Name: 日本製造哥斯拉的玩具工廠 (The Godzilla-Making Toy Factory In Japan)
Uploaded: 2025-06-18T17:08:05.000Z
Duration: 9 min 12 s

So there's a few versions of this you can find, but they're all gonna cost you, if you're lucky, $500.

你可以找到幾種不同的版本，但都要花你 500 美元，如果你幸運的話。

You got deep pockets, you know, this is the way to go.

如果你腰纏萬貫，你知道，這是個好辦法。

Godzilla, the original Japanese movie monster.

哥斯拉，日本電影中最原始的怪獸。

He's had multiple movies over the past 60 years, and he's now immortalized as soft vinyl figures?

在過去的 60 年裡，他拍攝了多部電影，而現在他卻成為了永垂不朽的軟質乙烯基公仔？

Follow us and step inside the wild world of Japanese sofubi.

跟隨我們，走進日本索菲比的狂野世界。

Sofubi，在日語中是軟乙烯基的意思。

It's the original kaiju toy, and is unchanged from when they first started appearing in the 1960s.

這是最初的凱諸玩具，與 20 世紀 60 年代它們首次出現時相比沒有任何變化。

Kaiju means strange creature, by the way.

順便說一下，Kaiju 的意思是奇怪的生物。

And here in Japan, and for kaiju fans around the world, sofubi is still popular after all these years.

在日本和世界各地的凱諸迷們看來，這麼多年過去了，Sofubi 仍然很受歡迎。

No machines or industrial assembly lines, and it's produced around Japan in small factories like this one.

沒有機器或工業流水線，在日本各地的小工廠裡生產，就像現在這樣。

My name is Eiji Kaminaga, and I'm Marusan's 6th generation CEO.

我叫上永英治，是丸三的第六代首席執行官。

Marusan celebrated its 100th anniversary last year.

去年，Marusan 舉辦了 100 週年慶典。

Marusan was the first company in Japan to manufacture sofubi for Godzilla and Ultraman.

丸三公司是日本第一家生產哥斯拉和奧特曼索菲比的公司。

Marusan was founded by Naoki Chida in 1923.

丸三由千田直樹於 1923 年創立。

Marusan started manufacturing a range of tin toys in the early 1950s.

20 世紀 50 年代初，Marusan 開始生產一系列錫制玩具。

Marusan is famous for its Cadillac, which is a famous American car.

Marusan 因生產美國著名汽車凱迪拉克而聞名。

It's one of the most famous brick collectors today.

它是當今最著名的磚塊收藏者之一。

The company started to move away from tin as a material and moved into soft vinyl.

公司開始放棄使用錫作為材料，轉而使用軟乙烯基材料。

Originally, sofubi came from the United States.

Marusan's first sofubi was a baby doll called Mommy Doll.

Marusan 的第一個 sofubi 是一個名為 "媽媽娃娃 "的嬰兒玩偶。

Then, in 1954, Godzilla gave birth to a new genre, and a kaiju pop culture exploded.

隨後，1954 年，《哥斯拉》誕生了一個新的類型，凱諸流行文化也隨之爆發。

Marusan made a tin Godzilla toy in 1964, and two years later, they launched their first sofubi range called the Ultra-Q series.

1964 年，Marusan 製作了一個錫制哥斯拉玩具，兩年後，他們推出了第一個名為 Ultra-Q 系列的索菲比系列。

When I was in kindergarten, the Ultra-Q series was airing on TV.

在我上幼兒園的時候，電視上正在播放《Ultra-Q》系列。

After that, Ultraman, Captain Ultra, Ultraseven, and Godzilla series were released.

之後，《奧特曼》、《超能隊長》、《超能七人組》和《哥斯拉》系列相繼問世。

Today, Marusan specializes in making figures for collectors, which can sell for thousands of dollars.

如今，Marusan 專門為收藏家制作人物模型，售價可達數千美元。

But how are these soft vinyl figures made?

但是，這些軟膠人偶是如何製作的呢？

First, a prototype figure is made from wax.

The figure is submerged in a chemical vat, and the wax is melted out of the mold using a process called slash molding.

蠟像被浸沒在一個化學桶中，然後通過一種名為 "斜線成型 "的工藝將蠟從模具中熔化。

The vinyl material is then poured into the mold and spun in a central-fugal force machine to remove bubbles.

然後將乙烯基材料倒入模具中，並在中心發泡機中旋轉以去除氣泡。

Once the mold has finished burning in a hot chemical bath, the vinyl part can be removed from the mold and is now ready for assembling and painting.

一旦模具在熱化學浴中燃燒完畢，就可以將乙烯基部件從模具中取出，現在就可以進行組裝和噴漆了。

When it comes to painting the assembled figures, one man is considered the greatest in Japan, and he's been doing one thing and one thing only for 70 years.

在繪製組裝人物方面，有一個人被認為是日本最偉大的人，他 70 年來只做一件事，而且只做一件事。

Go to Sanz's paint jobs are revered by collectors.

桑茲的噴漆工藝受到收藏家的推崇。

Meet Jeremy, an American living in Japan who has a rather large toy collection.

傑里米是一位生活在日本的美國人，他收藏了大量玩具。

I've been living here in Tokyo for the past 20 years.

I've been collecting toys ever since I was a kid.

I started out with Masters of the Universe in He-Man, graduated to Ghostbusters, the real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I was always a big fan of Godzilla, but there weren't a lot of Godzilla toys available in the United States.

我從 "宇宙大師 "中的 "希曼 "開始，到 "捉鬼敢死隊"、真正的 "捉鬼敢死隊"、"忍者神龜"，但我一直是 "哥斯拉 "的忠實粉絲，但在美國並沒有很多 "哥斯拉 "玩具。

Something I didn't really know about until I moved here is Sofubi, and now I think predominantly my collection is made up of at least 50% Sofubi.

