So what's the deal with the guys?

Well I can't answer those questions, but I do recall seeing that primetime
special with Belushi as Godzilla! Saw it once and never forgot it!

My boys are into Godzilla, having just discovered him last year (they are 12).
They collect the DVDs and have about 75% of them. As a matter of fact, I will
be re-renting this film. We like that Jet Jaguar!

The little boy, Rokuro, is the little brother of Goro, the man that invents Jet Jaguar. As to the relationship between Goro and Jinkawa, that isn't really clear. It appears they're just friends, though could they be more? It's possible, and many reviewers have joked about it over the years, though that seems an odd implication for a kid's film. Honestly, there isn't really enough in the film to know either way, and it's not all that important either.

Rokuro (the little boy) is the little brother of Goro (the inventor). As for the relationship between Goro and Hiroshi (Rex Dart, Eskimo Spy), that's a little more complex.

It's an example of the confusion that can come when translating foreign movies into English. It isn't really clear to Americans watching the English dub because the word used by Hiroshi to describe Goro in the original Japanese version of the movie - senpai (commonly pronounced "sempai") - is basically untranslatable to a single word in English. Senpai is a Japanese word meaning a colleague (but not direct superior) who is higher then you in a social setting. High school and college students call upperclassmen senpai. Karate students call the older students senpai. Business workers call their senior co-workers (but not their bosses) senpai. Even just a personal mentor can be a senpai.

(Thanks Wikipedia!)

If Goro were some sort of professor or even a scientist with a doctorate Hiroshi would probably call him sensei. If the two were just friends socially there probably wouldn't be any honorifics used at all. So my guess is that they know each other either professionally or are in school together.

They were ambiguously gay, but in the 70's there were precious few Godzilla markets where an openly gay couple would be accepted. In fact, it's where Robert Smigel got the inspiration for what would eventually become the "Ambiguously Gay Duo", which were originally supposed to be dressed in the same color scheme as Jet Jaguar but Toho pulled out after they were satisfied and left Smigel hanging.


"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

And where all the women at?

I had no idea that John Belushi played Godzilla here. I always figured it was some random Japanese dude in the rubber suit