K. Watanabe

Oct 8, 2024 | thebaffler.com | K. Watanabe |Ratik Asokan |Grayson Scott

The Baffler and BAM are pleased to present a week-long film series that responds to our fall issue, “Facing the Future,” which examines the use and abuse of the “emerging majority” in political life around the globe.

Feb 20, 2024 | thebaffler.com | K. Watanabe

Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again by Shigeru Kayama, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. University of Minnesota Press, 256 pages. 2023. This year, everyone’s favorite nuclear bomb-born kaiju Godzilla turns seventy. In the lead up to this major anniversary, Toho studios released Godzilla Minus One, its thirtieth film in the franchise, across more than five hundred theaters in Japan in November of last year (November 3, the date of the first film’s release in 1954).