Nakajima tries on the Godzilla suit one last time

[mediacritic]

Where was YouTube when I was a kid. This stuff is great. I looooved Godzilla when I was a kid (along with just about every other kid in the world). Thanks for the upload.

[Mrnasty37]

i would love to wear that just once

[TwinsanityUniverse]

This 1979Goji or I preparing to even call it NakaGoji or LateGoji or even DiscoGoji, is close to looking like 84Goji.

[nobodysperfect06]

I'd like to see Godzilla vs. Dragon Caeser

[nirtonful]

godzilla looks terrible

[YTMike2010]

I will Wish Japan will sell the Replica to America.

[patzilla2000]

Quality post! 5/5

[undergroundamericana]

thats fucking awesome

[davidgalindo07]

godzilla suit from biollante the best suit ever

[AK107DX]

I hate how they made Godzilla goofy looking to appeal to kids. in my opinion the 1964 suit was the last good showa suit (The 1965 one was somewhat decent though).

[SandSReviews]

i will sincerely miss Nakajima....HE HAD BALLS TO GO OUT IN THAT HEAVY ASS COSTUME

[memphiselle]

@SandSReviews You don't necessarily have to miss a man who's still alive, but he was brave to put on that suit...

[G11354]

Pure gold!

[soisyourface1234]

well huh i thought u would hav the decentcy to add the theme song

[theguyonthepenny64]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT THE JESUS CHRIST BANNANAS HAPPENED TO GODZILLA!?!?!?!?!

[GodzillaXAbudAwwal]

i love when nakajima holds the kingoji model

[Joebobzilla]

Is this the Fake Godzilla suit from the Mechagodzilla movies? 

[GhostVenom051]

He was the best godzilla actor EVER

[Hitogoji]

Hm, the dorsal plates could have used some work here. They started too far up on the head.

[tkungfool]

youtube needs the star rating system back so I can give this 5 stars.  Just awesome.

[66Metallicaman66]

What is this? Thriller?!

:D

[UFWD2000]

isnt that fake godzilla from godzilla vs mecha godzilla

[guns979]

wher did it come from???????

[TheXenomorph1]

Nakajima is an AWESOME Godzilla actor. One of the best! :D

[TheCGIMaster]

that suit looks exactly like it! sept i thought godzilla had four toes

[crabbypants1978]

@TheCGIMaster If you look up the history you'll notice the toe count changed from time to time. Also, the facial structure changed many times.

[nocturned85]

@TheCGIMaster probably because the more films they made during the 60's and 70's they had to cut some costs on making suits so basically one toe went and figured no one would really know the difference

[minillagodzilla2004]

yeah it is the godzilla suit from 1974's godzilla vs mechagodzilla nut it's actually the fake godzilla's suit i know all of the faces

[codyhimes]

@minillagodzilla2004 Pause at 1:06 and compare it to the picture of Fake Godzilla on the Godzilla wiki. You'll see that the faces are similar, but are NOT the same. As August138 and I already said, the suit was made in 1979 as a promotional suit for the 25th anniversary of Godzilla. This suit was never used in any movies.

[spicnspanish]

Thanks for uploading this cinematic gem!

[ACLTony]

Thank you to Mr. Nakajima!  From my understanding he is still around and in his 90s. I would enjoy meeting him in person.

[dioricees]

I just recently got Haruo's autograph, so this is a really cool video for me to see. Thanks for posting it!

[codyhimes]

Toho continued making promotional Godzilla suits for events, even after they stopped making Godzilla movies for 9 years in the 70s/80s. This is just one of those suits. It's in too good condition to be the suit used in the water scenes/fake MG scenes from 74-75.

[thekillerklown13]

godzilla is my hero i freakin love his movies but it makes u feel bad to see the stunt man come out of godzilla and u notice he is just a rubber suit

[PolzerProduction]

You people think this is the godzilla vs mechagodzilla suit, no I think it looks like the godzilla suit from Godzilla vs Megalon, the suit used for the swimming scenes.

[Drforrester31]

While I do agree with you that this isn't the Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla suit, I don't think it's the one used to show Godzilla in the ocean either (though that was the same suit used when Godzilla was fighting the disguised Mechagodzilla in the industrial park). The head's overall shape is too bulky, and the eyes looks a lot bigger, which leads me to believe this was just one of the suits made exclusively for publicity events

[234ULTRA]

to bad nakajimas to old for Godzilla now

[slugskater]

This suit was used as the fake Godzilla in Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, and for the final water scene in Terror of Mechagodzilla.

[Joebobzilla]

Is that the fake godzilla suit from ToMG?

[KaijuSlasher13]

ah this makes me all warm inside.

