ALL of these Kaiju monster actors were incredibly tough going through what they did. Constant sweating, barely being able to breath through them, subjecting themselves to dirty Toho pool water for the ocean scenes. And having EXPLOSIVES detonate all over them it's just NOT an easy feat at all...!!! However, i have to say THANK YOU to ALL of them for the memories they left me with as a kid. And even now as an adult even though most of what we see is CGI oriented. I'll ALWAYS be a Kaiju fan for life...!!! :)
many people don't get how incredibly difficult it is to do these sort of roles, but this shows a firm representation of the rigors of the stress of said performances. I hope I can find a similar video documenting the 90's films.
RIP Haruo Nakajima we will all miss you. My favorite roles as Godzilla are: Gojira (1954), Mothra vs Godzilla (1964), Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (1964) and Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971).
I meet Nakajima at the Godzilla convention a few years ago. He told us when he played Rodan he almost drowned in the pool, but like you said in the video he acted like this accidents we're nothing haha
According to *some* sources I’ve found, Mr. Nakajima DID see action in WWII. He was a gunner aboard a Betty when it was attacked by a Hellcat, and was nearly killed in the sinking of HIJMS _Shinano_. He was 14 at the time. Mind you, there are other sources that contradict these, so some more research seems to be needed.
I enjoyed this as I grew up watching the TOHO giant monster movies. Amazing to find out what a hard job it actually was for a suit actor back then, especially Nakajima. That was dedication and professionalism. Blew me away a few years ago when I found out that he also played the green gargantua. I found it ironic because Godzilla was sort of a hero for me back then while the gargantua gave me nightmares after I saw that movie!
This was a very interesting video. I didn't realize how physically demanding these roles were for the actors who played the parts in the ToHo monster movies of years passed.
Happy 90th B Day Haruo Nakajima you where the best Godzilla,Frankenstein’s Monster and King Kong that ever lived you truly where The Man of A Thousand Monsters
The cool thing about suit acting vs CGI is this: your favorite monster has an actor playing them; they are not a culimation of graphics and sound effects, rather in this way they are more personable.
There was an article about Nakajima in a sci-fi magazine in which, while filming "War of The Gargantuas", the director wanted Nakajima to actually shove the woman (doll) into his mouth. Nakajima humbly asked the director if that scene not be done as he was concerned that it would greatly frighten children watching the movie. So the director took his advice and the scene was played, as we see today, in which Gargantua has the woman in his hand, the camera cuts away, and then in the next scene Gargantua has already chewed and is swallowing her. Still came across as a chilling scene, minus the actual vore.
Very fascinating! Yeah, pronunciation of the names is off but that's not the point of the video. I love anything to do with behind-the-scenes of films.
Many other people used suit animation. Take for example the early days of power rangers. Oh, and when I was younger I could not realize or even NOTICE that it was a guy in a suit.
There's a lot of nuance to this stuff that you don't really think about until you pay close attention. Seeing stuff like Godzilla throw his arms up in annoyance Monsterland's containment system at the beginning of Destroy All Monsters or his goofy laugh in Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster really drive that home.
I'd love to buy this costume form To Ho I'd love to go around town with this. I'll suffer in honor for nacagimi just as he did in this suit. I'll use it for all Halloweens to come.
What making a cosplay costume of Godzilla that you could wear it like the actor did and hold a building or a part of a building that could be a remote to control the mouth and the roar of Godzilla and the roar could be from a small yet loud speaker to produce the sound in the mouth :)
"Second Showa Godzilla's Abilities": Amphibious lifestyle, atomic breath, durability, energy absorption and projection, flight, intelligence, magnetic powers, physical abilities, and regeneration. "Second Showa Godzilla's Weaknesses": Electricity and Subzero temperatures. "Anti-Godzilla weaponry": Due to Godzilla's size, super-strength, and regenerative abilities, he is invulnerable to most forms of conventional attack. However, Alien Weaponry has been shown to be strong enough to wound him with Gigan's Buzzsaw and claw arm ripping into him, and Mechagodzilla had gunned down Godzilla severely wounding him.
its so dissapointing that suitmation is seen as poor and cheezy, when it is in fact very efficient, takes a lot of backwork, and when done right, the end result can be superior in realism to stopmotion and cgi. compared to american monster movies coming out in the 50s, japanese monster movies were more expensive. suitmation should be taken more seriously and appreciated, especially when american films still sometimes use it to this day!
