2026 November 04 • Wednesday

Yesterday was Godzilla day and while some lucky people went out to see Godzilla Minus Zero, I watched Godzilla vs. Destoroyah at home and also checked out this comic, Godzilla Heist.

It's a neat idea. This guy figures out a way basically to lure Godzilla into appearing so he can use the chaos to pull off a daring daylight robbery.

And it turns out that what he's trying to steal is… MechaGodzilla!

But Godzilla comics are kind of curious. Something about them just remains fundamentally unexciting for me and Godzilla Heist was less interesting than the others I've read.
2026 November 02 • Monday

The great Cinema-kan label has a double feature for the 926th Soundtrack of the Week: A Wife Confesses, scored by Riichiro Manabe, and Hajime Kaburagi's music for Tattoo.

The main title theme for A Wife Confesses uses violin as the main voice, supported by accordion and xylophone and the occasional cymbal crash.

This theme is developed and rearranged in other cues, with the addition of more percussion, not going too far from the original instrumentation, and always having a moody sense of fatalism.

A piece called "Curious Eyes" is actually a swinging number and presumably source music in the movie.

Hajime Kubaragi has a larger group for Tattoo and the music has a more conventional dramatic sound, getting a lot from strings, flute and percussion as well as some miscellaneous odd sounds and traditional Japanese classical instruments.