I got his autograph 1 of my godzilla toys at G-fest 2008

[ultragoji1]

That was just straight up cool to see Nakajima portraying the Big G once again. The suit is definitely not from any of the G films of the Showa period... though it looks like a cross between Soshingoji suit and the Megarogoji suit. My guess it had something to do with promoting the magazine he was holding... though I find it bizarre he was holding a G figure. Still, he was in his 50's portraying the Big G in this clip. For such a little man, you got to give him credit that he could still do it.

[EclipseTheDarkOne]

Ohh damn! Its like getting to know Santa isnt real. Now we know Godzilla is played by a japanese man :O!

[zekend01]

Breaks your heart.

[yaburu]

I can't quite tell, is that suit from Terror of Mechagodzilla, or is that the Fake Godzilla suit used in Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla?

But any rate, yeah, you gotta give Nakajima credit. Even the lightest of those suits were pretty heavy, and he was no spring chicken at that point. Guy's tougher then a $2 steak.

[GojiGuru]

I'm doubting that was even a real suit from the films; the tail is much shorter and the overall build of the body is fair too slim--it may have been made just for the photo shoot. I could be wrong. But it is the design from the first half of GvsMG when Mechagodzilla pretended to be Gojira before the Goji appeared. I met Mr. Nakajima last year--he is a very friendly, energitc old man. He said he'd still play Godzilla if he had the strength. :) Nice to see him in action!

[zeakthehedgehog]

I laughed a little bit when he was holding that Godzilla action figure

*GASP* Godzilla molted (joke)

This kind of makes me wonder what it would look like if they where filming a Godzilla movie and one of the stage crew members got on the set by mistake

[DrKaiju2000]

I wonder why he did not do Godzilla 1985

[killerNC17]

hauro nakijima putting on the suit. wow! sux that ishiro honda died and tomo tomuki

[angrymexican420]

cool!

[Starcraft3000]

cool a rare behind the scene very nice and cool and Godzilla is cool

[rockstarbd82]

always nice to see rare behind the scenes footage of the showa suits

[g2kmaster]

Nice Clip!

[Gojira73rules]

Cool! I actually met the man...

[Jamo28hhh]

Isn't that the x-tra suit that was made for "Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster" -- the one that was Mechagodzilla in disguise in the beginning of the movie? (And also used at the very end of "Terror of Mechagodzilla" as he heads off to sea?

I read that they kept that for promos and such.

This clip is cool to watch...

[August138]

No, it's not from any film; as I posted, it is an attraction (publicity) suit created for Toho's 25th Godzilla Anniversary in 1979.

August Ragone

Author EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS

[Timothy2035]

Haha this is really nice! A piece of history. Long Live Godzilla! (and Mothra too! :)

[August138]

Thanks for posting this rare clip -- I have never seen this before, but his is not from 1973. This is from 1983, and is 8mm footage taken by the staff of "Uchusen" magazine while shooting photographs for one of their installments on suit actors by Hurricane Ryu.

In one shot, Nakajima (in the Godzilla suit) is holding issue #15 of "Uchusen" which was the summer issue when the magazine was a quarterly, which was published in 1983.

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[August138]

IThe man in the blue shirt and sunglasses is the founding editor, Saki Hijiri, and the woman in the white shirt is Hijiri's wife, Jun Amemiya. The Godzilla is one of Toho's attraction suits from the 25th Anniversary celebrations in 1979.

I hope that I have solved the mysteries of this film for you, and thanks for posting this rare, rare film of Mr. Nakajima returning as Godzilla one last time in 1983!

August Ragone

Author EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS

Blog THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND GODZILLA

[JetJagga]

I'm glad you liked it, I found it on Toho's region 2 Ghidrah dvd. I swear I heard somewhere that it was the 1973-75 suit and that the actual clip was from '73. I'll change the description and title accordingly.

It's great to here from the author of the Tsuburaya book. What a great tribute to one of the most underrated names in cinema.

[August138]

Cool! That's one of the R2s I don't have (I have Toho Video's Laserdisc, but didn't pick up the DVD). I also know the people in the film, Saki and his wife (I would take them around San Francisco every year when they would visit), but the clincher is the issue #15 of "Uchusen", which was published in '83.

Thanks for the kind comments about my book, I really appreciate it. Stay tuned for news about a Tsuburaya event in SF later this year, with a special guest from Japan!

Cheers,

August

[g2kmaster]

This has me excited...

[Mrtrainfreak12]

@JetJagga No,its 1983,because the biggest indicator is that nakajima-san held in one shot the very first 8-inch bandai godzilla action figure from 1983 thus indicating that the footage from 1983 so the source that you mentioned that it was '73 is innacurate just to let you know

[theCreature22]

That's really cool!