Guess what, not even the people who make these movies think it's important enough to get upset about. Maybe you should chill out and just enjoy these movies as camp without becoming obsessive about details? The people making the movies seem to think you should do that.
I wish hiro Nakajima can imagine that godzilla would be something in along the lines of a giant toad studied the movements to his lunch to the zoo each day is that he can study the movements of large creatures such as bears and leopards
+Jared Cunningham 2009 Japanese don't use L sounds when they speak. in English, that is what it spells out. anguirus is how they say it, so America translated his name into that.
@@nope4216 It's actually supposed to be Angilus, which is a condensed form of Angilosaurus (Ankylosaurus). The American way many people say it, Anguirus, is not how it was originally spoken in 1955's Godzilla vs. Angilus."
Godzilla Definition:A radioactive lizard/dinosaur with stegosaurus spikes and is very tall and can breathe radioactive blue fire A gorilla and whale Gojira
I Wish he imagine that godzilla would be something to do with the along the lines of a giant toad studied the movements of large creatures such as bears and tigers godzilla would be something to do with the along the lines of a giant bullfrog that he studied the movements of large creatures such as bears and leopards he wanted to be appeal to preadolescene children portray and the monsters with more and more anthropomorphism as the series progressed to appeal more to older children
You wanna see the true contemporary culmination of this sort of suit monster acting, its peak in the Western world, you just google up "Bolaji Badejo alien 1979". The still-reigning king.
I wish Mr tsuburya wanted appeal to preadolescene children generally ends with the beginning of purptery but may also be denied alert as ending with the start with the teenage years bring out challenges and exitanits
Im not being mean or anything but Hedorah is pronounced he-door-a,Ghidorah is pronounced gih-door-ah,and Anguirus is anger-us.Lots of people pronounce Ghidorah and Anguirus wrong.
THEY SHOULD CHANGE MINYA'S LOOK MORE LIKE HIS FATHER, AFTHER THE THREE MONTHS PAST MINYA GREW INTO ADOLOSENCT MINYA , THE SUIT WAS BULIT TO BE MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE BIGGER AND STRONGER AND STRONGER AND STRONGER AND BRAVER AND BRAVER AND BRAVER, AND HE'S STARTING GROWIN GROWNUP SPINES LIKE HIS DAD HIS TAIL START TO GROW A LIITLE MORE LONGER, AND STARTING GROWING EARS, HIS GROWNUP TEETH STARTS TO GROW IN HIS MOUTH, HIS EYE PUPIULS LOOK A LITTLE SMALLER AND FINALLY HIS FIRE BRETATH BECOMES STRONGER
THE SHOULD MAKE SQUEAL FILM CALLED THE REVENGE OF THE SON OF GODZILLA , WHERE MINYA BECOMES OLDER AND BIGGER BIGGER BIGGER AND BRAVER BRAVER AND BRAVER AND STRONGER AND STRONGER AND STRONGER, THEY SHOULD MAKE THE MINYA SUIT COLORED A LITTLE MORE DARK GREEN AND SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TO CHANGE AGAINEST MINYA IN COLOSER IN REAL COMBAT TRAINING BATTLEING STYLE AND MINYA BECOMES ADOLOSENT MINYA
ALL of these Kaiju monster actors were incredibly tough going through what they did. Constant sweating, barely being able to breath through them, subjecting themselves to dirty Toho pool water for the ocean scenes. And having EXPLOSIVES detonate all over them it's just NOT an easy feat at all...!!! However, i have to say THANK YOU to ALL of them for the memories they left me with as a kid. And even now as an adult even though most of what we see is CGI oriented. I'll ALWAYS be a Kaiju fan for life...!!! :)
Well said!!!
many people don't get how incredibly difficult it is to do these sort of roles, but this shows a firm representation of the rigors of the stress of said performances. I hope I can find a similar video documenting the 90's films.
Maybe the Millenium films could be next? Or even how the effect works of Super Sentai. How do they make the miniature city sets?
These films are art, and hilarious all in one.
3 cheers for this great actor.
RIP Haruo Nakajima we will all miss you. My favorite roles as Godzilla are:
Gojira (1954), Mothra vs Godzilla (1964), Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (1964) and Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971).
R.I.P Haruo Nakajima
Haruo Nakajima*
Not Horou. It's Haruo.
