Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman)

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Existential brooding ape. I riff with love, always. • Godzilla • Spectreman • Tokusatsu • Horror • Comics • MST3K No war. Trans rights. Reproductive rights. Human rights. No debate. Host of #GHWP, #SpaceApeCinema, #Cinemon.

Kino blu-ray covers for THE SCREAMING WOMAN and THE SECRET WAR OF HARRY FRIGG.
Breast missile system Mazinger Z robot Aphrodite.
Mad Gallant standing between a cricified Anri and Miyu on Juspion.
Rasp the cobra man and Antor the insect man from Dino Riders.
Machigo Soga as Witch Bandora/Rita Repulsa
Son Of Karas Criterion Closet picks round two: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, THIS IS SPINAL TAP, CLUNY BROWN, and Akira Kurosawa's RAN.
Son Of Karas Criterion Closet picks: SOLARIS, GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE, THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK, and YOJIMBO
Kiyomi Tsukada photo, standing on a sidewalk with hands on top of her head, wearing a short-sleeved white buttoned blouse, white skirt with very thin vertical blue stripes, and black belt with gold buckle. Blurred image of random people walking in the background.
Blu-ray cover for RAMPO NOIR. Artwork mixed with film stills in a collage split into four segments for the four stories in the film.
Blu-rays for DEATH KAPPA, Super Rescue Solbrain, and Kamen Rider X
Characters file into a room for a billiards game in WANDERING GINZA BUTTERFLY. Star Meiko Kaji stands next to a large sepia tone model shot of a topless Japanese woman in a shower, her hands pressing against the wet glass.
Meiko Kaji in WANDERING GINZA BUTTERFLY, being held captive in a gangster's office and surrounded by his thugs. Gangster subtitle text reads, "I hear you're pretty tough for a girl."
Blu-ray cover for WANDERING GINZA BUTTERFLY collection. Colorful pop style artwork featuring billiard balls, hanafuda cards and star Meiko Kaji holding a knife.
Animated character from Gerald Potterton animated short "It's a Crime." Simplistic oblong oval shaped head with a long and pointed horizontal nose, tiny curved mustache, simple oval eye, snow cap, sitting on a snowy mountain peak while holding a cigarette with a long filter stick.
Close up of fish spoilage bacteria from Gerald Potterton animated short "Fish Spoilage Control." Animated red creature resembling a devil and with a drooling fanged mouth.
LADY BATTLE COP promotional poster
Cyborg from ROBO VAMPIRE
Title still for ROBO VAMPIRE with decayed zombie vampire on screen.
Still from documentary ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE, black and white photo from 42nd Street looking up at two Cinerama Theatre marquees advertising for the films RUBY, GODZILLA VS. THE COSMIC MONSTER, and Bruce Li as BRUCE LEE, THE MAN, THE MYTH. Partial image of KING KONG remake poster dares photograph to no earlier than 1976.
LADY BATTLE COP titular character in her battle armor and helmet
Still from AYBOLIT-66 which was incorporated into TIKI TIKI. Professor, his dog, and monkey girl all tied up and gagged. Dog and monkey girl are both people in costumes.
Kiyomi Tsukada as Anri in Juspion, hair pulled back and braided as she prepares to jump into a swimming pool.
Talking tree from Juspion, subtitle text reads, "All of my dearest friends are dead. All of my children are dead."
Yuko Mitsui as Amazones One from Juspion
Robocop ripoff from ROBO VAMPIRE.
Arrow Video cover for G. I. SAMURAI featuring modern day mitary transported back in time to the shogun era.
Still from The Tick animated series featuring the moon with the letters "CHA" carved into its surface, a callback to a story in which the villain Chairface Chippendale attempted to carve his name on the moon with a laser before the Tick defeated him. The moon also had a large bite taken out of it later by a parody of Marvel's Galactus, and the moon's damaged appearance was kept in place for dedicated story continuity.
Talking tree from Juspion, a tree with human eyes and mouth superimposed onto its trunk through blue screen effects. Subtitle text reads, "Apparently, I'm hindering construction of a new apartment complex."
Bandai soft vinyl figures for 1955 Godzilla and Anguirus "Imaginative Color" versions. Godzilla in icy white and blue colors and Anguirus in translucent red with golden spines.
Professor in GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN
Blu-ray cover for TIKI TIKI, title carved in a mountainside with an animated King Kong standing behind it. An animated monkey rides a motorcycle in the foreground.
4K blu-ray cover for Vinegar Syndrome release of Abel Ferrara'S BODY SNATCHERS. Solid white cover with black sketched human eye, a green plant vine emerging from the lower eye lid.
ROBO VAMPIRE poster, Robocop artwork image with Ropocop holding a Chinese vampire in a headlock while shooting at other vampires with a machine gun
Blue Demon, Santo, and Mil Mascaras sitting at a beachside cafe and being served drinks
Carlos Suarez with a mean expression
Santo Mask covered in seaweed
Map background of Bermuda Triangle, title still for MYSTERY IN BERMUDA
"Are you married, Santo?" "No, not yet." Exchange between Santo and a woman in MYSTERY IN BERMUDA
Rock Gorilla from Juspion, glowing yellow eyes and a vacuum of smoke pouring into his mouth.
Bandai soft vinyl figures for King Kong 1962 and Mega Size Biollanre 2026 release.
Front box artwork for Bandai soft vinyl Mega Monster Series Biollante.
Bandai soft vinyl figures for Godzilla holding Hedrium spheres and Godzilla in his jumping dance pose from MONSTER ZERO.
Biollante figure keychain
Bandai soft vinyl figures for Bagan (Super Godzilla game color version in red, black and gold) and Minus One Godzilla (small size figure in icy white and blue colors, head covered in white coloring to resemble snowy peak of Mt. Fuji)
Shipping box of items wrapped in bubble wrap.
Stack of blu-rays with visible title sides for the Sam Katzman Cold War Creatures box set (THE GIANT CLAW, ZOMBIES OF MORA-TAU, THE WEREWOLF, and CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN), the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy box set, Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Vol 2 (TOKYO MIGHTY GUY, DANGER PAYS, MURDER UNINCORPORATED), THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION, THE INITIATION OF SARAH, CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE, and KING OF KONG ISLAND.
Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras sitting at a beachside table and being served drinks in MYSTERY IN BERMUDA.
Title still for A TALE OF TWO SISTERS. Small red Korean font on a background pattern of grass and flower art.
Sisters Su-mi and Su-yeon in A TALE OF TWO SISTERS.
Boomerang from Juspion
"Juspion, who lost his parents in a crash while traveling the universe," read the subtitles on artwork of a crashed space ship. An old man with white beard stands nect to the ship and holds a baby Juspion.
Bandai soft vinyl figures for Battra larva form, stone giant DaiMajin, and Shin Ultraman version of Gomess modeled on the image of Shin Godzilla.
Bandai soft vinyl Godzilla Raids Again "Imaginative Color" versions of 1955 Godzilla and Anguirus. Godzilla in icy white and blue colors, Anguirus in translucent red with golden spines.
EBay listing for Shout Factory Gaoranger DVD set at a base asking price of $218 plus 17.50 delivery.