{"id":2549,"date":"2009-04-29T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T08:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2009-04-30T08:26:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:26:42","slug":"g-vs-gehara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/29\/g-vs-gehara\/","title":{"rendered":"G vs Gehara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You remember <strong>G<\/strong>, right? No, not Godzilla but one of his recent descendents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>G<\/strong> (2008; short, 48 min.; dir. Kiyotaka Taguchi)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"G\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/gpic3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, check him out <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/07\/update-g\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget his tin-plated nemesis:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Gs nemesis\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/gpic5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How about <strong>Gehara, the Long-haired Kaiju<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chohatsu Daikaiju Gehara<\/strong> [Long-haired Giant Monster Gehara]<br \/>\n(2009; short; dir. Kiyotaka Taguchi)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Gehara poster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gehara-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, to catch up with the Hairy One you can watch his entire debut short film online <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/05\/gehara-is-here\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently G and Gehara had a bit of a newcomer grudge match in February at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, at least until they were interrupted&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Az7XMVsvZM0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Az7XMVsvZM0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here are some promotional stills:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2552\" title=\"yubari003\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari003.jpg\" alt=\"yubari003\" width=\"459\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari003.jpg 500w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari003-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2551\" title=\"yubari002\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari002.jpg\" alt=\"yubari002\" width=\"450\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari002.jpg 500w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari002-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2550\" title=\"yubari001\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari001.jpg\" alt=\"yubari001\" width=\"460\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari001.jpg 473w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/yubari001-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;ll see an actual cinematic meeting of the two independent film kaiju sometime!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">www3.nhk.or.jp<\/a> via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery; pics from <em>G<\/em> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifijapan.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/29\/g-new-independent-kaiju-film-from-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\">SciFi Japan<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifijapan.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/29\/g-new-independent-kaiju-film-from-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You remember G, right? No, not Godzilla but one of his recent descendents. G (2008; short, 48 min.; dir. Kiyotaka Taguchi) As a reminder, check him out here. And don&#8217;t forget his tin-plated nemesis: How about Gehara, the Long-haired Kaiju? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/29\/g-vs-gehara\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4,44,91,75,3,94,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}