“Space Amoeba was essentially the last fresh giant monster film from Toho’s Showa era. After this 1970 entry, the rest of their giant monster films were Godzilla pictures.” Space Amoeba is mostly a rehash of elements we’ve seen before at Toho. Alien life forms have come to conquer the planet and use a human vessel…

Related by the very thing they thirst for – Blood. KFNExpert Tohosaurus weighs in on one of Toho’s darker, more ambitious films: War of the Gargantuas is a movie that stems from another somewhat dark-themed monster movie, 1965’s Frankenstein vs Baragon. Even from the beginning it has a sort of dark theme, with a sinister…

A Battle for the Ages. Two Kings of Pop Culture – Who will take the Crown? King Kong vs Godzilla was the result of vigorous labor and politics on Toho’s behalf. The famed Japanese studio held a desire to pit Godzilla against another titan of pop culture for years, and had considered many classic monsters like Dracula…