American Cameraman (The Man in The Suit)

“	This is where I come in.	„
	~ The first quote stated by American Cameraman when introducing himself.

An unnamed former TOHO employee hired as a cameraman, is an American Cameraman who appears in the Godzilla analog horror series The Man in The Suit, specifically in episode #3 "Godzilla Encounter (1962)"

Recently, this series was cancelled due to the drama associated with fans of the original Godzilla. (See the trivia.)

He was a former TOHO employee who was hired for shooting on the filming of King Kong vs. Godzilla, but is encountered by The Man in The Suit/Goji.

Biography[]

Godzilla Encounter (1962)[]

The unknown American Cameraman states in Godzilla Encounter (1962), that this incident involves him, and that he was hired for the shooting of King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), he was also told by TOHO about The Man in The Suit and told to stay quiet about it, under the threat he would be arrested. As The Man in The Suit and Shoichi Hirose, the Kong suit actor, were being filmed for their final battle, the cameraman states that he was ordered to record it all.

The Man in The Suit pushed Shoichi Hirose over the edge and into the water, realising that The Man in The Suit got out of the water, the unknown American Cameraman was sick to his stomach, took his other camera and bolted out of the studio, but the power went out, he uses his flashlight to find his way out, but he hears footsteps coming towards him but when he flashes his camera, he expects it to be an employee, but he what he finds instead, was The Man in The Suit.

Depiction of Growth (1962)[]

Following the first encounter with The Man in The Suit, the unknown American Cameraman claims that he needed to learn more about The Man in The Suit and what caused Goji's issues in the first place. He approaches a friend who he nicknames "Elisa", and records a section of a call between "Elisa" and himself, while "Elisa" was in the middle of teaching a class.

After recording a piece of the call, he began to question what Goji would look like when the mutation was finished, but was told that Goji's mutation is endless. She told him to go to an artist and get a drawing, he went to get a drawing but got three drawings.

"スーツのトライアル" / "Trial of the Suit" (1958)[]

Before the events of Godzilla Encounter (1962), in 1958, the unknown American Cameraman snuck around at the TOHO studio and found a tape labelled "適合試験" (En: "Comformity Test"), and played the tape, learning about Goji, prior to 1962.

Mailed Message (1962)[]

The unknown American Cameraman is mailed a tape, thinking nobody from TOHO made the tape, he played it, wanting to know about what the tape contained and who made it.

"Dorsal Extraction" (1962)[]

The unknown American Cameraman received two sets of mail, both were from TOHO, he learns that the first piece of mail was about how no one at TOHO mailed him, despite the fact that the TOHO mail address was on the package. The second mail he received was that he was fired from TOHO, thinking that he would have leaked information about Goji to other people, as a response to getting sacked from TOHO, the unknown American Cameraman befriends someone to be a spy to get him photos, tapes and information about what TOHO was doing with Goji. He gets a tape labelled "Dorsal Extraction", and plays the tape, but learns that Goji snapped and attacked another cameraman as the flash from the camera hurt Goji's eyes.

Rare Newspaper (1964)[]

Two years after 1962, the unknown American Cameraman tries to leave Japan, but fears he would be arrested, knowing he went too far down a "rabbit hole" about The Man in The Suit. He later learns on the news, during the making of one of TOHO's next films, Goji had escaped. He was confused and curious about Goji's escape, and wanting to know if TOHO had captured The Man in The Suit.

Seven Updates (1964)[]

Following the events of the Mosura Suit Incident (1964), the man receives seven updates.

In the first update, he hears that the spy he befriended had passed by a room where a TOHO executive and government official were talking, and finally knew who was helping TOHO with hiding the information about The Man in The Suit. In the second update, he learns about the cocoon that contained what was "The Woman in The Larva Suit", was forming in one of TOHO's warehouses, and that when people touched the cocoon, it sprayed an orange gas that flooded the room.

In the third and fourth updates, the unknown American Cameraman learns about a section of the forest where Goji released a red boiling liquid, he hears from the spy that he befriended that one of the people with a hazmat suit saw an "eyeball" in the "puddle", and that the area around "The Eye in The Puddle" was shut down.

In the fifth update, he finds out that TOHO decided to greenlight another movie. In the sixth update, he gets a letter in the mail from one of his daughters and after reading the letter from the mail, he states that he misses them, knowing he can't come home despite that he wished to return home. In the seventh and final update, he receives a concept art about what the new monster would look like in TOHO's next movie, and plans to intervene.

Ghidorah Suit Incident (1964)[]

After learning about TOHO's next movie and that it involved a three-headed space dragon named "Ghidorah", the unknown American Cameraman confirms that this time, he will intervene to try and kill The Man in The Suit. He goes to the TOHO studio with the a guitar case, knowing that taking a shotgun into a studio would be risky. While The Man in The Suit had puked the same red boiling liquid in the Ghidorah suit's head, he entered the TOHO studio and was stopped by some of the crew of TOHO.

They asked him where he had been for the past two years, he replied with a question asking wasn't he fired, but they replied saying that he never got sacked at all. As he barged through the studio towards where Goji and the Ghidorah suit was, he realized the set that the film crew and the suit actors were had a power box in the room. Recognising the same man from before, Goji faced the power box, and the power went out.

The Man in The Suit chased him through the corridors of the TOHO studio until the Cameraman drops the camera and fires his shotgun at Goji, blowing up the creature's head. He runs back to pick up the camera and shows a photo of Goji's headless body, but witnesses that The Man in The Suit regenerated its entire head, showing a photo of Goji's regrown head, and it attacks the Cameraman.

Trivia[]

It remains unknown in regards to the profile picture, with the eyes covered by a black box, if this image was a photo of a real person or if it was A.I. generated.
In Mailed Message (1962), though it was never stated in the episode itself, is hypothesized that the tape that the unknown American Cameraman watched was made by Goji, in the lore of The Man in The Suit.
The Cameraman in the “Ghidorah Suit Incident (1964)" theorized that Toho somehow modified the appearance of the The Man in The Suit, but this is yet to be explained.
It is unknown if the Cameraman is still alive or if Goji managed to maul him to death after growing back its head in the “Ghidorah Suit Incident (1964)".
Unfortunately. The series was cancelled due to recent drama near the end of December involving fans of the original Godzilla. Most of them did not like the concept of the plot and the moments associated in this analog horror, mostly, to the Man in the Costume himself, because for some reason they saw in him "ridicule" and "disrespect" for the original late actor who played Godzilla in the 1954 film. It even got to the point that these same fans began to threaten and send letters with death wishes to the author himself, as well as doxxing his personal address and got so bad he almost took his own life and got hospitalized.
- As stated by Unknowingly himself, after the drama, the series will probably never be returned and will focus on a Murder Drones based one instead.
- The cancellation of the series happened on February 10, 2025 where Unknowing tweeted out on Twitter / X "By the Way, The Man in The Suit is OFFICIALLY Cancelled."^[1]
- In June 2025, The series was canonized into a game on Roblox, originally titled "Gojira", later retitled "Suitborn", Unknowingly later posted a trailer to the game.
  - It's unknown exactly if the cameraman will make an appearance in the game.