Gamera (film)
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| Directed by | Noriaki Yuasa |
| Produced by | Hidemasa Nagata Yonejiro Saito Masaichi Nagata |
| Written by | Nisan Takahashi Yonejiro Saito |
| Starring | Eiji Funakoshi Harumi Kiritachi Junichirô Yamashita |
| Music by | Tadashi Yamauchi |
| Cinematography | Nobuo Munekawa |
| Edited by | Tatsuji Nakashizu |
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| Distributed by | Daiei Film Co., Ltd. |
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78 min. (Japanese) 86 min. (USA) |
| Country | Japan |
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Gamera the Giant Monster(大怪獣ガメラ Daikaijū Gamera?, Giant Monster Gamera) is a 1965 Japanese science fiction tokusatsu kaiju film featuring Gamera, produced and distributed by Daiei Film Co., Ltd. The film is directed by Noriaki Yuasa and stars Eiji Funakoshi, Harumi Kiritachi, and Junichiro Yamashita. It is the first film in the Gamera franchise and the first Gamera film in the Shōwa series. Gamera was initially created by Daiei to capitalize on the success of rival studio Toho's popular Godzilla films, and it, too, spawned its own franchise. It was released in the United States in 1966 as Gammera the Invincible and has been the subject of two different Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes.
In an icy North American region, an unknown aircraft is shot down by an American fighter jet. The aircraft crashes and its cargo, a low-level atomic bomb, explodes. The resulting cataclysm awakens a giant, prehistoric monster called "Gamera", who has the appearance of a giant turtle with large tusks. Japanese scientists on an expedition (including Dr. Hidaka, Kyoko, and Aoyagi) nearby are given a "devil stone" by an Eskimo chieftain, who explains that the creature is called Gamera.
Gamera destroys the American jet with his fireball and escapes into the sea. The monster heads to Japan and surfaces from Sagami Bay, where Toshio, a boy releasing his own pet turtle, sees him. Gamera destroys the city of Fujisawa and destroys a lighthouse. However, he also rescues Toshio from falling from that same lighthouse, and then retreats back into the sea. Scientists and government officials hold a conference to discuss killing the monster.
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