Monster Of All Music Themes

(I’m an American acting as an assistant English Teacher in Japan. Summer vacation is coming up and I’m eating lunch with one of my classes.)

Homeroom Teacher: “What are you doing for summer vacation? Are you going to visit America?”

Me: “Probably not. I plan to see a couple of movies though.”

Student #1: “What?”

Me: “Eiga o miru.” *see a movie*

Student #1: “Nan eiga desu ka?”

Me: “Kore wa eigo nan desu ka?” *what is that in English?*

Student #1: “Uh…”

Me: “What…”

Student #2: “Oh! ‘What movie?'”

Me: “Guardians of the Galaxy, maybe… Definitely Gojira.”

(Gojira is the proper Japanese pronunciation of Godzilla.)

Homeroom Teacher: “Oh! Gojira?”

Me: “Oh, yeah, definitely. I used to watch that all the time as a kid.”

Homeroom Teacher: “Really?”

Me: “Yep. When I was a kid there were a lot of ninja movies and Godzilla movies to watch every Saturday.”

(I start humming the Godzilla attack theme from the original 1950’s movie.)

Me: “That’s not right.”

(Homeroom Teacher joins in.)

Me: “Ah! Thanks!”

Homeroom Teacher: “No problem.”

(We spend the next two minutes or so humming the attack theme song from ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ together.)

Me: “Awesome.”

(The students didn’t stop staring at us.)