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Godzilla head on Hotel Gracery, Kabukicho entertainment & neon red-light district, Shinjuku ward, Tokyo, Japan.

Godzilla (Gojira) head and claw on Hotel Gracery (2015), in Kabukicho entertainment and neon red-light district, in Shinjuku ward, in Tokyo, Japan. The character first appeared in Ishiro Honda's 1954 film Godzilla and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produced by Toho, three Hollywood films and numerous video games, novels, comic books and television shows. It is often dubbed "the King of the Monsters", a phrase first used in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!", the Americanized version of the original film. Hotel Gracery supports a life-sized bust of Godzilla on the eighth floor, a tribute to the legendary movie monster and production company Toho Co. The building hosts a 12-screen cinema and IMAX theater. Kabukicho was named from late-1940s plans to build a kabuki theater which never happened.

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Godzilla (Gojira) head and claw on Hotel Gracery (2015), in Kabukicho entertainment and neon red-light district, in Shinjuku ward, in Tokyo, Japan. The character first appeared in Ishiro Honda's 1954 film Godzilla and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produced by Toho, three Hollywood films and numerous video games, novels, comic books and television shows. It is often dubbed "the King of the Monsters", a phrase first used in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!", the Americanized version of the original film. Hotel Gracery supports a life-sized bust of Godzilla on the eighth floor, a tribute to the legendary movie monster and production company Toho Co. The building hosts a 12-screen cinema and IMAX theater. Kabukicho was named from late-1940s plans to build a kabuki theater which never happened.
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