The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: Showa Completion (1954-1989)From the 1950s onwards, far eastern filmmakers from Japan, China, and Korea but mostly Japan cranked out a bevy of dai kaiju ("giant strange beast") movies. This guidebook covers not only all the Godzilla and Gamera movies produced during Japan's Showa Era (1954 1989), but also offshoots like Yongary, Monster From the Deep (1967), Agon, the Atomic Dragon (1968), Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972), Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977), and more Also