Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Gamera vs. Jiger stars Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Burris, Katherine Murphy, and Kon Ohmura, and features the fictional giant flying turtle monster Gamera. The film was released theatrically in Japan on 21 March 1970, and did not receive a theatrical release in the United States, instead being released directly to television by American ...
The Black Tortoise, one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations, is a possible source of inspiration for Gamera. [10]The name Gamera (ガメラ) derives from the Japanese kame ("turtle"), and the suffix -ra, a suffix shared by such other kaiju characters as Godzilla (Gojira) and Mothra. [11]
Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) Return of Daimajin (1966) Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967) The Woman Gambler (1967) Gamera vs. Viras (1968) Peony Lantern (1968) Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969) [3] Hiken yaburi (1969) Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword (1969) The Falcon Fighters (1969) The Haunted Castle (1969) Gateway to Glory (1970) Karate ...
Gamera, the Giant Monster [5] (大怪獣ガメラ, Daikaijū Gamera) [6] is a 1965 Japanese kaiju film directed by Noriaki Yuasa, with special effects by Yonesaburo Tsukiji. [2] Produced and distributed by Daiei Film , it is the first film in the Gamera franchise and the Shōwa era .
Nezura 1964 (ネズラ1964, Nezura Ichikyūrokuyon) is a 2020 Japanese crowdfunded kaiju biopic film directed by Hiroto Yokokawa ().The film was based on Daiei Film's unfinished 1964 Gamera precursor Giant Horde Beast Nezura and stars Yukijirō Hotaru as a character based on the president of Daiei, Mai Saito (), Mach Fumiake (), and Shirō Sano.
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦, Gamera: Daikaijū Kūchū Kessen, lit. ' Gamera: Giant Monster Midair Battle ' ) is a 1995 Japanese kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko and written by Kazunori Itō , with special effects by Shinji Higuchi .
Noriaki Yuasa (湯浅 憲明, Yuasa Noriaki) (28 September 1933 – 14 June 2004) was a Japanese director.Yuasa was the main director of the Japanese film series Gamera, about a giant flying turtle that befriends small boys and battles giant monsters; he directed seven of the first eight films in the series while also providing special effects for one of them. [1]
Yukijirō Hotaru (螢雪次朗, Hotaru Yukijirō) is a Japanese actor. [1] He is best known for the role of Gonza Kurahashi in the Garo television franchise.. He has played Tsutomu Osako, a recurring role in the Heisei Gamera trilogy, along with the 2003 independent film GAMERA 4-TRUTH (), which was permitted by Tokuma Shoten under the condition to be free of charge. [2]