The Monster The Challenged The World ('57), Kid Niki: Radical Ninja ('86) & Future Kaiju Links

Many Japanese video games will feature a character that may closely resemble one shown in a foreign film of the past. Some may see the reference as a stand alone homage, but remarkably if you do some investigation, links to future related works appear. In this video I look at the 1986 IREM arcade game Kid Niki: Radical Ninja (Kaiketsu Yanchamaru). The level 4 boss is the giant Centipede Otomo Mukade (Green Grote Grub). I thought this character very similar to the one shown in the 1957 American horror / sci-fi film The Monster The Challenged The World (1957).

A link to Japanese Kaiju (monster) film may come way of actor Hans Conried, he later appeared with Godzilla King Of The Monsters (1956) actor Raymond Burr on a 1963 TV episode of the game show Stump The Stars.
In the American edit of Godzilla, Burr plays an reporter describing the giant monster's rampage of destruction through Tokyo.

Interestingly, Irem video game game designer Kazuma Kujo (known for survival action game, Disaster Report ('02)) company Granzella would later produce Kyoei Toshi (2017) which featured characters from well known monster and SFX franchises Godzilla, Ultraman, Gamera, Patlabor, and Neon Genesis Evangelion.