Podcasts Kaijucast

Y-y-y-y-y-y-yokai! We’ve returned (from the grave/shrine) to bring you another spooky cinema classic. Well, maybe this one isn’t considered to be a classic, but it’s an amazing film nonetheless!  This month, we are looking at Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War (2005). This is a film with a scope so large, perhaps Miike could have […]

Semi-Breaking news, Kaiju fiends! We’ve got a crazy stockpile of monstrous news and we’ve been sitting on it for waaaaaaay too long! Jeff and I cover the following items in this episode for your edu-tainment: SUGGESTED VIEWING: Legendary Announces Godzilla vs. King Kong for 2020 Gamera Proof-of-concept Trailer premieres at NYCC Toho’s new Godzilla film, Shin Godzilla […]

It’s been much, much too long since our last yokai spooktacular, so I decided that all month long, well be diving into the well of souls and shining an eerie ghoulish light on the ghosts and goblins from the land of the rising sun. And who better to kick this off than renowned author and […]

This month, we are finally talking about one of my favorite films ever: the polarizing 2001 Shusuke Kaneko joint, Godzilla · Mothra· King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack! This movie is consistently at the top of my kaiju lists, but it’s not perfect. Bryan and Rachel Cook joined me for this discussion and we received quite a few […]

Rose City Comic Con is tomorrow and I don’t have time for a show notes extravaganza, so please enjoy this almost bonus episode! Keith Foster of Big Pimp Jones/Kodoja joins Bryan, Rachel, Martin and Kyle for another Yak Attack chat about stuff and things and conventions. Come see our booth and panels and come out to […]

A long time ago I came up with an idea for the Kaijucast and it’s now seeing the light of day! I hope you enjoy this new installment and demand more like it in the future. This episode entirely focuses on the life and work of one particular person from the giant monster landscape. I […]

The sequel no one asked for! This month’s Daikaiju Discussion film is the 2008 Monster X Strikes Back / Attack the G8 Summit and it’s another bizarre entry in the genre. This is a film that showed up with very little fanfare or backstory. Directed by Minoru Kawasaki, this film could be a loving tribute […]

Hey there, welcome to the Kaijucast HQ! What? Oh, nothing – we’re all just hanging out and having a few beers and talking about whatever the hell we want… MONSTERS… and life …and stuff and things. It’s all very conversational, I assure you. Some of the nonsense about to bombard your ears: Jeff and I […]

In this episode, we welcome back tokusatsu historian and author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters, August Ragone. I actually recorded this chat with August back in May but with “all of the things” I haven’t had the time to edit the interview… until now that is. Attention, Kaiju Corps! If you were fascinated by the interview with Brad Warner about […]

It’s an all news episode! I knew that the Pulgasari Daikaiju Discussion was going to run really long if we were to tack the news onto it, so we split the episode in two. I think it makes more sense to do this but I’m a weirdo sometimes. Please let me know if this is […]

We’ve tackled some Korean kaiju before but those were all from South Korea. This month, we look at North Korea’s only known attempt at creating a massive monster, Pulgasari (1985). Somewhat surprisingly, Kyle was the only one in this episode to have seen Pulgasari before this recording – so it was doubly cool to see Martin, Bryan […]

Last week, I had an amazing time at G-Fest XXII. It was an insanely packed weekend where I kind of over- extended myself, but regardless, I had a great convention! One of the panels that I moderated was with comic book artists Matt Frank and Jeff Zornow called Remembering Rulers of Earth. We covered topics like […]

Ohayo gozaimasu, listeners! Just checking in with a bonus episode to get the Corps excited for the convention this weekend. Consider this a brief introduction to some of the amazing things happening at the annual Godzilla and kaiju focused extravaganza… G-Fest! I’m going to be taking part in a lot of the programming this year, so I those who […]

This month, we dive into a mockumentary as part of the kaiju genre. Made by Japan’s top comedian, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Big Man Japan (2007) is actually pretty great – in its own right, though, because it’s such a significant and drastic departure from any narrative kaiju fans had previously seen in the genre. Thankfully, I was joined […]

We’re back with another hangout, conversational, yet-to-be-named-as-0f-this-recording, explicit episode because I’m so damn slammed with all of the things! That said, the episode that was originally slated for this sequential number designation (#143) will be released shortly… when the controller comes back up for air, of course. Seriously though, you demanded it so this is what you get […]

Apologies for the short post, but things are crazy busy here at the Kaijucast HQ – what with the impending premiere of the documentary at G-Fest, and all of the other stuff I have going on. To illustrate this point, we actually recorded this last weekend and I haven’t had a chance to edit the […]

This interview was recorded with Brad Warner in his apartment while I was in the LA area for Monsterpalooza. I’d been wanting to have Brad on the podcast for a few years now because not only is he a kaiju fan, he actually worked at the company responsible for Ultraman and the countless spin-offs (and much, […]

There are two reasons why this is an explicit episode. The first is that Dave (who always loves being on the podcast) missed out on our last filter-less episode. The second is that our movie for this month…well, it just isn’t aimed at kids. I explain this a little bit at the beginning of the […]

If you’ve been wondering just when the heck we were going to be talking about the big announcements about Toho’s impending Godzilla film and the other cool news coming out of Japan as of late, this one’s for you! On March 31st, Toho announced the writer and directors of the upcoming Godzilla film. Hideaki Anno […]

Holy crumbcakes, we made an explicit episode! Yeah, so let’s get that out of the way now. Not like we spend the entire episode swearing like crazed sailors, but we removed our “family friendly” filter for this episode and just talked about stuff like Monsterpalooza, collecting toys and Godzilla stuff, zombie movies, going to Japan, Kaijucast […]