I love GODZILLA: FINAL WARS with all my heart, and in 2018, I made the bullish request that we play it for my birthday as part of me and Peter Kuplowsky's THE LASER BLAST FILM SOCIETY @ The Royal Cinema in Toronto, Canada. Peter was not only nice enough to let me do it, but he also moved heaven and hell so we could screen it (Toho is not... The most accommodating when it comes to that kind of stuff) - which involved reaching out to FINAL WARS director Ryuhei Kitamura, who Peter had come to know because he helped program some of Kitamura's films for TIFF, and asking if he could maybe pull some strings to let us show it. Not only was Kitamura nice enough to do so, but he also recorded an intro for the screening! And the intro was 16 minutes long!

I thought it had been lost to time, but I found it last night going through some burned Blu-rays! So, for posterity, please enjoy the very nice introduction recorded for my Toronto Birthday Screening of GODZILLA: FINAL WARS by Ryuhei Kitamura.

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