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Practical Effects
Men in rubber suits throwing boulders at each other — cinema.
Production
Toho's wild reimagining of Kong, legally distinct and hilariously janky.
Direction
Honda balances satire and destruction with surprising craft.

Director
Ishirō Honda
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