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how did they enlist Teruyoshi Nakano?


I don't get it - I always thought that North Korea and Japan were bitter enemies of each other, especially around the time this film was made. So what was Teruyoshi Nakano, THE premier special effects director of Toho studios from the late 60's to early 80's, doing working on this film? What was his function exactly? I'd assume he helped with the pyrotechnics as it resembles his work.

The suit design and composite shots are much worse than anything he was doing at the same period (look at Godzilla 1985).

I see that his career ended shortly afterward... did working on this film blacklist him in some way?

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possibly Teruyoshi Nakano just slapped the suit together and mailed it to them.

"Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet. . ."

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I don't get it - I always thought that North Korea and Japan were bitter enemies of each other, especially around the time this film was made.
Just because two governments don't get along doesn't mean ordinary people from the two countries can't cooperate on things.

"When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose?"
- Rousseau

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From what I've read, the Great Leader loved Godzilla and wanted to make a movie just as good, and hired them by telling them they would be working on a Hollywood movie, then flying them to North Korea. But then, since North Korea had nothing like the special effects technology available in Japan, and any request for equipment had to filter through the entire Communist infrastructure before it could be approved, they were stuck doing the best they could with whatever they could get hold of.

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