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Watched With: Tyler, Jordan, Amberly
Hitoshi Matsumoto became a name to watch for me with this film. A documentary style look at a Japan where their fabled kaiju giant monsters were real and giant men were the countries protectors.
The character at the center of the film is a little bittersweet. He's very funny to watch but the whole film is tainted with a sadness. It's an interesting statement about the degradation of these once iconic allegorical stories to mere spectacle to nothing more that cheap saturday morning kids tv shows, as referenced in the utterly bizarre finale.
Despite this sad theme, the film itself is very amusing in that insane Japanese way. The subdued documentary segments are interspersed with giant cg monster fights that are just as absurd. It's a bit of a riddle of a film but I really like it and what it has to say about the breakdown of this proud tradition of filmmaking.
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