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b'Hello, kaiju lovers!\\nExcept today\\u2019s episode isn\\u2019t about giant monsters. Heck, it\\u2019s barely about tokusatsu. Nathan is analyzing the criminally underseen 1961 antiwar drama\\xa0The Last War. While most of the creative team behind the camera aren\\u2019t the ones usually followed by kaiju/toku fans, there are several familiar faces in front of the camera: Frankie Sakai (Mothra), Yuriko Hoshi (Mothra vs. Godzilla, etc.), and Akira Takarada (too many to list). This film depicts a middle class Japanese family navigating everyday life interspersed with Japanese government officials and foreign soldiers trying to avoid World War III. It is a perfect snapshot of the Japanese national spirit at that moment in time and, Nathan argues, is the precursor to 1984\\u2019s\\xa0The Return of Godzilla. As part of his analysis, Nathan reads the Bible passage quoted in the film (plus the following two verses that would\\u2019ve offered some hope) and a\\xa0John Bradley\\xa0poem that would\\u2019ve been perfect for the end of the film.\\nAll this plus Nathan opens the mailbag to answer some listener feedback!\\nThis is meant to supplement this episode of Kaijuvision Radio, which featured the fantastic\\xa0Danny DiManna:\\xa0Episode 43: The Last War (1961) (NATO) (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization).\\nI\\u2019d like to give a shout-out to our Patreon patrons Travis Alexander (host of\\xa0Kaiju Weekly), Danny DiManna, and\\xa0elizilla13! Thanks for your support!\\nRead\\xa0Jimmy\\u2019s Notes\\xa0on this episode.\\nPlease donate to David Marshall and his family on\\xa0GoFundMe.\\nPodcast Social Media:TwitterFacebookInstagramPatreon\\nFollow Jimmy on Twitter:\\xa0@NasaJimmy\\n#JimmyFromNASALives\\n\\xa9 2020 Nathan Marchand & Moonlighting Ninjas Media\\nBibliography/Further Reading:\\n\\u201cExplaining Japanese Antimilitarism: Normative and Realist Constraints on Japan\\u2019s Security Policy\\u201d by Yasuhiro Izumikawa\\xa0(International Security, Vol. 35, No. 2 (FALL 2010), pp. 123-160)\\n\\u201cThe Last War\\u201d (Wikizilla)\\n\\u201cLittle Prayer on Hiroshima Day\\u201d (from\\xa0Erotica Atomica\\xa0by John Bradley)\\n\\u201cLong live pacifism! Narrative power and Japan\\u2019s pacifist model\\u201d by Karl Gustafsson, Linus Hagstr\\xf6m & Ulv Hanssen\\xa0(Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32:4, 502-520)\\n\\u201cA Pacifist Japan Starts to Embrace the Military\\u201d by Motoko Rich (The New York Times)\\nTerror of the Lost Tokusatsu Films!: From the Files of the Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies\\xa0by John Lemay\\n\\u201cThree Non-Nuclear Principles\\u201d (Wikipedia)\\n\\u201cYoshida Doctrine\\u201d (Wikipedia)\\nThe post Episode 17: \\u2018The Last War\\u2019 (Mini-Analysis) appeared first on The Monster Island Film Vault.'