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, sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as " Inoshiro Honda ", was a ___MASK57___ film director . He is best known for his " kaiju " and " tokusatsu " films , including several entries in the " Godzilla " series , but also worked extensively in the documentary and war genres earlier in his career . Honda was also a lifelong friend and collaborator of Akira Kurosawa , and worked with Kurosawa extensively during the 1980s and 1990s . Nichiren Buddhism is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th century ___MASK57___ priest Nichiren ( 1222  1282 ) and belongs to the schools of so - called " Kamakura Buddhism ". Nichiren Buddhism is a comprehensive term covering several major schools and many sub - schools , as well as several of Japan ' s new religions . Its many denominations have in common a focus on the chanting and recital of the Lotus Sutra , believed by adherents to imbue auspicious and extraordinary power . Kurosawa entered the ___MASK57___ film industry in 1936 , following a brief stint as a painter . After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter , he made his debut as a director in 1943 , during World War II , with the popular action film " Sanshiro Sugata " ( a . k . a . " Judo Saga "). After the war , the critically acclaimed " Drunken Angel " ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then - unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role , cemented the director ' s reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan . The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films . His wife Yko Yaguchi was also an actress in one of his films . Early life . Tsuburaya described his childhood as filled with " mixed emotions ." He was the first son of Isamu and Sei Tsumuraya , with a large extended family . His mother died when he was only three and his father moved to China for the family business . Young Eiji was raised by his barely older uncle , Ichiro , and his paternal grandmother , Natsu . He attended elementary school at the " Sukagawa Choritsu Dai ' ichi Jinjo Koutou Shogakko " beginning in 1908 , and two years later , he took up the hobby of building model airplanes , due to the sensational success of ___MASK57___ aviators , an interest he would retain for the rest of his life . In 1915 , at the age of 14 , he graduated the equivalent of High School , and begged his family to let him enroll in the Nippon Flying school at Haneda . After the school was closed on account of the accidental death of its founder , Seitaro Tamai , in 1917 , Tsuburaya attended trade school . He became quite successful in the research and development department of the Utsumi toy company , but a chance meeting at a company party in 1919 , set the course for his destiny  he was offered a job by director Yoshiro Edamasa , a job that would train him to be a motion picture cameraman . While the Tsuburaya family ' s traditional religion was Nichiren Buddhism , Tsuburaya converted to Roman Catholicism in his later years ( his wife had already been a practicing Roman Catholic ). The Human Vapor , known in Japan as Gas Human No . 1 (  Gasu Ningen dai Ichi - g ) , is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1960 . The film was made by Toho ' s legendary Godzilla directing / special effects / producing team of Ishir Honda , Eiji Tsuburaya , and Tomoyuki Tanaka . The film was recut by Brenco Pictures in 1964 , changing the format from that of a mystery to a narrative being told largely in flashback from Mizuno ' s point of view . Even though this version is dubbed , Tsuchiya has stated that he prefers this cut of the film , which he considers to feature his finest performance . A sequel to this film was planned called Frankenstein vs . the Human Vapor in which the Human Vapor survives the climax and goes to find a doctor who brought Frankenstein ' s monster to back to life , in hopes of finding a way to bring back his girlfriend who did n ' t survive the climax leading to a battle between the two . This was dropped in favor of Frankenstein Conquers the World ( the 1957 film Tomei - Ningen To Hae - Otoko or Invisible Man vs . Fly Man is available in North America under the title Vapor Man Meets the Human Fly , but it is not related ) . " Tokusatsu " entertainment often deals with science fiction , fantasy or horror , but movies and television shows in other genres can sometimes count as " tokusatsu " as well . The most popular types of " tokusatsu " include " kaiju " monster movies like the " Godzilla " and " Gamera " film series ; superhero TV serials such as the " Kamen Rider " and " Metal Hero "; and mecha series like " Giant Robo ". Some " tokusatsu " television programs combine several of these subgenres , for example the " Ultraman " and " Super Sentai " series . M . E . Ch . A . ( ___MASK79___ : Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán ; " Chicanx Student Movement of Aztlán ", the x being a gender neutral inflection ) is an organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action . The acronym of the organization ' s name is the Chicano word " mecha ", which is the Chicano pronunciation of the ___MASK63___ word , " match " and therefore symbolic of a fire or spark ; " mecha " in ___MASK79___ means fuse or wick . The motto of MEChA is ' La Union Hace La Fuerza With the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the " Lucky Dragon 5 " incident still fresh in the ___MASK57___ consciousness , Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear weapons . As the film series expanded , some stories took on less serious undertones portraying Godzilla as an antihero while other plots still portrayed Godzilla as a destructive monster ; sometimes the lesser of two threats who plays the defender by default but is still a danger to humanity . With the end of the Cold War , several post - 1984 Godzilla films shifted the character ' s portrayal as a symbol of nuclear weapons to that of modern Japan ' s forgetfulness over its imperial past , natural disasters and the overall human condition . A metaphor is a figure of speech that refers , for rhetorical effect , to one thing by mentioning another thing . It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas . Where a simile compares two items , a metaphor directly equates them , and does not use " like " or " as " as does a simile . One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in ___MASK63___ literature is the " All the world ' s a stage " monologue from " As You Like It ": Japan (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of Japan ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , ___MASK30___ ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . The is the name given to the long - running ___MASK57___ superhero team franchise of TV series produced by Toei Co ., Ltd ., Toei Agency and Bandai , and aired by TV Asahi ("" Sentai "" is the ___MASK57___ word for " task force " or " fighting squadron "). The shows are of the tokusatsu genre , featuring live action characters and colorful special effects , and are aimed at children . The Super Sentai Series is one of the most prominent tokusatsu franchises in Japan , alongside the Ultra Series and the Kamen Rider Series , which it currently airs alongside in the " Super Hero Time " programming block on Sundays . Outside Japan , the Super Sentai Series is best known as the source material for the " Power Rangers " franchise . Utsumi (  ) is a ___MASK57___ family name . Notable people with the surname include :