Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! by Stuart Galbraith IV

Author:Stuart Galbraith IV
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936239825
Publisher: Feral House

Invasion!

IN 1965, GAIJIN TALENT FACED NEW COMPETITION—FROM HOLLYWOOD ITSELF. JAPANESE MONSTER MOVIES WERE POPULAR ENOUGH IN THE U.S. TO WARRANT FULL-FLEDGED CO-PRODUCTIONS BETWEEN AMERICAN COMPANIES AND THE JAPANESE MAJORS. AND SO, FILM AND TELEVISION TALENT, GENERALLY ON THE DOWNSIDE OF THEIR CAREERS, FLEW TO TOKYO UNAWARE OF THE CULTURE SHOCK THAT WAS AWAITING THEM ... .

Robert Horton My agent called me one day and said there was a movie being made in Tokyo. I read the script, and I told him it really wasn’t very good. And he said, “Yeah, but by the time this film is made you’ll have two or three others in the can.” So I did it. We made that film in September-October 67, and it was fun being there. My wife and I spent three really nice months in Tokyo. She came home with knowledge about ikabana and Japanese cooking and what not.

Patricia Medina Jo[seph Cotten] and I had never been to Japan. We didn’t think it was great script but we loved traveling, and we got to work together.

Rhodes Reason I had seen the first one, with Perry Mason. I knew the film was very bad before we made it. But I couldn’t turn down the trip to Japan, because of the cultural experience. And the opportunity to work in the Japanese film industry, to see how their country actually made motion pictures compared to ours. I’m glad I did it, because I learned a great deal from the Japanese, other than shooting motion pictures, of course. I was treated like an emperor from another country, though. I had a huge dressing room that took up half the floor in the administration building, I had drivers, I had handlers. All the wardrobe, including my shoes, were hand-made. There was nothing off the rack at Toho. I’d spend days looking through miles of cloth, and they’d ask me to pick the fabric for my uniform, knowing full well they would pick the fabric. I felt very privileged from that stand point. I couldn’t ask for anything more. There was no pressure at Toho compared to Hollywood. They had the luxury of time.

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