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Hola , Hermosas Fotografías. Godzilla Es Ya Un Clásico Del Cine Mundial. Un Saludo.

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Wonderful! Great photos and good to know more about the legend.

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Tanjobi omedetou gozaimasu Gojira-san! ;)

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Not a Godzilla maniac either but definitely my favorite, the undisputed King Of The Monsters!!! So he's always on that building? Great pictures!!!

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I want to see Giant Flying MIFUNE Toshiro in full Samurai gear take on Godzilla.

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And at the very end, after much battling in which Japan is laid waste and many Japanese people run around screaming (in a polite, orderly way), MIFUNE leaps over GODZILLA and cleaves him in half with his mighty nodachi. Shift to GODZILLA, frontal view, looking perplexed, then trying to roar flame but just falling in halves, with the blue flame exploding out and destroying the entire area.

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Finally engulfing the camera: static, black screen, credits, The End.

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Cheers to your amazing imagination!

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I'm sure you can do better: Godzilla (Gojira?) is Japanese.

BTW, recently read a book by a Japanese woman about a city ne'er-do-well kid who gets exiled to a remote forestry community... That's where I'd like to be (I live in a mountainous former forestry community)... as long as it had a pottery workshop. A fishing or Miso village would be fine too,,as long as etcetc...

Oh Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's MIFUNE-Man, fighting GODZILLA!

...maybe MIFUNE-Man fights GODZILLA to a standstill, they bow deeply to each other, toast each other with vats of sake, then team up and save the Earth by destroying industrial civilization and huge populations, crowds of Chinese and Indians running screaming from GODZILLA only to by swept away by MIFUNE-Man's giant ōdachi, all large mega-cities and suburbs utterly destroyed!

If MIFUNE is passé in Japan, he could be replaced by generic SUPERSAMURAI.

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There is no clear definition of "who Godzilla is", but as the English spelling "GOD" suggests, in Japan, he is the incarnation of a god. In Japan, there is a word "Tatari-gami". Tatari-gami is a god who is angry at those who have committed foolish acts (such as destroying nature) and punishes them. At the end of "Godzilla Minus One", people salute the torn-up Godzilla, showing their respect for Godzilla. At the moment Mifune slices Godzilla in half, he is probably crying and crying in his heart, "I'm sorry".

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Like I said, and in accord with Tatari-Gami, yet another Japanese concept I very much like (thanks!), Supermifune is sent to fight Godzilla, and they do:

"Dragons fight in the meadow.

Their blood is black and yellow", until a Tatari-Gami appears:

"Flying dragon in the heavens.

It furthers one to see the great man."

and they stop fighting and bow to him/it, then proceed as described above, solving CO² emissions, plastic pollution, all manner of things.

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