 1970s. They feature “pachimon kaiju”, counterfeit monsters that have been painted into scenes of familiar tourist attractions and locations around the world. As … Continue reading →

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