He will be a dinosaur of destruction but not forgotten
I meet Nakajima at the Godzilla convention a few years ago. He told us when he played Rodan he almost drowned in the pool, but like you said in the video he acted like this accidents we're nothing haha
According to *some* sources I’ve found, Mr. Nakajima DID see action in WWII. He was a gunner aboard a Betty when it was attacked by a Hellcat, and was nearly killed in the sinking of HIJMS _Shinano_. He was 14 at the time.
Mind you, there are other sources that contradict these, so some more research seems to be needed.
14 at the time! Holy shit.
holy shit like THE shinano aircraft carrier?
His Godzilla will always be my favorite.
Rest In Peace Haruo Nakajima
I enjoyed this as I grew up watching the TOHO giant monster movies. Amazing to find out what a hard job it actually was for a suit actor back then, especially Nakajima. That was dedication and professionalism. Blew me away a few years ago when I found out that he also played the green gargantua. I found it ironic because Godzilla was sort of a hero for me back then while the gargantua gave me nightmares after I saw that movie!
Its amazing that the other suit actor Katsumi Tezuka is still around.
This was a very interesting video. I didn't realize how physically demanding these roles were for the actors who played the parts in the ToHo monster movies of years passed.
when I saw my first Godzilla movie I didn't realize how heavy the suits were this topic was very interesting
Happy 90th B Day Haruo Nakajima you where the best Godzilla,Frankenstein’s Monster and King Kong that ever lived you truly where The Man of A Thousand Monsters
Very cool, i think godzilla fans, can truly enjoy seeing the video, thumb up!!!
You have to give credit to Nakajima, Hirose, Tezuka, Satsuma, Kitagawa, and all the other costume actors for all their effort and sheer toughness.
The cool thing about suit acting vs CGI is this: your favorite monster has an actor playing them; they are not a culimation of graphics and sound effects, rather in this way they are more personable.
Great video good information thank you
There was an article about Nakajima in a sci-fi magazine in which, while filming "War of The Gargantuas", the director wanted Nakajima to actually shove the woman (doll) into his mouth. Nakajima humbly asked the director if that scene not be done as he was concerned that it would greatly frighten children watching the movie. So the director took his advice and the scene was played, as we see today, in which Gargantua has the woman in his hand, the camera cuts away, and then in the next scene Gargantua has already chewed and is swallowing her. Still came across as a chilling scene, minus the actual vore.
Very fascinating! Yeah, pronunciation of the names is off but that's not the point of the video. I love anything to do with behind-the-scenes of films.
RUclips:Lets recommend this video 9 years later
By the way i liked the vid
I will never watch these movies the same way again.
Many other people used suit animation. Take for example the early days of power rangers. Oh, and when I was younger I could not realize or even NOTICE that it was a guy in a suit.
Beyond just seeing how truly awe inspiring the suit work was, this doc just gave me a whole new respect for Minilla/Minya.
True...true.
Awesome
There's a documentary called Men in Suits and Nakajima's in it.
There's a lot of nuance to this stuff that you don't really think about until you pay close attention. Seeing stuff like Godzilla throw his arms up in annoyance Monsterland's containment system at the beginning of Destroy All Monsters or his goofy laugh in Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster really drive that home.
I agree. You have to give total respect and admiration to these gentlemen.
What an actor!
I'd love to buy this costume form To Ho I'd love to go around town with this. I'll suffer in honor for nacagimi just as he did in this suit. I'll use it for all Halloweens to come.
What making a cosplay costume of Godzilla that you could wear it like the actor did and hold a building or a part of a building that could be a remote to control the mouth and the roar of Godzilla and the roar could be from a small yet loud speaker to produce the sound in the mouth :)
He will always be to me The True King of the Monsters
Seeing the original Godzilla move around knowing that the guy inside was going through absolute hell is kinda odd…
This truly is......The Art of Suit Acting.
Great childhood memories, thank you.
I still find amazing that after 50 years of Godzilla, the suit acting somehow still works.
I love Godzilla vs. Hedorah, I love Hedorah, they did their damnest and I think Hedorah had a lot of personality for a giant monster.
"1954 Godzilla's Abilities": Amphibious lifestyle, atomic breath, durability, bites, tail, physical abilities. "1954 Godzilla's Weaknesses": Oxygen Destroyer.
