{"id":589,"date":"2008-04-28T14:17:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T04:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/update-guilala-and-beat-takeshi\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T04:49:17","slug":"update-guilala-and-beat-takeshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/update-guilala-and-beat-takeshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Guilala vs “Beat” Takeshi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryuganji.net<\/a> reports that Kitano Takeshi, the iconic actor\/director\/media personality, will be playing a costumed kaiju role in the now-in-production Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit<\/em> [aka Girara no Gyakushu: Towako Samitto Kiki Ippatsu]. In fact, he will look like this:<\/p>\n

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

This is Takemajin — a giant statue that comes to life in order to take on the politically insensitive Guilala (who is attacking the G8 Summit). As the name indicates, the character is a take on the classic Daimajin<\/em> statuesque kaiju-hero of the late 1960s. Takeshi’s comedic characters seem to have adopted a self-referential quality of late, continued here with that addition of “Take” to the “majin” name.<\/p>\n

Director Kawasaki Minoru commented on Beat’s presence thus:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past we\u2019ve seen Takeshi-san do his costumed schtick as \u2018Takechan-man\u2019, \u2018Red and White Mask\u2019 and for the \u2018Trans America Ultra Quiz\u2019, and he\u2019s a guy who has an unsurpassed fondness for Japan\u2019s traditional art of costumery. Right now, at a time when Japan\u2019s distinctive man-in-a-suit monster films are in danger of disappearing, he\u2019s the only guy who can save this genre. I can say without a doubt that thanks to Takeshi-san, this\u2019ll be a film that\u2019ll make people say \u201cNow this is a monster film that Japan can be proud of!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Others<\/a> have spotted some good-natured sour grapes in the role, as Takeshi’s Glory to the Film Maker<\/em> was soundly beaten at the box-office by a film about a battling giant hero, Dai Nipponjin<\/strong><\/a> [aka Big Man Japan], made by one of Takeshi’s chief comedy rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryuganji.net reports that Kitano Takeshi, the iconic actor\/director\/media personality, will be playing a costumed kaiju role in the now-in-production Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit [aka Girara no Gyakushu: Towako Samitto Kiki Ippatsu]. In fact, he will look … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4,44,54,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}