Good heavens.
Ghidorah is coming.*
On Sunday I watched Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (1964) for the first time since I was a wee lad, this time in Japanese with subtitles instead of English dubbing. I’ll need to check the American version to see if the scene or the dialogue were deleted or altered when it was released in the States, but I was very amused by the scene in the coffeehouse. The most expensive coffee in the world is Jamaica Blue Mountain, and almost all of it is exported to Japan. So what do you suppose the plainclothes police officer orders? Blue Mountain. What does his sister the television journalist order? Blue Mountain. When the scientist that brother thinks sister is dating arrives, what does he order? Blue Mountain. And it’s no joke of the translators, either, because the Japanese call Blue Mountain coffee — wait for it — “Blue Mountain.”
Someday I need to try it. Perhaps I will discover it is the only coffee grown in the Western Hemisphere I can tolerate. Or perhaps not.
Ghidorah sports some of the most amusing daikaiju combat scenes ever filmed, too… with monster dialogue!
*Some of the amusing subtitles from Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster.
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