Haruo Nakajima, who played Godzilla for 20 years, dies aged 88

Godzilla actor Harou Nakajima has died at the age of 88.

Over the course of 20 years, Nakajima donned the character’s iconic, cumbersome suit to play the creature in a dozen films in total, from the original 1954 Godzilla, all the way to 1972’s Godzilla vs. Gigan.

In an interview last April, the actor explained how the first suit, which weighed around 200lbs(90kgs), was created from ready-mixed concrete since rubber was in short supply in the aftermath of WWII. He’s also stated in the past that the suit was so difficult to breathe in that an oxygen tube had to be attached.