在我搬到這裡之前，我對索福比一無所知，現在我認為我的收藏中至少有 50% 是索福比。

The toys that are being made today are typically for collectors.

現在生產的玩具一般都是給收藏者的。

It's literally like a handmade sculpture that is handcrafted, hand-pulled, hand-painted.

這簡直就像一個手工製作的雕塑，手工製作、手工拉制、手工上色。

It's no different than getting a handmade piece from your favorite artist or your favorite painter and having it in your home.

這與從您最喜愛的藝術家或畫家那裡獲得一件手工作品並將其擺放在家中沒有什麼不同。

In this case, you have a sculpture and a painting in one.

在這種情況下，雕塑和繪畫合二為一。

This is Gamera, the giant flying turtle monster, and he's one of my favorites, and I had this one painted by Goto-san, so this is a one-off, and this is an original 1966 Godzilla by Marusan.

這是我的最愛之一--巨型飛龜怪卡美拉，我請後藤先生繪製了這幅畫，所以這是獨一無二的，這是丸三 1966 年創作的哥斯拉原作。

Having something of Godzilla from the 60s is kind of insane to me.

在我看來，擁有 60 年代哥斯拉的東西有點瘋狂。

This is a cool rendition of Godzilla in his meltdown form.

這是對哥斯拉崩潰形態的酷炫演繹。

Making these figures is mostly a male-dominated industry, but there are some exceptions.

製作這些數字大多是男性主導的行業，但也有一些例外。

Asaka is working for Marusan as a model maker.

朝香目前在丸三公司擔任模型製作師。

The mold is very heavy, and it depends on the size of the Sofubi, but it's very heavy, and it's a weight that women can't carry.

模具非常重，這取決於 Sofubi 的大小，但它非常重，這是女性無法承受的重量。

The factory manager says, it's not a job for women.

廠長說，這不是一份適合女性的工作。

I'm very grateful to Marusan's president, Kaminaga-san, for allowing me to do this, and for giving me this wonderful environment.

我非常感謝 Marusan 的社長 Kaminaga 先生允許我這樣做，併為我提供了這麼好的環境。

In 2019, I designed a new character, Marsu, and it was released in Taiwan.

2019 年，我設計了一個新角色 "瑪蘇"，並在臺灣發行。

I want to continue to make women's Sofubi, and I don't want to look down on women's Sofubi.

我想繼續製作女性索福比，我不想瞧不起女性索福比。

I want to continue to make Sofubi with confidence.

我想滿懷信心地繼續製作 Sofubi。

One of the most famous areas for Sofubi shopping in Tokyo is Nakano Broadway.

東京最有名的索福比購物區之一是中野百老匯。

於是，傑里米帶我們參觀了一番。

These are mini, retro Sofubi that came out in the early 2000s, like 2004, 2005.

這些迷你、復古的索福比出現在 21 世紀初，比如 2004、2005 年。

不過，這些價格還是可以承受的。

They're all still like $10 to $40, so you can collect these for a decent price and not go bankrupt if you're trying to get started in collecting Sofubi.

它們的價格都還在 10 美元到 40 美元之間，所以如果你想開始收集索福比，你可以用合適的價格收集這些索福比，而不會破產。

So this is my favorite shop in all of Japan, and they sell a lot of weird stuff, but mainly like smaller toys from the 80s and 90s.

這是我在全日本最喜歡的一家店，店裡賣很多稀奇古怪的東西，但主要是 80 和 90 年代的小型玩具。

Yeah, this would be a $100 eraser right here.

是的，這塊橡皮擦價值 100 美元。

They're literally called keshigomu, which means eraser rubber, and they are not actually used to erase anything at school.

它們的字面意思是 "橡皮擦"，在學校裡並不是用來擦任何東西的。

The thing is, you have to store them in really good conditions because they could get really sun-damaged easily, they can get moldy easily, so the rarity is gonna go up and up and up and on this kind of stuff, because they don't really make these kind of toys anymore here.

問題是，你必須把它們存放在非常好的條件下，因為它們很容易被太陽晒壞，也很容易發黴，所以這種東西的稀有程度會越來越高，因為這裡已經不再生產這種玩具了。

It's only like $35, but since I bought those other things, that's about all the money I have brought with me today, and I try to keep it to what cash I bring with me so that I don't go overboard and upset the wife.

雖然只有 35 美元，但由於我買了其他東西，這差不多是我今天帶的所有錢了，我儘量把錢控制在我帶的現金範圍內，這樣我就不會太過分，惹妻子生氣了。

With the growing popularity of monster movies, it looks like Sofubi won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

隨著怪獸電影越來越受歡迎，Sofubi 看來不會很快消失。

I think humans have always been fascinated with giant monsters, and Japanese films from the 50s and 60s are some of the very first really popular giant monster movies.

我認為人類一直對巨型怪獸著迷，而上世紀五六十年代的日本電影則是最早真正流行的巨型怪獸電影。

Now we are kind of remaking them in modern movies in not just Japan, but in the US, and they're taking off with a whole new generation, so yeah, it's wild to see the longevity of kaiju.

現在，不僅是在日本，在美國，我們也在現代電影中重塑這些怪獸，它們在新一代中大放異彩。

When we started to think that toys were for kids, it became a collection for adults.

當我們開始認為玩具是給孩子們玩的時候，它就成了大人的收藏品。

It was a time when you could buy kaiju toys with pride.

那是一個可以自豪地購買凱諸玩具的時代。

I think that's one of the reasons why kaiju have always been so popular.

我認為這也是怪獸一直如此受歡迎的原因之一。