We need more suitmation kaiju movies
"Second Showa Godzilla's Abilities":
Amphibious lifestyle, atomic breath, durability, energy absorption and projection, flight, intelligence, magnetic powers, physical abilities, and regeneration. "Second Showa Godzilla's Weaknesses": Electricity and Subzero temperatures. "Anti-Godzilla weaponry":
Due to Godzilla's size, super-strength, and regenerative abilities, he is invulnerable to most forms of conventional attack. However, Alien Weaponry has been shown to be strong enough to wound him with Gigan's Buzzsaw and claw arm ripping into him, and Mechagodzilla had gunned down Godzilla severely wounding him.
Great video thanks for uploading :), I love these kinda films, I've already seen Godzilla vs Biollante, and the Gamera trilogy :)
Heisei Godzilla, the giant Irradiated Godzillasaurus. Heights: 80 meters tall and 100 meters tall. Relative: Godzilla Junior (Adoptive Son). Forms: Godzillasaurus, Supercharged and Burning Godzilla (GVD).
Long live the king of the monsters.
HE SHOULD IMAGINE THAT GODZILLA WILL BE SOMETHING ON ALONG THE LINES OF A GIGANTIC BULLFROG OR A TOAD
Great...
1954 Godzilla, the giant Irradiated Prehistoric Amphibious Reptile. Height: 50 meters tall.
9:01 Sponcer
Three cheers for the actual King Of The Monsters.
Also is everyone a martial artist and a wrestler?
that is so cool video
The Second Showa Godzilla, the giant Irradiated Prehistoric Amphibious Reptile. Height: 50 meters tall. Relative: Minilla (Adoptive Son).
Cool
it sucks he could only wear the suit for three minutes at a time
Heisei Godzilla's Abilities: Radioactive Heat Ray, Nigh-Invulnerability, Immense Strength, Nuclear Pulse, Spiral Heat Ray, Underwater Breathing, Energy Absorption & Redirection, Intelligence, Telepathy ,and Electrical Resurrection. Heisei Godzilla's Weaknesses: Cadmium, Meltdown, Secondary brain, and Subzero temperature. Anti-Godzilla weaponry: Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria, Mecha-King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, Super X, and M.O.G.U.E.R.A..
This is really incredibly interesting. Thank you so much for posting this:)
tell me what is the gigan suit made of
Fantastic videos. They really are :) Keep up all the good work ;)
RIP Haruo Nakajima
its so dissapointing that suitmation is seen as poor and cheezy, when it is in fact very efficient, takes a lot of backwork, and when done right, the end result can be superior in realism to stopmotion and cgi. compared to american monster movies coming out in the 50s, japanese monster movies were more expensive. suitmation should be taken more seriously and appreciated, especially when american films still sometimes use it to this day!
Did you see that guy with sun glasses that was next to the godzzila it was psy gamnam style
It must be such a tough thing to do, I wouldn't last a day in that job. The heat would probably kill me lol.
Yay Suitmation! :3
Guess what, not even the people who make these movies think it's important enough to get upset about. Maybe you should chill out and just enjoy these movies as camp without becoming obsessive about details? The people making the movies seem to think you should do that.
Nigeria?! WTF! There's a Mogera in Godzilla Vs Space Godzilla! Weird! This one should be 1 and the other Mogera 2! Just like MechaGodzilla!
I wish hiro Nakajima can imagine that godzilla would be something in along the lines of a giant toad studied the movements to his lunch to the zoo each day is that he can study the movements of large creatures such as bears and leopards
"Angilus" LMAO
+Jared Cunningham 2009 Japanese don't use L sounds when they speak. in English, that is what it spells out. anguirus is how they say it, so America translated his name into that.
@@nope4216 It's actually supposed to be Angilus, which is a condensed form of Angilosaurus (Ankylosaurus). The American way many people say it, Anguirus, is not how it was originally spoken in 1955's Godzilla vs. Angilus."
Was Nakajima-san looked upon as a horror actor in Japan the same way, say, Christopher Lee was in England or Boris Karloff was here?
amazing guys!
that was awsome
Thank you for this, anonymous video poster
No problem, anonymous video watcher :)
From: Godzilla Raids Again (Classic Media DVD).
as you most know the original godzilla suit had about 10 cups of sweat for each 5 minites of zcting
Should I have one channel for each passion I have?
Godzilla
Definition:A radioactive lizard/dinosaur with stegosaurus spikes and is very tall and can breathe radioactive blue fire
A gorilla and whale
Gojira
Tsubararaya Productions and later TOEI take notes on how it works.
