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A young woman appears alone on stage. She speaks:
It was like I was all wrapped up in the faint scent of camellias. He said nothing, just looked deep into my eyes, as gentle as a spring day that goes on forever….
I’m just an ordinary girl. All I want is to sit in some trendy café over a cup of coffee, nattering on about myself and trying to impress him; or squeeze his hand, pretending to be afraid at some boring horror flick; or cuddle up on a sandy beach at night and, swept away by the sweet waves and the salty breeze, give myself up to his mad kisses. I know it’s banal, but still, I want dates like that. But I can’t. Why, you ask? Because, well, after all, he’s… Godzilla….
He was such a late bloomer and our dates were always so platonic. But then one day—we’d been talking about family, where we grew up, whatever was on our minds, and then there was a lull in the conversation—he stuck his palm out, urged me to climb up, and brought me right up to his mouth…. It was our first kiss. It had a radioactive taste.1
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Martin Morrow, “Godzilla vs. the Parents,” Pfwd Weekly 9:21 (April 29, 2004), n.p.
Benito Ortolani, The Japanese Theatre: From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Plurality, rev. ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995 ), p. 14.
William M. Tsutsui, Godzilla on My Mind ( New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 ), pp. 19–20.
See John K. Gillespie, “Ohashi Yasuhiko” in Encyclopedia of Modern Drama ed. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn (Danbury, CT: Grolier, forthcoming).
Uchino Tadashi, “Images of Armageddon: Japan’s 1980’s Theatre Culture,” The Drama Rcrien’ 44: 1 (2000), p. 88.
Robert Cushman, “Godzilla versus Mother-in-Law Falls Flat as Cultish Camp,” National Post September 23, 2002, p. AL4.
Bob Clark, “Discovering the Kinder, Gentler Side of Godzilla,” Calgary Herald May 7, 2004, p. D9.
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Wetmore, K.J. (2006). “Our First Kiss Had a Radioactive Taste”: Ohashi Yasuhiko’s Gojira in Japan and Canada. In: Tsutsui, W.M., Ito, M. (eds) In Godzilla’s® Footsteps. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403984401_10
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