Godzilla returned home on Thursday to celebrate his 60th anniversary. A 14 X 17 meter-tall Godzilla mural was unveiled on the wall of Toho Studios in Tokyo. It took Japanese artist Masao Hanawa 3 months to complete the monster-sized project. Hanawa did a similar mural at Toho Studios for Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
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The mural was unveiled by Gareth Edwards, director of Godzilla (2014), and Akira Takarada, star of the original Godzilla (1954), which has been digitally remastered for a nationwide screening starting Saturday.
“I’m honored,” Edwards said. “It’s just a phenomenal piece of work.”
Takarada made a cameo in the American Godzilla but the scene was deleted and will presumably be a Blu-ray and DVD extra.
