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Author Ryfle, Steve, author

Title Ishiro Honda : a life in film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa / Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski ; with Yuuko Honda-Yun ; preface by Martin Scorsese
Published Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2017

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Contents Cover -- ISHIRO HONDA -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES: 1911â#x80;#x93;45 -- 1. A Boy from the Mountains -- 2. Tokyo -- 3. Film School Lessons -- 4. A Reluctant Soldier -- 5. Forging Bonds -- 6. War -- II. AWAKENINGS: 1946â#x80;#x93;54 -- 7. Starting Over -- 8. Allegiances and Alliances -- 9. The Documentaries -- Ise-shima (1949), Story of a Co-op (1950) -- 10. Sea, Land, and Sky -- The Blue Pearl (1951), The Skin of the South (1952),
The Man Who Came to Port (1952), Adolescence Part 2 (1953), Eagle of the Pacific (1953), Farewell Rabaul (1954) -- III. SCIENCE FICTION: 1954â#x80;#x93;64 -- 11. No Laughing Matter -- Godzilla (1954) -- 12. Obligations -- Love Makeup (1955), Mother and Son (1955), Half Human (1955) -- 13. Youth Movement -- Young Tree (1956), Night School (1956), People of Tokyo, Goodbye (1956), -- Rodan (1956) -- 14. Lovers and Aliens -- Good Luck to These Two (1957), A Teapickerâ#x80;#x99;s Song of Goodbye (1957), -- A Rainbow Plays in My Heart (1957),
A Farewell to the Woman I Called My Sister (1957), The Mysterians (1957)15. Brides, Blobs, and a Bomb -- Song for a Bride (1958), The H- Man (1958), Varan the Unbelievable (1958) -- 16. Marriage, Money, and the Moon -- An Echo Calls You (1959), Inao, Story of an Iron Arm (1959), -- Seniors, Juniors, Co-workers (1959), Battle in Outer Space (1959) -- 17. Accidental Monsters -- The Human Vapor (1960), Mothra (1961), A Man in Red (1961) -- 18. Going Global -- Gorath (1962), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) -- 19. Dangerous Waters -- Matango (1963), Atragon (1963)
20. Monsters and GangstersMothra vs. Godzilla (1964), Dogora (1964), -- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) -- IV. GOOD-BYE, GODZILLA: 1965â#x80;#x93;75 -- 21. East Meets West -- Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965), -- The War of the Gargantuas (1966), Come Marry Me (1966) -- 22. Monsters or Bust -- King Kong Escapes (1967), Destroy All Monsters (1968), Latitude Zero (1969), -- All Monsters Attack (1969), Space Amoeba (1970), Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) -- V. AT KUROSAWAâ#x80;#x99;S SIDE: 1976â#x80;#x93;93 -- 23. Rhapsody in Autumn
AfterwordIshiro Honda Filmography -- Notes -- Index
Summary "Examines the life and career of Japanese director Ishiro Honda, including analysis of his films"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Honda, Ishirō, 1911-1993.
SUBJECT Honda, Ishirō, 1911-1993 fast
Subject Motion picture producers and directors -- Japan -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion picture producers and directors
Japan
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Godziszewski, Ed, author
LC no. 2017024649
ISBN 9780819577412
0819577413