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In this Monday, April 28, 2014 photo, a visitor looks at art work by Yuji Kaida of Godzilla, at Cheepa's Cafe gallery in Tokyo. Will the Hollywood Godzilla be a tribute or an embarrassment for Japan’s monstrous legacy? That’s the big question on the minds of fans here ahead of the film’s May 16 opening. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Monday, April 28, 2014 photo, original Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima, who has played his role as the monster, points a figure of the monster he made for the movie, as he speaks during an interview at his home in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. Nakajima, 85, was a stunt actor in samurai films, when he was approached to take the Godzilla role. He had to invent the character from scratch, and went to the zoo to study the way elephants and bears moved. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Monday, April 28, 2014 photo, collection of mementos about Godzilla are displayed in a showcase as original suit actor Haruo Nakajima, who has played his role as the monster, at his home in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. “It’s not some cowboy movie,” Nakajima, 85, said proudly, sitting among sepia-toned photos of him as a young man and Godzilla figures in his apartment. “Everyone asks me to play Godzilla again,” he said. “My Godzilla was the best.” (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Monday, April 28, 2014 photo, a visitor to the gallery to showcase art painting of Godzilla by Yuji Kaida, Yumiko Yamashita stands near a large figure of Godzilla on display at Cheepa's gallery in Tokyo. Yamashita, a 40-year-old welfare-worker, thinks Godzilla must be lovable - “kawaii” is the way she describes it. She is proud it’s drawing overseas respect but scoffed at U.S. depictions: “They make it too flashy. It becomes too American.” (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Monday, April 28, 2014 photo, original Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima, who has played his role as the monster, speaks during an interview at his home in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. “I am the original, the real thing,” Nakajima, 85, said, stressing that later Godzilla are mere imitations. “If Godzilla can’t walk properly, it’s nothing but a freak show.” The theme of his Godzilla was grander and more complex, addressing universal human dilemma, as it spoke to a Japan that still remembered wartime suffering, he said. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Monday, April 28, 2014 photo, original Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima, who has played his role as the monster, speaks during an interview at his home in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. Nakajima, 85, was a stunt actor in samurai films, when he was approached to take the Godzilla role. He had to invent the character from scratch, and went to the zoo to study the way elephants and bears moved. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Monday, April 28, 2014 photo, a large size figure of Godzilla in a diorama is on display at Cheepa's gallery in Tokyo. Godzilla-lovers in this nation where the stomping all began say their iconic hero falls into a special phantasmal category called “kaiju,” different from more mundane monsters like King Kong or Frankenstein. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
