August Ragone has written and commented on Japanese film and pop culture for more than twenty years.
"[A] loving, well-researched tribute to the greatest of all
Japanese Monster Makers!!"
-Guillermo del Toro
Director of Pacific Rim and Pan's Labyrinth
"A gorgeous book filled with fantastic photos and information about
the father of tokusatsu."
-Kaijucast
"Eiji Tsuburaya was a very reserved man on the set. Most of the
direction he gave me for the performances was, 'I trust you to do
it. Do what you feel is best, I'll leave it up to you.' And that's
the way he was for most of the films we worked on together after
Godzilla. After the wires broke on the Rodan suit, causing me to
fall several meters onto the miniature set, he chided, 'It's good
that you didn't die; because I need you to finish the film.' And I
replied, 'That's easy for you to say; I'm the one inside the
costume.' But, these things would sometimes happen. It's been
forty-three years since Tsuburaya has left us, but what a happy
feeling to have a book published about him after all this time. And
that it came not from Japan, but from the U.S.! I'm sure the Old
Man would be as happy as I am. August did a wonderful job. Thanks
to all for not forgetting him."
-Haruo Nakajima
original Godzilla suit actor (1954-1972) and the Man of a Thousand
Monsters
"When I moved to America to start filming Godzilla, this was one of
the few books I brought with me. Eiji is a true inspiration, and a
one of a kind innovator of special effects, the likes of which
we'll probably never see again in cinema."
-Gareth Edwards, director of Monsters and Godzilla (2014).
'Anyone with a taste for reading about frantic production schedules
and creative jury-rigging solutions will find much to enjoy in
Ragone's text.'
-Powell's Books.com, November 2007
'In Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters, San Francisco based writer
August Ragone has produced a fond, generously illustrated biography
of the tokusatsu (special effects) genius '
-Time Magazine, December 13, 2007
'The difference between this book and other coffee table volumes
that have covered daikaiju before, though, is the staggeringly
researched detail that Ragone has put into the text itself. This is
not just a picture book to flip through, nod approvingly at and
stick on the shelf; this is a record easily in scale with the
monsters Tsuburaya created a critical and historical look at the
creation and output of an industry that spanned (and has continued
to span) the decades.
-Tooth and Dagger, October 2007
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