Title: Original GODZILLA Suit Actor to Appear in Chicago!
Description: Haruo Nakajima @ G-Fest XV July 4th-6th
Description: Haruo Nakajima @ G-Fest XV July 4th-6th
August Ragone - April 1, 2008 07:49 PM (GMT)
G-Fest XV, the annual Japanese Monsters Convention will be held from July 4th through July 6th, 2008, at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare. This year's Guests of Honor will include:
HARUO NAKAJIMA - From GODZILLA (1954) to GODZILLA VS. GIGAN (1972), Nakajima was the primary Godzilla suit-actor who also played other monsters, and also played the major monsters during the original run of Toho's Fantasy Films, including RODAN (1956) and THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966). Mr.Nakajima also appeared in numerous films including Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI (1954). Mr. Nakajima will be meeting and greeting with attendees and also receive G-Fest's "Mangled Skyscraper Award" for 2008.
G-Fest's other guests will include former UFC fighter-turned-actor DON FRYE, who played the prominent character of "Captain Douglas Gordon" in GODZILLA FINAL WARS (2004). This is Frye's first appearance at G-Fest.
ROBERT SCOTT FIELD, who played "Android M-11" in GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH (1991), who returns once again to moderate live programming translations, as well as host own sessions at G-Fest.
G-Fest's movie line up at the Pickwick Theatre this year will see the North American theatrical premiere of GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE (1989), as well as screenings of GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA (2002), DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968), MATANGO: ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE (1963), GODZILLA VS. GIGAN (1972) and OROCHI: THE EIGHT-HEADED DRAGON (1994).
For more information, go to the official website at G-fan.com
Kim Greene - April 7, 2008 12:40 AM (GMT)
That's cool to hear about Nakajima's appearance, Mr. Ragone, because only a few weeks ago I rented GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN, which had both the origianl Japanese version and the recut American verison of the film with a hilarious but informative commentary by a guy named Steve on the cultural differences between the two. There was also a whole extra documentary about all the guys who'd played Godzilla over the years, and Nakajima was featured prominently in it. Also finally saw GODZILLA:FINAL WARS and Don Frye was hilarious (and actually not too bad in it) considering he couldn't speak Japanese---I enjoyed the film though---the villain was hilarious,too--with his goofy glam rock posing and all.