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Part 2 - Japanese animation, Kaiju & SFX director Hideaki Anno connections present in Wargames (1983):
- James Tolkan plays Wigan Wargames & was Strickland in the Back To The Future time travel trilogy.
- Actress Mary Steenburgen was Clara in BTTF Part 3 (1990), a love interest to Doc Brown. She was fascinated with the early science fiction stories of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea author Jules Verne.
- Hideaki Anno envisioned the animation world of Nadia: The Secret Of Blue Water for the NHK TV series which broadcast between 1990-1991. The story has Captain Nemo & The Nautilus fight an alien / colonial invasion composed of the remnants of Atlantis.
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00:00future connections to Japanese animation, SFX, and kaiju movie director Hideaki Anno.
00:081983 techno-thriller War Games starred Matthew Broderick, who was later in the Roland Emmerich
00:17American version of Godzilla in 1998.
00:22Hideaki Anno directed the 2016 kaiju film Shin Godzilla.
00:28Actor James Tolkien plays Wiggin in War Games.
00:32He was also Principal Strickland in The Bats of the Future, time travel movies.
00:38Mary Steenburgen played Clara in Part 3, a love interest of Doc Brown.
00:44She was fascinated by the 19th century science fiction stories of Jules Verne, who wrote
00:5320,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
00:54And therein lies another connection to Hideaki Anno directed TV series, Fushi no Umi no Nadia,
01:04The Secret of Blue Water.
01:05This broadcast on NHK between 1990 and 1991.
01:09The Secret of Blue Water.
01:09The Secret of Blue Water.
01:10The Secret of Blue Water.
01:10The Secret of Blue Water.
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