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Mar 19, 2023 · Shigeru Kayama (香山 滋, Kayama Shigeru), born Koji Yamada (山田 鉀治, Yamada Kōji), was a Japanese novelist and screenwriter known for his works of fantasy and suspense. He is perhaps best recognized as the author of the original story treatments for Godzilla and its sequel Godzilla Raids Again.
Oct 23, 2023 · Both “Godzilla” and “Godzilla Raids Again” were written by Shigeru Kayama (1904-1975), a poet who became a popular author of pulpy stories that combined mystery, thrills and science fiction.
' Godzilla: Tokyo/Osaka Editions ') is a 1955 young adult kaiju novel by Shigeru Kayama . It is a novelization of the first two films in the Godzilla franchise produced by Toho, Godzilla (1954) and Godzilla Raids Again (1955), both of which were based on story outlines by Kayama.
Oct 29, 2023 · With “Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again” by Shigeru Kayama, devotees can finally read in English the two stories that together fully articulate the intentions behind the creation of Japan’s most...
Sep 19, 2023 · By placing one of the monster’s victims at center stage, Kayama creates a more engaging hero whose response to continuous assaults on Japan—and whose qualms with hopes of preserving Godzilla for science—emotionally resonate, as there’s personal history involved.
Shigeru Kayama’s novellas Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again in Jeffrey Angles’s new translation restore Godzilla’s metaphorical roots. The connection between Kayama’s novellas and the films isn’t made entirely clear until Angles’s comprehensive afterword.
Shigeru Kayama. Fantasy author known for writing the story for the original Godzilla film. He began writing while working in the Ministry of Finance in 1940. He won a sweepstakes in 1946 with his short story “Orang-Pendek’s Revenge,” which launched a recurring series and allowed him to leave his ministry job and make his living off of ...
Sep 27, 2023 · Shigeru Kayama was a surprisingly prolific writer in post-war Japan, blending a variety of genres through a large output of mostly short stories. Tomoyuki Tanaka, a producer at Toho, had read ...
Aug 4, 2023 · Shigeru Kayama (1904–1975) was a science fiction writer and scenarist whose early stories about monsters and mutated sea creatures attracted the attention of Tōhō Studios, who asked him...
Oct 3, 2023 · Awakened and transformed by nuclear weapons testing, Godzilla serves as a terrifying metaphor for humanity’s shortsighted destructiveness: this was the intent of Shigeru Kayama, the science fiction writer who drafted the 1954 original film and its first sequel and, in 1955, published these novellas.
