ARCHIVE REVIEW OF THE CLASSIC JAPANESE MONSTER 'GAMERA'

<p><u></u></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0J9hSLZxo5a69Q6qtjfGYghnc2e7RgDQIvr3N5Wml_3gHSql1XPCmw4Sml5pDlG9vdRLdqPjxV7n0iY1PIPR0tzQ9e0Gl1x8PzH2vrbpWTeDq4P0aL-udjNVWRQs-dasAdcoVulfEQHBL5JcPa2IhH9XazPiEk5exjzqhknVbmFFPt8l4t4Z9IHdFEw=s1822" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="1822" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0J9hSLZxo5a69Q6qtjfGYghnc2e7RgDQIvr3N5Wml_3gHSql1XPCmw4Sml5pDlG9vdRLdqPjxV7n0iY1PIPR0tzQ9e0Gl1x8PzH2vrbpWTeDq4P0aL-udjNVWRQs-dasAdcoVulfEQHBL5JcPa2IhH9XazPiEk5exjzqhknVbmFFPt8l4t4Z9IHdFEw=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are so many versions of this giant turtle epic that it's hard to find the actual source: the real thing is obviously the version without the Americans thrown in, but what's patch-worked together is an intensely terrific man-in-monster-costume ride... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A side-story involving a kid who loves turtles provides more color than the rambling dialog of the scientists figuring a way to destroy a beast: who ferociously thrives on whatever weapon's thrown its way. But it's the savory battles, and the last ten minutes providing the much-mentioned "Plan" to finally rid of "Gammera" (the actual spelling) that makes the whole romp worthwhile. </p>

creature feature, japanese, monster, sixties

ARCHIVE REVIEW OF THE CLASSIC JAPANESE MONSTER 'GAMERA'

Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 There are so many versions of this giant turtle epic that it's hard to find the actual source: the real thi...

DECEMBER 7TH POST OF RICHARD FLEISCHER'S 'TORA! TORA! TORA!'

<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_i82NaEgwyNa6-o1iZqtF0K9HNcJypDbgsX-PEXs4Zrm73IPsRps3UFdLLlYxoKUc2wNk3mR9Y2jBmPTkjPNcSF5jtAqS9Wxtp1NKZQyzHSGVPPo_jjYLl5tp3kMM4pwHH497uAisERF/s1031/Screen+Shot+2020-12-07+at+12.06.41+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="885" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_i82NaEgwyNa6-o1iZqtF0K9HNcJypDbgsX-PEXs4Zrm73IPsRps3UFdLLlYxoKUc2wNk3mR9Y2jBmPTkjPNcSF5jtAqS9Wxtp1NKZQyzHSGVPPo_jjYLl5tp3kMM4pwHH497uAisERF/w344-h400/Screen+Shot+2020-12-07+at+12.06.41+AM.jpeg" width="344"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Tora! Tora! Tora! Year: 1970 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>American director/producer Richard Fleischer mans only half of TORA! TORA! TORA! centering before and during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, leaving the rest to the equal perspective of Japanese military leaders by Japanese filmmakers Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda, a device you wouldn't get about the German Leaders' side of World War II... </p><p></p><p>But what aspects really work made the movie fail at the box office: No big stars to outshine the subject matter along with rapid-fire subtitles, a non-dramatic, documentary realism and the true <i>main characters</i> are E.G. Marshall and Wesley Addy playing two Washington D.C. insiders using an early "fax machine" that provides enigmatic yet foreboding information, inserting a little espionage into the war genre... <br></p><p>While on the other side of the Pacific, Sô Yamamura plays Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto with far more empathy and prowess than Navy flakes Jason Robards and Martin Balsam as Generals Short and Kimmel: One demanding/commanding an extremely unwise location for all "parked" aircraft, the other ready for a cozy round of golf (exactly 79-years from today) on the fateful early morning of December 7th, 1941...</p><p>Taking up the action-packed third act with explosive widescreen glory mixed with cold and calculating reality like actually being there, though mostly as an<i> </i>impartial observer since there aren't any cliché movie-soldiers (like some naïve freckle-faced kid with a "girl back home" or the cynical cigar-chomping maverick he'd look up to): Unlike most other films on this subject, TORA! TORA! TORA! is about historical accuracy, not fictional history... <i>take that </i>Michael Bay!</p><p><span></span></p>

carl reindel, e.g. marshall, espionage, history, japanese, jason robards, martin balsam, richard fleischer, seventies, war, wesley addy, world war II

DECEMBER 7TH POST OF RICHARD FLEISCHER'S 'TORA! TORA! TORA!'

Title: Tora! Tora! Tora! Year: 1970 Rating: **** American director/producer Richard Fleischer mans only half of TORA! TORA! TORA! centering ...

MIKI SAEGUSA ERA GODZILLA ONE: GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFv7EzKX8yFUbQdP_dc7lBFhEcDaEmkolZuRya78y58M7Df6CeFlE14ExPRZTzN9O9PO2_YliO7qiIK5wyTudy1q9h9jqePdkoJSrQngjWCqy55QDGDgrEgWubXY6ce4G2ZWs4PFh2Lh5Y/s1600/35360787_492333504529164_1101265945822756864_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="938" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFv7EzKX8yFUbQdP_dc7lBFhEcDaEmkolZuRya78y58M7Df6CeFlE14ExPRZTzN9O9PO2_YliO7qiIK5wyTudy1q9h9jqePdkoJSrQngjWCqy55QDGDgrEgWubXY6ce4G2ZWs4PFh2Lh5Y/s400/35360787_492333504529164_1101265945822756864_n.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Megumi Odaka's Miki Saegusa sees inside of monsters YEAR: 1989 </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Strange that a movie about Godzilla fighting a giant plant with the head of a red rose would be one of the best of the entire franchise, dating back from the origins, but it's true... GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE is also the first of five co-starring Japanese starlet Megumi Odaka as Miki Saegusa,  bringing to light another miracle...<br> <br> That a young, cute, vulnerable and sympathetic Japanese girl (with upturned leafy ears giving her a unique koala bear pixie look), gifted with ESP, could actually read Godzilla's mind without it being too lame or corny: She's what Amy Irving is to THE FURY (think CARRIE with powers in check). And her four other "Heisei Godzilla" films (later distributed by Miramax on awesomely inexpensive blu rays) lasted throughout the entire 1990's...<br>

action, creature, disaster, eighties, godzilla, japanese, megumi odaka, science-fiction

MIKI SAEGUSA ERA GODZILLA ONE: GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE

Megumi Odaka's Miki Saegusa sees inside of monsters YEAR: 1989 Strange that a movie about Godzilla fighting a giant plant with the h...