{"id":12576,"date":"2012-07-27T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=12576"},"modified":"2012-07-30T18:09:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T07:09:45","slug":"b-movie-celebration-the-god-of-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/27\/b-movie-celebration-the-god-of-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"B-Movie Celebration: The God of Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive Poster Art created for Undead Backbrain and the 6th Annual B-Movie Celebration
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There’s a new giant monster about the rise over the B-Movie horizon:<\/p>\n

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The God of Clay<\/strong> [aka \u306d\u3093\u3069\u306e\u795e\u3055\u307e], (Japan-2009\/2011) is a 13-minute short from Koichi Kawakita, the SFX director of the Godzilla movies from 1989’s Godzilla vs Biollante<\/em> (Gojira tai Biorante) to the end of the “Heisei” period with 1995’s\u00a0Gojira tai Desutoroya<\/em> [Godzilla vs. Destroyah]. Kawakita took over the production from credited co-director Nobuaki Sugimoto, who directed the initial footage. Made in the “classic” tokusatsu style, The God of Clay<\/em> is a welcome return to monster suits and miniature sets.<\/p>\n

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Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in his childhood Ken-chan, a young boy whose parents were killed in World War II, created a tiny clay god to symbolically punish warmongers for the destruction they\u2019ve wrought. 50 years later Ken is president of a Japanese defense contractor — the sort of war profiteer he\u2019d once blamed for his parents\u2019 death. In response to this irony, Ken\u2019s long-forgotten God Of Clay grows to enormous size, wreaking havoc and miniature destruction as it treks across the countryside toward Tokyo to confront its maker. (Adapted from SciFi Japan<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The film is based on a 1992 anti-war children\u2019s book by author Masamoto Nasu and boasts the work of many well-known Ultraman, Mothra and Godzilla alumni. (For details, check out the excellent\u00a0SciFi Japan<\/a> article, which includes production art such as the image below by Tetsuzo Osawa.)<\/p>\n

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The SciFi Japan<\/a> article, written by daikaiju eiga expert Steve Ryfle, also features an informative interview with the director.<\/p>\n

The God of Clay<\/em> will be screened at the 6th Annual B-Movie Celebratio<\/a>n\u2019s Film Festival<\/a> to be held in Columbus, Indiana during September.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: Via B-Movie Celebration Film Festival Program Director Avery Guerra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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