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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.
' 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.
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.
Feb 2, 2024 · That story evolved from the screen treatments that Shigeru Kayama—here translated by Jeffrey Angles—wrote for the first two films in the series, and was famously vital in helping the postwar Japanese to express their fears and traumas about the all-too-recent atomic bombings that shattered the nation.
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.
Sep 19, 2023 · Published in Japan in July 1955—shortly after the first Godzilla sequel, Motoyoshi Oda’s Godzilla Raids Again (for which Kayama also penned a foundational story), premiered in theaters—the text consists of Kayama adapting the films, with increments of his imagination sprinkled throughout.
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 ...
