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Ishirō Honda Quotes

1911–1993 Japan

Ishirō Honda (本多猪四郎) (7 May 1911 - 28 February 1993) was a Japanese director and one of the creators of the Godzilla franchise.

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Ghidrah was merely meant to be a modern interpretation of the eight-headed snake of Japanese myth.

I don't really have a positive or negative opinion about them [the Heisei Godzilla films]. The special effects technically are very sophisticated, but the films lack imagination. It seems as if all Toho is trying to do is show things being destroyed. I don't fault the members of the production department, though, because I know that that is what Toho's executives are demanding.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ishirō Honda (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.