It came from Japan! The colossal monster rises from the harbour and lays an apocalyptic smackdown on the horizon, taking a moment to pose in front of the smoking carnage and… it’s not Godzilla.
In the wake of the original Gojira’s box office waves, Toho studios pitted their unhouse-trained anti-hero against an unsavoury assortment of kaiju – literally ‘strange beast’ or, more accurately, vast city killing-monsters.
Meanwhile, Toho’s rivals tried to piggyback on the big guy’s success with a series of remarkably similar, if legally distinctive, kaijus of their own.
And with Godzilla returning to renovate coastlines in May, here’s the coat-tail hangers that we’d like to see follow suit… ideally, in a rubber one.
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