![Mothra (1961) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21GV2EZBG9L._SL75_.jpg) | Mothra (1961) [VHS]
Buy used from: $5.48 [My Best Favourite!!] DVD is coming? Based on a relay novel by three main stream novelists, Shinichiro NAKAMURA, Takehiko FUKUNAGA, and Yoshie HOTTA. Please search each name by Google.
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 | For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands (Second Edition) by Jack Niedenthal
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $14.99 Where is "Infant (Beiru) Island"? Which nation is "Rolisica" ("Rossirica" in novel) who made Japan a semi-colony? Hint: Which airline was used by Clark Nelson?
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 | The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory (Asia's Transformations) by M. Molasky
Buy new: $195.00 / Used from: $232.60 Semi-colony! Although the Occupation of Japan was over in 1953, why are there foreign MPs everywhere in the movie and real Japan in 1961 (and still Okinawa)? Why Mothra attacked US Yokota AFB, Tokyo?
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 | Arming Japan by Michael J. Green
Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $2.65 In the original Japanese edition, why troop of SDF calls combat vehicle "Toku-sha" (Special car)? Because Japan is prohibited to have the military by the Constitution made by MacArthur's staff.
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 | Sugamo Prison, Tokyo: An Account of the Trial and Sentencing of Japanese War Criminals in 1948, by a U.S. Participant by John L. Ginn
Buy used from: $230.00 Starred Frankie (Franky) SAKAI is former Jazz drummer for Occupation Army and became famous as actor by "Watashi-wa Kai-ni Naritai (I want to become a shellfish)", a Tragedy of the War Criminal Trial.
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![Shogun (2 Hour Feature) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512N501YXJL._SL75_.jpg) | Shogun (2 Hour Feature) [VHS]
Buy used from: $2.94 He has also the name as "Rakugo-ka" or traditional comic storyteller, KATSURA Bunsho. As his real name, Masatoshi SAKAI (1929-96), he later became Professor of the Osaka University of Arts.
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 | Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $18.95 Michi, the heroine was played by Kyoko KAGAWA who also plays a heroine of "Himeyuri-no To (Dir. by Tadashi IMAI. 1953. The Tower of Lilies)", a Tragedy of the Battle of Okinawa.
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 | Manster
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.49 "Rolisican" villain, Clark Nelson was played by Jerry ITO, a son of Michio ITO, legendary choreographer of pre-WWII Broadway Musical and the Ernie Pyle (Toho) Theater tookover by the Occupation Army.
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 | Mothra: The Best from 1961-1998 by Various Artists
Buy used from: $164.42 The exotic Lyric of "Mothra's Song" is written by Koji YUKI aka co-penname for Tomoyuki TANAKA, Shinichi SEKIZAWA, and Ishiro HONDA, based on Indonesian language supported by a foreign student.
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 | Mothra Song The Best
The Peanuts' another song "The Girls From Infant Island" is written by Susumu IKE. "Even if we are singing happy song, our spirits are sunk, in the bottom of ocean..." What does it mean?
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 | The Best Of Godzilla 1954-1975: Original Film Soundtracks by Various Artists
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $9.90 You can hear "Mothra's Song" in some other films such as "Godzilla vs. Mothra" too. Music for "Mothra" including the song is composed by Yuji KOSEKI. He also composed music for "Himeyuri-no To".
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| Godzilla King of the Monsters
Buy used from: $1.75 As you know, this is altered version. If you see original edition, you should notice that Godzilla is a monstromorphize of War and Nuke. Some scenes are after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Tokyo raid.
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 | Godzilla vs. Mothra
Buy used from: $2.12 [Some Otakus say this is the Best Godzilla Movie!!] aka "Godzilla vs. The Thing" or "Mosura tai Gojira ("Mosugoji")". The One and Only Monster who won Godzilla!! Yes, the Peace win the War, we hope...
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![The Burmese Harp [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BPC8GPJSL._SL75_.jpg) | The Burmese Harp [VHS]
Buy used from: $2.38 Akira "Gigantic" IFUKUBE also composed music for many other than Monster films including this famous war tragedy and "Children of A-Bomb". He is former President of the Tokyo College of Music.
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 | Partnership: The United States and Japan, 1951-2001 by Robert A. Wampler
Buy used from: $2.59 The large dispute about continuation of the U.S. Japan Security Treaty bisected public opinion in 1960 of Japan. The movie "Mothra" made the next year is not merely coincidence.
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 | Godzilla - The Ultimate Collection (Godzilla, King of the Monsters/Godzilla vs. Mothra/Godzilla's Revenge/Terror of Mechagodzilla/Rodan)
Buy used from: $34.86 Once Dir. Ishiro HONDA said "Movie can not enough describe war". So, in his monster movies he described something that usual war movies can't describe, I think. Yes, they are a kind of war movies!!
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 | Rebirth of Mothra 1&2
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.51 [ Music by Toshiyuki WATANABE, son of Michiaki "Chumei" WATANABE well known by musics for Anime & Tokusatsu ] Why new Mothra movies are not my favourites? Because they have not the side of war movies.
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 | King Kong Vs Godzilla/King Kong Escapes
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.85 "King Kong Vs Godzilla", so called "Kingoji". You know what the scene of King Kong (US) over the Diet Building (the Capitol of Japan) means, or not?
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 | Golden Best, Vol. 2 by Hibari Misora
Shinichi SEKIZAWA, screenwriter for most of Toho Sci-Fi Movies including "Mothra", soon became very famous lyricist. Hibari's "Yawara" (a million seller) is one of his bests.
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 | Rodan
Buy used from: $1.19 The creator, Ken Takeshi KURONUMA is also famous paranormal writer. He may be model of Dr. Ichinotani of "Ultra Q". Is the rumour that Kurosawa supported this classic film with anonymity true?
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 | Rashomon - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $14.35 It is said that this famous movie is an irony against the Tokyo War Criminal Trial and Sir Winston Churchill noticed it.
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 | Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (Critical Issue Book) by Anders Stephanson
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $3.82 The rhythm of "Mothra's Song" is adopted from common one among Indonesian and Japanese traditionals. Now, you know what is symbolized by captured little twin fairies.
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 | The Iraq War: A Military History by Williamson Murray
Buy new: $15.50 / Used from: $0.28 I'm not for "Atomic" Saddam. Do you remember what he did against Kuwait?
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 | Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies) by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $5.00 I'm not a revisionist but a skeptic. We skeptics are against revisionism and communism because both they are a sort of pseudo-science.
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 | Holst: The Planets/John Williams: Star Wars/Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.99 [Additional] Gustav Holst's "Japanese Suite" is composed by ask and support of Michio ITO, father of Jerry who played next a US diplomat who employs car driver played by Sakai in "The Last War".
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