or: everything you’ve always wanted to know about Godzilla & Co but were afraid to ask.

In between directing the first musical about the Ramones in Berlin, developing new radio plays for Germany’s WDR and being in the jury of renowned film festivals, notorious Berlin filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit went to Japan in order to do some serious research for his new book about the love of a lifetime, Japanese monster movies that is. Sven Fortmann had a chance to do a little G-talk with the man behind ‘Nekromantik’ on another grey afternoon in a never ending winter.

read more: http://www.joergbuttgereit.com/english/home/books/japan-die-monsterinsel/