Heisei era

And the advantage now is that I am going to add on a revamped audio remastered edition of that episode following my Godzilla 1985 breakdown.

So, yes, if you were here for the Matt, if you were here for the Heisei Godzilla, we got you covered.

Get your Mazers on.

Get your Super X on.

However, it did, through home media distribution, it did become a cult classic over time.

The film, despite all this, was the last Godzilla film produced by Toho to have a theatrical run in the United States until Godzilla 2000, which I actually saw in the theaters, my first one.

The film led to a sequel, Godzilla vs. Biollante, and really kicked off the Heisei era.

So Godzilla was back.

Or hire like a company, you know?

James, if you want to open that can of worms, then I have to ask you, what was your favorite Heisei movie again?

And

why did the anti-Godzilla gun have to be shaped like Godzilla instead of just being a

Surely some sort of like claw thing would be way, like it's just, it's just nonsense.

Now I'm imagining like if instead, like you kept the top half of Mechanic Kong, but gave him like a tank lower half, like Dino Tank from Ultra 7.

But all this talk got me thinking that I think that in the Heisei era, you're right, it's funny they made Mechagodzilla, but then the next film they made a Heisei Moguera split into an actual tank and like somewhat flying ship.

Yeah.

Just, you know.

Uh, they survived the Heisei era with the massive Japanese economic bubble and its catastrophic collapse

Right

And, and now they are surviving the Reiwa era with, uh, the disruptive internet age and artificial intelligence

Look, and I'm only like a specific era of it too.

I'm a Heisei guy, so like the 2000s.

I'm specifically Neo-Heisei, so like 09 and up.

Because the 2000s...

People swear by it.

According to the Imperial Household Agency's Kyoto office, the roof of the Shishinden is redone once every 30 years or so.

The last touch-up lasted from 1989 until 1990 over the changing of the Shō era to the Heisei era .

Visitors can view the Shishinden from the south garden one final time before restoration work begins from October 8-12 during the autumn exhibition when the Kyoto Imperial Palace is open to the public.

On display inside will be the Takamakura throne that Emperor Naruhito used for his enthronement ceremony in 2019 as well as the Makodai seat used by Empress Masako at that ceremony.

According to the Imperial Household Agency's Kyoto office, the roof of the Shishinden is redone once every 30 years or so.

The last touch-up lasted from 1989 until 1990 over the changing of the Showa era, 1926 to 1989, to the Heisei era, 1989 to 2019.

Visitors can view the Shishinden from the South Garden one final time before restoration work begins from October 8 to 12 during the autumn exhibition when the Kyoto Imperial Palace is open to the public.

On display inside will be the Takamakura throne that Emperor Naruhito used for his enthronement ceremony in 2019 as well as the Mikodai seat used by Empress Masako at that ceremony.

And he was actually a very big fan of the Showa era Godzilla.

So like, you know, you've got your Godzilla versus guy again, Godzilla raids again, all those from like the, 60s and 70s and 50s so and he actually was not a very big fan of the 80s 90s Godzilla of the Heisei era

wow okay gotcha so he he seems like the type of person to be like we're gonna return back to to form kind of well yeah

he he basically thought like you know that these movies should be a lot more fun because that's kind of what they were intended for and he wanted to to make this movie um not just for kids because he even made the cut so we had made like the com i had a comment a long time ago on one of the other episodes that a lot of these other godzilla movies were shown with like ham taro cartoons yes and and he was like what adult would want to go see a godzilla movie if they have to go watch a ham taro movie beforehand

He, uh, the building he's in is attacked by Godzilla, so he's in direct danger, like the rest of the characters.

In this, he's on the other side of the ocean, on the other side of the country, and he's just sitting in a room like most people will do in the Heisei movies-

Yeah

... looking at a giant screen, and just says, "Everything you do will fail." [laughs]

Yeah

...

some in Heisei films.

Well, later on, yeah.

This week on Kaiju Versus History Podcast, we start our self-reflective look back at the last 100 years of Kaiju filmmaking with a special episode, Fresh Eyes, and a retrospective, nostalgic look at the genre and the last four years of our lives.

Will the sub-genre continue for another 100 years, or have we heard the highest height of the Heisei and the down, it's all downhill from here? Uh, find out as we rank them and thank them.

This is Kaiju Versus History, Eras of Kaiju Eiga.

[upbeat music] Welcome back to Kaiju Versus History.

But in the world of Kaiju since the, uh, since King Kong and, and things like that, we've had three emperors in Japan.

Hirohito, who was, uh, during World War II, also known as Emperor Showa.

Uh, Akihito, who was known as Emperor Heisei.

And starting in 2019, the most recent is Naruhito, uh, his son, AKA Emperor Reiwa.