GAMERA:THE GIANT MONSTER

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• Release Year: 1965
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Science-Fiction
• Plot: Gamera The Giant Monster; ; During the height of the Cold War, East-West tensions lead to a nuclear disaster when a Soviet bomber is shot down over U.S. airspace in the Arctic! Massive radiation from the atomic explosion awakens an ancient, gargantuan creature -- a long-forgotten legend of the lost continent of Atlantis -- GAMERA! Unleashed from its glacial tomb and proving impervious to all man-made weapons, the colossal chelonian smashes a cataclysmic swath across the globe! Can the scientists of the world, led by Dr. Hidaka (Eiji Funakoshi, Fires On The Plain)., find a way to stop this invincible supermoster ... or is mankind doomed?; ; Directed by Noriaki Yuasa (who would oversee all eight of the original Gamera entries of the 1960s and 1970s) and created by the same studio that brought Zatoichi to the screen, Daiei's titanic terrapin become the one true rival to Toho's King Of The Monsters. Gamera was able to hold its own at the box office and secured a place in the hearts of kaiju eiga (Japanese monster movie) fans around the world.; ; Now, for the first time on DVD, Shout! Factory presents the original Japanese version of Gamera with new English subtitles and anamorphic widescreen from an all-new HD master created from vault elements!;
• Cast: Eiji Funakoshi, Harumi Kiritachi, Junichirô Yamashiko, Yoshiro Uchida, Michiko Sugata, Yoshirô Kitahara, Jun Hamamura, Kenji Ôyama, Munehiko Takada, Yoshio Yoshida, Jun Osanai, Daihachi Kita, Kazuo Mori, Kôji Fujiyama, Osamu Ôkawa, Ikuji Oka, Bokuzen Hidari, Fumiko Murata, Shigeru Katô, Jutarô Hojo, Daigo Inoue, Takehiko Goto, Chiduru Ko, Ryoko Oki, Kenichi Tani, Akira Shimizu, Yasuo Araki, Kenji Ohba, Ichigen Ohashi, Fujii Tatsushi, Yûji Moriya, Kenichiro Yamane, Tsutomu Nakata, Wakayo Matsumura, Misato Kawashima, Saburo Kurihara, Tetsuro Takeuchi, Shin Minatsu, Rin Sugimori, Shinichi Matsuyama, Toichiro Kagawa, Kyôsuke Shiho, Shunji Sayama, Ken Nakahara, Shigeo Hagiwara, Tetsu Furuya, Osamu Maruyama, Toshio Maki, Kazuo Sumida, Ichiro Ise, Shinji Sayama, Hajime Munechika, Tsukako Fujino, Richardson, Streihan, Ranson, Brown, Hartman, Noriaki Yuasa, Nisan Takahashi
• Director: Noriaki Yuasa
• Runtime: 1:18
• Company: Kadokawa Pictures, Inc., Daiei Co. Ltd., Shout Factory
• Media Format: Movie