Welcome to Monster Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We deliver the goods with tonite's offering, movie two in director Shusuke Kaneko's awesome Gamera trilogy. Alternate title is GAMERA 2: ATTACK OF THE LEGION.
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The story starts a year after Gamera's battle with Gyaos, a weird cluster of meteorites crash-lands in Japan, followed by unexplained phenomenon and disasters. It finally becomes clear that Earth has been invaded by a colony of insect-like creatures from another world. These creatures, known as the Legion, begin to savage the countryside before Gamera enters the scene.
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Kô Ôtani composed the music, he worked on the entire GAMERA trilogy and GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK.
Letz bring our fuzzy little fiend and button pusher, that 7-eyed freek,
Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Ralphie has joined us so that we can get this show started. Eegah!! gave us a musical soundclip that celebrates Gamera's victory at the end of the film! So, push the big red 'GO' button there next to the bus stop,
now, Ralphie! Here's a cool tune from...
GAMERA '96!The Japanese really began to create some great music in the nineties, most notably in their anime series. COWBOY BEBOP is a good example, my favorite piece is the ending theme from OUTLAW STAR.
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After the strange meteors hit, creatures begin coming to the surface. This crowd on the subway are the first ones to encounter the things!
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Then, this giant unknown structure appears from under the earth!
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Some of the soldiers quote verses from the Bible, predicting the appearance of Gamera!!
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This movie's all about the monsters, but, there is this cute girl reporter we get to see from time to time.
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All Hell's starting to break out in Japan.
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Gamera takes a direct hit from the hideous thing from another world! The giant alien creature design is based on an actual giant crab species that inhabits the oceans surrounding Japan!
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Then, it unleashes a barrage of destruction on the city!
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The military responds to the location of the problem...
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Only to be completely annihilated!! Just look at that freakin' thing!
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Gamera recovers from injuries sustained in the battle and takes off to relocate it's nemesis!
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The special effects are absolutely stunning and totally amazing,
unbelievable!! Speaking of nemesis, the thing here looks like 1983 British Quality Comics' NEMESIS THE WARLOCK!
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These shots are plain awesome.
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Gamera knows what must be done, so, starts collecting electrical energy from the atmosphere...
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The power is concentrated within it's body cavity!
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Gamera turns the creature into ash with this intense blast!
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Portrait of a winner!
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Okay, now the kids join in!..
3 comments:
this is my favorite of the Heisei Gamera films, it's everything a giant Japanese monster movie should be!
WoW!
I never heard of this one!
It does look pretty cool!
Thanks!
I watched this again recently. Great movie! And the Blu-Ray is dirt cheap!
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