70 years of Godzilla films make for a truly titanic number of kaiju that appear across the franchise. Some of those monsters are friends of humanity, some are foes, and some go back and forth, but ...

Tokusatsu is a Japanese term for live action film or television drama that makes heavy use of special effects, and often deals with science fiction, fantasy or horror. The most popular types of ...

The Amherst Public Library, 221 Spring St., holds the Tokusatsu Club at 6 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of the month. Forest Dodson, a patron of the Amherst Public Library, created the Tokusatsu Club. “I ...

In horror circles, it’s an all-too-common situation to hear someone lead a conversation about special effects by judging them for their lack of realism. Whether the costumes or the prosthetics are ...

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A lost film considered one of Japan's first Tokusatsu films. The effects were done by Fuminori Ohashi, who claims to have been a modeling consultant for Godzilla 1954 (this claim is disputed by ...

The Transforming Human Series (変身人間シリーズ Henshin Ningen Shirīzu), also unofficially known as the "Mutant Trilogy," is a trilogy of science-fiction tokusatsu films produced by Toho from 1958 to 1960. It ...

Pacific Rim drew inspiration from a wide breadth of mecha anime and “man in suit” tokusatsu films. Fans were quick to think of contemporary hits like Neon Genesis Evangelion, or recent revivals like ...