Podcasts Kaijucast

Last year, at the annual Godzilla convention in Chicago, G-Fest XXI, John DeSentis and Chris Oglio put on an incredible concert of Akira Ifukube’s music from the Godzilla series. As someone who was there, I can attest to how moving and stirring it was to see kaiju music performed live in front of an audience. […]

For this episode, I was joined by Bryan, Rachel and Dave and we are talking about the 1970 Daiei film, Gamera vs. Jiger. All in all, we kind of liked this film that almost seemed to have every aspect of the Showa Gamera series… except aliens. There were none to be found (outside the stock footage). Big thanks […]

This episode features an interview with Josh Finney, Patrick McEvoy and Kat Rocha. The team behind World War Kaiju, a fantastic independently produced graphic novel that was successfully funded through Kickstarter last year. The book is a revisionist historical tale that explores what would have happened in World War II if the US hadn’t dropped an H-bomb […]

This month, we turn our gaze to the future! Or the futurians, to be a bit more precise? The focus of this month’s Daikaiju Discussion is the 1991 special effects extravaganza from Toho Studios, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. It was a full house here in Kaijucast HQ; Kyle was joined by Martin, Jeff, Cindy, Bryan and Rachel. […]

Check it out, our first bonus episode of 2015 and we are talking with comic book creator Zander Cannon about his upcoming six issue mini-series from Oni Press called Kaijumax. Kaijumax is a prison drama set on a Monsterland-like island and it explores the kaiju who are incarcerated there and what happens in the prison. Zander […]

It’s time for some traveling! Step into our TARDIS and zip back to the year 2013 where we covered the Kaiju of Pacific Rim in a panel at Portland’s own Rose City Comic Con. We had a nearly full house for this panel – and to be honest, we couldn’t believe the amount of convention […]

This month’s discussion film is Tsuburaya Production’s 2004 cinematic reboot attempt of Ultraman, known in English as Ultraman The Next. Big thanks to everyone who sent in their homework for this apparently difficult to track down film. I was joined in the studio by regulars Martin, Bryan and Rachel, but we did have another voice from […]

If you missed our annual live episode on Sunday, here it is! The fourth annual Emergency Broadcast went very well and was a ton of fun to host. In addition to Kaijucast regulars Jeff, Bryan and Rachel, we invited friend, monster enthusiast and fellow podcaster Derek M. Koch to be a part of the program. […]

I am working against a literal countdown clock here since the month is over on the East Coast – actually, it’s already 2015 over there! So all I’m going to say here is that I had an absolute blast talking about Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995). Big thanks to everyone who sent in their […]

This week has been a big one for Godzilla fans. Toho’s new Godzilla plans for a new film, the Godzilla head on top of the Shinjuku Hotel Gracery, the Guiness Book of World Records announcement and Bandai Namco’s plans for a domestic release of their Japanese Godzilla game for the Playstation 3 (and PS4). In the last […]

Big news straight from Japan’s Toho Co. Ltd. this week, folks! I’m sure many of you have heard the news about Toho’s announcement this past weekend about their plans for a new Godzilla movie. And that’s not all, Godzilla will be making an appearance on the rooftop of a Shinjuku hotel. Still want something cool, […]

The movie that’s on this month’s chopping block is 1969’s Godzilla’s Revenge (aka All Monsters Attack). For decades, this film has been somewhat hated by Godzilla fans due to several factors: it’s the first film in the series to prominently feature a child actor, it’s English dub features some intensely grating voice acting and it has […]

It is my pleasure to bring you an interview with Koichi Kawakita, the special effects director for most of Godzilla’s “Heisei” era. It has been a goal since I started the podcast to interview Kawakita-san and when he was announced as a guest for G-Fest XXI, I made it my objective to spend some time with him […]

That creepy season is upon us, and a creepy monster from outer space dips its tentacles into our atmosphere to cause chaos and destruction. This month, our discussion focuses on Dogora The Space Monster (1964). This is a lesser known kaiju film about a gigantic space jellyfish that comes down to steal our carbon (how […]

Hey, we still have a few minutes or so left in September; I can do this before October hits (…in Hawaii)! This month, we dive into the second movie of Toho’s “Millennium” series, Godzilla X Megaguirus (2000). As I mention in the discussion, this is the directorial debut of Masaaki Tezuka – a director who I think was honing his craft […]

Better late than never, Bryan and Rachel came over to help me out with this episode and recap my recent trip to Japan to film my documentary, Hail To The King: 60 Years Of Destruction! I honestly thought that I would have had an episode devoted to this much earlier, but apparently free time is my true master. […]

Initially, I was planning on the first episode of the month being a semi-detailed recap of the documentary filming and recent visit to the land of the rising sun, but there were some serious scheduling conflicts and I had to head east to help my friend and constant podcast voice, Martin, get hitched to his […]

This month, we are tackling my favorite kaiju film and what I consider to be a high point of the entire Godzilla series, Kaiju Daisenso aka Invasion of Astro Monster aka Monster Zero aka Godzilla vs. Monster Zero! And for those of you listeners that love a long episode, this one’s for you. Actually, I’m pretty impressed […]

If you’ve ever heard Whovians ask each other “Who is your doctor?”, you might understand why Kenpachiro Satsuma is my Godzilla. Godzilla 1985 was the first Godzilla film I saw and it was while I was living in Japan with my family. I remember recording it from the English channel and watching it over and […]

IT’S A MEDIA BLITZ! During our KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN, we are releasing episodes WEEKLY to keep the momentum going for our crowdfunded documentary about the King of the Monsters! Please visit the kickstarter page, check out the rewards and back this passion project! This month, the Kaijucast dives into the third film in the Gamera franchise, Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967). This was […]