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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 ...
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 .
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]
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]
Gamera vs. Viras; Gamera vs. Zigra; Gamera, the Giant Monster; Gamera: Guardian of the Universe; Gamera: Super Monster This page was last edited on 28 March 2024 ...
Gamera vs. Viras; Gamera vs. Zigra; Gamera, the Giant Monster; Gamera: Super Monster This page was last edited on 2 October 2024, at 23:13 (UTC). Text is available ...
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 .
Gamera vs. Viras was filmed at Daiei-Tokyo Studios. [1] The film is the fourth in the Gamera film series. [1] Daiei was in "financial trouble" at the beginning of 1968 and as a result cut the film's budget to ¥20 million, about $56,000 at the time. Footage from previous Gamera films was re-used in some parts of