THEY SHOULD MAKE THE MONSTERS LESS SOFTEN AND LESS SLOWER INTO EXTREMLEY RUFFTEN TUFFTEN AND FASTER SPEED FOR LEGNEDARY OF THE MONSTERS OF THE EAST,
No it's pronounced as hed-or-ah
Actually, if he were in there for more than three minutes, he would've passed out, or fallen because of the weight.
I Wish he imagine that godzilla would be something to do with the along the lines of a giant toad studied the movements of large creatures such as bears and tigers godzilla would be something to do with the along the lines of a giant bullfrog that he studied the movements of large creatures such as bears and leopards he wanted to be appeal to preadolescene children portray and the monsters with more and more anthropomorphism as the series progressed to appeal more to older children
You wanna see the true contemporary culmination of this sort of suit monster acting, its peak in the Western world, you just google up "Bolaji Badejo alien 1979". The still-reigning king.
I wish Mr tsuburya wanted appeal to preadolescene children generally ends with the beginning of purptery but may also be denied alert as ending with the start with the teenage years bring out challenges and exitanits
From The Godzilla Collection (Classic Media)
14 min of school out the window
Can anybody tell me which bandit Nakajima played in "Seven Samurai"?
One of the first bandits that the samurai killed, he was the bandit who grabbed the tree and got slashed across the back.
Gaila? It's Gaira.
they would make godzilla and the monsters appeal to predlscene children smarting up
Im not being mean or anything but Hedorah is pronounced he-door-a,Ghidorah is pronounced gih-door-ah,and Anguirus is anger-us.Lots of people pronounce Ghidorah and Anguirus wrong.
IN GODZILLA VS MEGALON THEY SHOULD MAKE THE GODZILLA SUIT LOOK
MORE YOUNG ADULT LIKE THE COUSTUME LOOK BIGGER AND BIGGER AND
BIGGER
"Gigan" always had that overdone clumsy look.....I can see how the actor would have an issue with movement.
i know they put a peraon in the suit made a buildings and land and others but what about the people so small
2 different camera shots combined into one pictures. that was a special effect technique used from the 1950s to 90s
+shiit winds picture*
superimposed or green screen
THEY SHOULD MAKE A ANGUIRUS SUIT IN THE BODY IN THIN- LITTLE REATENULAR NOW TABBY LIKE CREATURE
SO THE ANGUIRUS SUIT LOOK LIKE THE ANGUIRUS 1955
AND THE STUDIOS THEY SHOULD BRING BACK THE SECOND RODAN THEY
WILL BE BACK TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER RODAN.
HE CAN STUDY THE BETTER MOVEMENTS SUCH AS LIONS LEOPARDS, TIGERS OR BEARS
THEY SHOULD CHANGE MINYA'S LOOK MORE LIKE HIS FATHER, AFTHER
THE THREE MONTHS PAST MINYA GREW INTO ADOLOSENCT MINYA , THE
SUIT WAS BULIT TO BE MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE BIGGER AND STRONGER AND STRONGER AND STRONGER AND BRAVER AND BRAVER AND BRAVER,
AND HE'S STARTING GROWIN GROWNUP SPINES LIKE HIS DAD HIS TAIL START
TO GROW A LIITLE MORE LONGER, AND STARTING GROWING EARS,
HIS GROWNUP TEETH STARTS TO GROW IN HIS MOUTH, HIS EYE PUPIULS
LOOK A LITTLE SMALLER AND FINALLY HIS FIRE BRETATH BECOMES STRONGER
HE CAN STUDY THE MOVEMENTS SUCH AS TIGERS OR BEARS
Good documentary, but it could be improved if it had some background music to accompany it.
THE SHOULD MAKE SQUEAL FILM CALLED THE REVENGE OF THE SON OF GODZILLA , WHERE MINYA BECOMES OLDER AND BIGGER BIGGER BIGGER
AND BRAVER BRAVER AND BRAVER AND STRONGER AND STRONGER AND STRONGER, THEY SHOULD MAKE THE MINYA SUIT COLORED A LITTLE MORE
DARK GREEN AND SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TO CHANGE AGAINEST MINYA
IN COLOSER IN REAL COMBAT TRAINING BATTLEING STYLE AND MINYA BECOMES ADOLOSENT MINYA
its my mom's channel but i don't
Gh v c Jones