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Gamera: The Giant Monster: Directed by Noriaki Yuasa. With Eiji Funakoshi, Harumi Kiritachi, Junichiro Yamashita, Yoshiro Uchida. From out of the arctic comes a gigantic flying, fire-breathing turtle that sets its sights on destroying Tokyo.
- (3.8K)
- Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Noriaki Yuasa
- 1964-08-05
Gamera is depicted as a giant, flying, fire-breathing, prehistoric turtle. In the first film, Gamera is portrayed as aggressive and destructive, though he also saves a child.
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- Gamera, the Giant Monster. November 27, 1965. A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice.
- Gamera vs. Barugon. April 17, 1966. Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan.
- Gamera vs. Gyaos. March 15, 1967. Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray.
- Gamera vs. Viras. March 20, 1968. As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabitants, including Viras, a squid-like monster that grows to colossal size to battle Gamera.
The second Gamera film, also known as War of the Monsters, but best known as Gamera vs. Baragon, and the first to be filmed in colour, retrieves the flying turtle from outer space by way of a meteor to face an obvious third-rate Godzilla rip-off with ice breath instead of fire and a dorsal fin that makes rainbows.
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
