HASHIMA, Gifu Prefecture A special exhibition featuring more than 1,000 comic works by Osamu Tezuka, along with movie posters and related items, is being held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the maestro’s “Mighty Atom” manga series.
HASHIMA, Gifu Prefecture A grandmother’s gift led to Eito Hara’s decades-long fascination with “kaiju” monsters, his renown as a sculptor and alarmed looks from people shocked by his passion for the creatures.
A special exhibition featuring about 10 lifelike sculptures of kaiju and dinosaurs created by Hara from newspapers and other everyday materials are on display at the Hashima Movie Museum here.
Scattered across the venue are heads modeled after a carnivorous allosaurus, monsters from live-action movies, including Gamera and Gyaos, and other paper sculptures.
Hara, 65, who lives in Gifu, was born in Gujo in the prefecture. His obsession with kaiju started after he asked his grandmother to buy him a Godzilla toy when he was a child.