{"id":398,"date":"2008-04-01T06:09:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T20:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/01\/dreams-of-godzilla\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T06:09:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T20:09:43","slug":"dreams-of-godzilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/01\/dreams-of-godzilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Godzilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Godzilla may have gone into retirement, but that doesn&#8217;t stop people from dreaming. It seems that the Big G returns to Japanese cinema screens in <strong>Always-zoku san-ch\u00f4me no y\u00fbhi<\/strong> [aka Always &#8211; Sunset on Third Street 2] (2007; dir. Takashi Yamazaki) &#8212; sequel to the same director&#8217;s multi-award-winning mega-hit drama <strong>Always san-ch\u00f4me no y\u00fbhi<\/strong> (2005).<\/p>\n<p>In a two-minute dream sequence, the Big G makes a nostalgic visit to the film&#8217;s 1959 Tokyo neighbourhood as an all-CGI giant &#8212; and the effect looks considerably more Godzilla-like than the maligned 1998 US effort.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/alwaysg1godzilla.jpg\" title=\"Godzilla in Always 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/alwaysg1godzilla.jpg\" alt=\"Godzilla in Always 2\" height=\"372\" width=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/alwaysg2.jpg\" title=\"Always Godzilla 2 screenshots\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/alwaysg2.jpg\" alt=\"Always Godzilla 2 screenshots\" height=\"454\" width=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarstarkas.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/godzillas-back-in-cgi-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">TarsTarkas.net<\/a> via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery<\/p>\n<p>On the film, see <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/ff20071102a2.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Japan Times Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godzilla may have gone into retirement, but that doesn&#8217;t stop people from dreaming. It seems that the Big G returns to Japanese cinema screens in Always-zoku san-ch\u00f4me no y\u00fbhi [aka Always &#8211; Sunset on Third Street 2] (2007; dir. Takashi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/01\/dreams-of-godzilla\/\">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":[12,4,44,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}