Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #86: Anime on Disney+, Godzilla Director Goes Hollywood, the 1990s War on Video Games!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) wrap their heads around some recent news headlines shaking the walls of Japanese pop culture, including anime on Disney+. the release of Oppenheimer in Japan, Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki, and a look back at the crusade against Japanese video games in the 1990s!
SHOW NOTES!
Macross Finally Lands Streaming Home at Disney+
‘The Lying King’ T-shirt, US 1990s
Macross: Do You Remember Love? Movie Preview
Macross original English opening theme song 1984
‘Oppenheimer’ finally opens in Japan, the only nation to experience horror of nuclear war
‘Godzilla Minus One’ Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki Signs With CAA
Takashi Yamazaki Visits Lucasfilm, Meets Star Wars Guy Dave Filoni, January 2023
Joe Lieberman, Longtime Senator and Anti-Video Game Crusader, Dies at 82 (article by Matt Alt)
Night Trap, Japanese Release for the Sega Mega-CD (1993)
Lethal Enforcers Trailer, 1994
2 Live Crew on Donahue (1990)
Jetter Mars, 1977
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for over a year now.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been:
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