Gaye Miyasaki
Gaye Miyasaki is a contributing writer. She resides in Hawaii and is a member of the NJAHS Board of Directors.
Updated Summer 2008
Stories from This Author
Grant Imahara Interview
Sept. 21, 2009 • Gaye Miyasaki
Flashback to 1954: “Godzilla” makes its big screen debut. Directed by Ishiro Honda and produced by Toho Studios in Japan, the film, which featured a man in a rubber suit demolishing a scale model of Tokyo, represented the cutting edge of special effects in cinema. You’ve come a long way, baby! Since then, audiences all over the world have been dazzled by increasingly sophisticated special effects in blockbusters like “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park,” and “The Matrix.” But, while everyone knows …