Truthfully, the suit has very little ventilation if any and the actor must breathe and see through two tiny holes in the creature's neck area. As you can imagine, these were minuscule, seeing that they don't show up in the final movie. Also, the suits weigh up to 280 lbs and often more. Many of the suits limit the actors to slow arm movements. Some actors wear "semi-suits" (see below) with just the legs for stomping and kicking over seas of miniature buildings. However, due to a kaiju's nature of thrashing his or her arms around in most cases, if something went wrong, the actor within the suit couldn't alert the crew of the situation unless he fainted or stopped acting. Haraou Nakajima fainted once on the set of the classic Godzilla, King of the Monsters, and it really happens more often than none. The actor must hurry to destroy the miniatures within a few minutes' time or else something might very easily go wrong.  Perhaps the most notable time in which something has gone completely haywire was in the filming of the original as well. The water climax was being filmed in the studio pool and a functioning electrical cable fell into the water while Katsumi Tezuka was rising out of the water.

    The tricks of the trade are many. Some of the most dangerous and difficult shots are when a creature will tumble or fall into water. For these shots, models or dummies will be used to take the fall.  Some more of the hardest parts are when they shoot a water scene. Now, that may not seem like a daunting task, but in truth, the suits (which can weigh up to 250 pounds) are extremely hard to keep stationary. Suit actors must use traditional scuba gear and find it near impossible to move at an at all reasonable speed. For Godzilla 1985, the suit maintainer said that if Ken Satsuma tipped over, he would most definitely drown. It's impossible to rear all that weight up while underwater. Katsumi also some troubles on the set of Godzilla Raids Again portraying Angurius when he crashed into the Osaka Castle moat and was near death. Only today has the craft gotten easier on the suit actor. Still, though, the upbringing of technology makes some things no easier. The suits now are jammed with mechanics and electronic gizmos to control the facial movements, thus making it even more difficult. Also rigged up for special scenes are lighting equipment on the back of the suit for the fins, which is also where the suit splits and the actor enters. Ken Satsuma was portraying Godzilla in Gojira (1984) and a cord for the light-up feature on the fins went loose. This sent repeated electric shocks through the rubber suit and he was electrocuted several times. He claimed that it felt like being repeatedly punched in the back of the head.

    The suits have had a long history. The very first ones were very hard to articulate for combat and ended up giving suit actors blisters and scrapes very frequently. The recent, more realistic suits (e.g. Godzilla 2000, see below) are made out of more bendable, fiber-esque materials that bend and twist more easily, thus making battle scenes more manueverable and easier to complete within a suit-actor's short time frame.