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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.
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- 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.
Plot. In the Arctic, an unknown aircraft is shot down by an American jet fighter. The aircraft crashes and its cargo, an atomic bomb, explodes. The explosion awakens a giant prehistoric turtle with tusks.
When an ancient statue is moved for display in Expo '70, a giant, vaguely Triceratops-like monster is released. The monster goes to Japan in pursuit of the statue and ends up battling Gamera, the giant flying turtle.
- 12 'Gamera vs. Zigra'
- 11 'Gamera: Super Monster'
- 10 'Gamera vs. Giron'
- 9 'Gamera vs. Viras'
- 8 'Gamera vs. Gyaos'
- 7 'Gamera vs. Barugon'
- 6 'Gamera'
- 5 'Gamera vs. Jiger'
- 4 'Gamera The Brave'
- 3 'Gamera: Guardian of The Universe'
IMDb Rating: 3.5/10 The lowest-rated Gamera film is the seventh in the series, Gamera vs. Zigra. Starting in 1965, there was a Gamera film released every year up until 1971, whereby it was decided the series had run its course, and it was put on hiatus until 1980. The saturation of Gamera movies likely led to Gamera vs. Zigra only managing a meager...
IMDb Rating: 3.6/10 It's a little surprising that Gamera: Super Monster isn't the lowest-rated film in the series, even if it's only 0.1 points aheadof the film in last place. It's remarkably lazy, with a plot allegedly involving an alien race sending all the monsters Gamera's already fought to Earth again for a series of rematches to defeat him fo...
IMDb Rating: 4.2/10 When it comes to ranking Gamera movies,Gamera vs. Giron is the point where things at least start getting fun and oddly charming. Much of it takes place on an alien planet and features Gamera trying to rescue two children from a group of aliens who like to eat human brains. It's simultaneously childish and creepy/violent, with a ...
IMDb Rating: 4.5/10 Gamera vs. Viraspits Gamera against one of the most unusual movie monsters of all time: Viras. It's a gigantic squid-like creature that can change sizes, and it's hard to properly explain how bizarre it looks without seeing it in action. RELATED: The Best So-Bad-They're-Good Movies on Amazon Prime As such, this movie - which onc...
IMDb Rating: 5.0/10 Gamera vs. Gyaos introduces the most prominent antagonist of the Gamera series, a bat-like pterosaur known as Gyaos. Unlike most Gamera foes, Gyaos isn't used by an alien race to take over Earth and is instead awoken by unusual volcanic activity, with Gamera the only one who has a chance of defeating it. As a film, Gamera vs. Gy...
IMDb Rating: 5.0/10 The first of many sequels for Gamera, Gamera vs. Barugonmarked the first time a movie in the series was filmed in color, and also the first time Gamera was given another giant monster to battle. That monster is Barugon, who hatches from an egg that was previously believed to be an opal, and begins attacking Japan. So begins the ...
IMDb Rating: 5.1/10 Right from the start of the Gamera series, it's hard not to compare it to Godzilla. Like that series' original movie from 1954, the first Gamera movie from 1965 is also in black-and-white, has more of a focus on horror than action, and doesn't feature another giant monster for the title character to fight. Gamera is charmingly s...
IMDb Rating: 5.3/10 The highest-rated of all the Gamera movies before the series was rebooted in the 1990s, Gamera vs. Jiger is certainly a fun time. Beyond being another movie where Gamera has to fight another big monster, Gamera vs. Jiger stands out for its story involving two young boys needing to go into a submarine inside Gamera to prevent egg...
IMDb Rating: 6.6/10 Gamera The Braveis something of an outlier for the series, as it doesn't quite fit in neatly with either the 1990s reboot trilogy or the original eight movies in the series. Instead, it feels quite self-contained, and follows a young boy who finds an egg that contains a new version of Gamera inside it. There's a certain novelty ...
IMDb Rating: 6.7/10 Gamera: Guardian of the Universe kicks off the best grouping of Gamera films within the overall series: three films that have come to be known as the Heisei Trilogy, released between 1995 and 1999. The production values dwarf the earlier films in the series, and no longer does Gamera feel like a mere Godzilla knock-off. Its plot...
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Gamera vs. Viras: Directed by Noriaki Yuasa, Shigeo Tanaka. With Kôjirô Hongô, Tôru Takatsuka, Carl Craig, Michiko Yaegaki. Gamera the Flying Turtle falls under the spell of evil aliens, but two children free him and he returns to fight the aliens' monster, Viras.
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.
