{"id":1382,"date":"2008-10-25T06:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2008-10-25T06:40:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:40:36","slug":"update-new-guilala-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/25\/update-new-guilala-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: New Guilala Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poster<\/a><\/p>\n

This poster for Girara-no Gyakushuu Touyaku Samitto Kiki Ippatsu<\/strong> [lit. Guilala\u2019s Counter Attack: the Touyaku Summit One-Shot Crisis] (Japan–<\/em>2008; dir. Minoru Kawasaki) — otherwise known as Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit!<\/em> featuring Guilala’s Western pseudonym — looks like it might be the one used for releases outside of Japan.<\/p>\n

This appeared on a site related to the Venice Film Festival in August.<\/p>\n

The following synopsis gives more details of the film’s plot and suggests its main satirical target beyond the daikaiju eiga<\/em> genre, though it does contain one spoiler:<\/p>\n

A parody of the Japanese daikaiju<\/em> genre (in technical terms, a film with gigantic monsters) set during an imaginary G8 summit ravaged by Guilala, the monster from outer space. With a focus on environmental issues, the summit, which takes place in the summer of 2008 in Hokkaido, explores the various ineffectual efforts of the major world leaders (including the French President, who is exclusively concerned with matters regarding the fairer sex) to deal with planetary imbalances. The arrival of the monster from outer space sets off a frenzied race to take credit for saving the planet from the extraterrestrial threat, right up to the finale in which the Japanese leader is unveiled as an impostor, an emissary from an evil enemy dictatorship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n