Kazuya Haraguchi
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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo, Kazuya Haraguchi, 45, a technician for film reel, wearing a part of real Godzilla costume he purchased in auction, holds the monster's figure at his apartment 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. And the Hollywood version is no kaiju, said Haraguchi who collects Godzilla goods, including a 100,000 yen ($1,000) complete DVD collection from Toho Studios, which came with a huge fangs-baring Godzilla head. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo, Kazuya Haraguchi, 45, a technician for film reel, responds to a caller in his smartphone with some of his Godzilla collections surrounding him at his apartment in Tokyo. Haraguchi says Hollywood already botched it once with the 1998 remake, directed by Roland Emmerich. And almost everything about the new Godzilla is wrong again, from head to toe - how its arms are limp at its sides, how the scales on its back are too regular, even the shape of its head. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo, Kazuya Haraguchi, 45, a technician for film reel, picks up a figure of original Godzilla, right, and another Godzilla that appeared in later movie at his apartment in Tokyo. Haraguchi says Hollywood already botched it once with the 1998 remake, directed by Roland Emmerich. And almost everything about the new Godzilla is wrong again, from head to toe - how its arms are limp at its sides, how the scales on its back are too regular, even the shape of its head. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo, Kazuya Haraguchi, 45, a technician for film reel, looks for some items at his apartment filled with Godzilla collection in Tokyo. As Japan's film company Toho hasn’t made a Godzilla film for 10 years, “I hope the day will come when a Japanese director can make a Godzilla movie again for the world,” Haraguchi said. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
