JAPAN: Biography explores the man behind Godzilla

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Updated December 21, 2007 19:38:52

Back in the 1950s in Japan, a 150-foot tall lizard came out of the ocean and set about destroying Tokyo. It was Godzilla, an irradiated mutant monster that came via the imagination and movie magic of special effects legend Eiji Tsuburaya.

Presenter: Adam Connors
Speakers: August Ragone, author of the Eiji Tsuburaya biography Master of Monsters

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