A Movie Monster "GODZILLA" Appeared in Shinjuku, Tokyo

These photos are taken at Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Kabuki-cho is a very busy area filled by lots of restaurants, pubs, and amusement spots, and actually the area has been a notorious block for malicious pubs and shops which charge people exorbitant price.

However the administration is trying to clean up the area and many redevelopment projects has been on-going.  Especially this year, 2015, a new business complex with a movie theater and a hotel was built in Kabuki-cho and an actual-size GODZILLA's head on top of it. 
Apparently the GODZILLA's head can make GODZILLA sound, moreover the mouth can breath out smoke.  It is a kind of show provided by the hotel in the building complex. 

GODZILLA was originally a Japanese movie monster, but now he is well-known internationally since two GODZILLA movies were made in U.S.A. ( GODZILLA in 1998, and GODZILLA in 2014). Actually the history of GODZILLA movies is pretty long. It's been more than 60 years and over 30 GODZILLA movies were created including the two American movies. 

For the past 60 years, computer graphics technology has been improved a lot and the image of recent GODZILLA movies looks very real. Yet I would personally recommend the very first GODZILLA in 1954 as the best GODZILLA movie. It was made about 10 years after the end of World War Ⅱ, so the fear of weapons of mass destruction and radioactivity feels real in the movie though the image was not high quality.

In the first movie GODZILLA was a tragic monster mutated by radioactive pollution. Since the first movie he was loved by people and the movie company kept making GODZILLA movies. As a consequence, he became a monster whom Japanese feel very friendly and are familiar with. Now, he became a new landmark in Shinjuku. Perhaps, this can be considered as a happy ending for GODZILLA.