Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday X2 to Gamera (YET AGAIN!!) draconicverses, March 21, 2012 Hot on the heels of YESTERDAY’S double anniversary for Gamera movies, comes TODAY’S double anniversary. I guess Daiei had a thing about release dates. At any rate, today marks the 43rd anniversary of GAMERA TAI DAI KAIJU GIRON (1969) (Gamera vs. Guiron) being released to Japanese theatres. It would be… Continue Reading
Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday X2 to Gamera! draconicverses, March 20, 2012 Greetings, Kaiju-fans. Today marks a unique anniversary for the original mutant turtle, Gamera. Back in 1968, Japanese audiences were introduced to the tentacled space villain Viras, in GAMERA TAI UCHU KAIJU BAIRASU (Gamera vs Space Monster Biras) which US TV audiences would see as DESTROY ALL PLANETS a few years… Continue Reading
Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday, GAMERA Vs. GYAOS (1967) draconicverses, March 15, 2012 Forty five years ago today, saw the release of the third entry in Daiei’s Showa Era Gamera series, Daikaiju Kuchusen: Gamera Tai Gyaosu (Giant Monster Mid-Air Battle: Gamera Vs. Gaos) or, as it was released on TV in the US, RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS. This AIP version is what… Continue Reading
Japanese Monster Movies HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAMERA! draconicverses, November 26, 2011 46 Years ago today, among fire and ice, Gamera was born. It was on this day that DAIKAIJU GAMERA was released in Japan. Gamera was made as Daiei Studios’ answer to Godzilla. There have been two versions released in the US, one back in the 1960s called GAMMERA THE INVINCIBLE… Continue Reading