Godzilla Minus One is a tremendous addition to the Toho canon, demonstrating once again that when properly leveraged franchises can be used to tell enthralling and distinct stories. Yes, it has its eponymous kaiju trampling through the city, coming up from the depths, but his tales are more than 40 stories long. Their quality varies, but despite the negative in its title, Minus One is one of the high points.
In late 1944 Koichi Shikishima pilots his Mitsubishi A6M to a badly damaged runway on Odo Island. He has returned after an unsuccessful tokubetsu kōgekitai mission. That's most often translated (and subtitled) as 'kamikaze' but that form doesn't appear in the dialogue. Koichi will return to a Tokyo that's in ruins, flattened by the fiery breath of a different monster, General Curtis LeMay.
Played by Ryunosuke Kamiki, he is often wracked with survivor's guilt, and often bears the burden of others,...
In late 1944 Koichi Shikishima pilots his Mitsubishi A6M to a badly damaged runway on Odo Island. He has returned after an unsuccessful tokubetsu kōgekitai mission. That's most often translated (and subtitled) as 'kamikaze' but that form doesn't appear in the dialogue. Koichi will return to a Tokyo that's in ruins, flattened by the fiery breath of a different monster, General Curtis LeMay.
Played by Ryunosuke Kamiki, he is often wracked with survivor's guilt, and often bears the burden of others,...
- 12/19/2023
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kevin Conway, a veteran actor known for his work in Gettysburg, Thirteen Days and Invincible, among others, died Wednesday of a heart attack, his publicist told Deadline. He was 77.
New York City-born Conway worked as an Ibm sales analyst before becoming an actor at age 24. He went on to a decades-long career with dozens of credits in film, television and on the stage. His first major screen role was playing Roland Weary in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse Five, based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel. He went on to play Crum Petree, the insane mailman in the 1988 film Funny Farm; Frank Papale in the 2006 Disney football drama Invincible; and General Curtis LeMay in the 2000 historical drama Thirteen Days. He also played the fictional Sgt. Buster Kilrain in Ron Maxwell’s 1993 epic Gettysburg (see photo above) and its 2003 follow-up Gods and Generals.
His television work included playing Roger Chillingworth in a 1979 TV production of The Scarlet Letter,...
New York City-born Conway worked as an Ibm sales analyst before becoming an actor at age 24. He went on to a decades-long career with dozens of credits in film, television and on the stage. His first major screen role was playing Roland Weary in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse Five, based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel. He went on to play Crum Petree, the insane mailman in the 1988 film Funny Farm; Frank Papale in the 2006 Disney football drama Invincible; and General Curtis LeMay in the 2000 historical drama Thirteen Days. He also played the fictional Sgt. Buster Kilrain in Ron Maxwell’s 1993 epic Gettysburg (see photo above) and its 2003 follow-up Gods and Generals.
His television work included playing Roger Chillingworth in a 1979 TV production of The Scarlet Letter,...
- 2/7/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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