- EIJI TSUBURAYA MASTER OF MONSTERS REVIEW MOVIE
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- EIJI TSUBURAYA MASTER OF MONSTERS REVIEW TV
When Goro is arrested for stealing, the monkey follows him to the city and looks for him, picking up a police car and looking inside it before tossing it. The monkey had been a pet of Goro, a deaf-mute custodian at the facility, who then endeavors to gather enough fruit and cans of milk to keep the giant monkey from going hungry. The second episode involves a giant ape encountered in the woods near “Monkey Mountain,” who turns out to be a monkey who’d somehow ingested a formula from a local lab that had made him grow to King Kong proportions. Would that have ever happened in an American science fiction show from that period? It’s amazing how the miners, engineers, reporters, investigators and police all listen to the boy and take him seriously and follow his advice. There’s a nerdy local boy who uncovers the ancient legend which describes both monsters and figures out that the egg needs to be hatched in order to stop Gomess. (The monster suit used for Gomess is indeed a “repurposed” Godzilla suit with some interesting modifications.)Īlso discovered in the mine is a giant egg which soon hatches a Rodan-like giant bird which fights Gomess. Here, we see how mining activity disrupts the slumber of an ancient dinosaur-like creature called Gomess who emerges to wreak havoc.
EIJI TSUBURAYA MASTER OF MONSTERS REVIEW MOVIE
The first episode on the DVD tells a story very much like that of RODAN (1957), the first non-Godzilla giant monster movie produced by Toho (although eventually Rodan would be integrated into the Godzilla series).
EIJI TSUBURAYA MASTER OF MONSTERS REVIEW SERIES
I knew it was a rare find and purchased it, even though I didn’t know the name of the series and had to look it up when I got home. It jogged my memory of seeing mention of a series that had made use of the giant monster suits created for the Godzilla movies. What drew me to pick up the DVD was a picture on the DVD case of a giant ape resembling King Kong from KING KONG VS. Most of the monsters in “Ultra Q” were created in the time-honored Tsuburaya fashion of rubber suits worn by actors who then stomp around miniature sets. Tsuburaya was renowned for the special effects he’d created for every Godzilla movie up to that time, as well as many other giant monster and science fiction movies produced by Toho Pictures. The series was the brainchild of Japanese special effects genius Eiji Tsuburaya, who’d formed his own company to produce series for television. However, the emphasis on the visual aspects of the stories, rather than the scientific exposition, made them easy to follow and fun to watch, with only one episode offering an “explanation” that suffered without subtitles. I managed to find a DVD containing the first four episodes of this series and, like most Japanese pre-records I’ve picked up from Japanese video stores, it was in Japanese with no subtitles. The producers eventually settled on a handy formula that featured a trio of paranormal investigators (two male pilots and a female newspaper photographer) as regular characters confronting unusual monsters and other kinds of phenomena. It was called “Ultra Q” and its original aim was to be an anthology show telling different, unrelated stories about unnatural occurrences in a science fiction vein, in the style of “Twilight Zone” and “Outer Limits,” two American sci-fi shows that had become quite popular in Japan around this time.
EIJI TSUBURAYA MASTER OF MONSTERS REVIEW TV
Once upon a time, in 1966 to be exact, there was a weekly TV show in Japan that gave viewers a different giant monster in every episode.
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