This is the third installment of Showa Gamera series. It features in my opinion the best looking rival of Gamera - namely Gyaos. In this movie, Gamera as friend of little kids also gets firmly established.
An ancient monster Gyaos awakes due to activity of Mt. Fuji. Gamera was sleeping near by and awakened by Gyaos' movement. In an effort to save a boy, Gamera challenges Gyaos. Gyaos can fire ultrasound from its mouth that slices through almost anything. Being cut by Gyaos' ultrasound, Gamera retreats to the ocean. Gyaos is carnivorous, and nocturnal. It flies out at night to eat humans. How will Gamera defeat Gyaos without being sliced by Gyaos' ultrasonic attack ?
Problem that existed in the previous Gamera movie is still present in this movie - namely poor integration of human related scenes with that of the monsters. Compared to Toho's Godzilla movies that teamwork between directors Ishiro Honda, and Eiji Tsuburaya was seamless, this movie suffers poor matching of human related part of the story with the part kaijyu appears.
Kojiro Hongo who've appeared in 1995 version of Gamera vs. Gyaos (Gamera Guardian of the Universe) is the star of this move.
This is probably the only Japanese movie that shows kaijyu eating humans.
If the story line involving humans were as good as the scenes containing the monsters, this movie would have been 10x better (which they did right with Gamera Guardan of the Universe). But out of all Showa Gamera series, this one is the most memorable because of the great antagonist kaijyu that appeared in this movie.
An ancient monster Gyaos awakes due to activity of Mt. Fuji. Gamera was sleeping near by and awakened by Gyaos' movement. In an effort to save a boy, Gamera challenges Gyaos. Gyaos can fire ultrasound from its mouth that slices through almost anything. Being cut by Gyaos' ultrasound, Gamera retreats to the ocean. Gyaos is carnivorous, and nocturnal. It flies out at night to eat humans. How will Gamera defeat Gyaos without being sliced by Gyaos' ultrasonic attack ?
Problem that existed in the previous Gamera movie is still present in this movie - namely poor integration of human related scenes with that of the monsters. Compared to Toho's Godzilla movies that teamwork between directors Ishiro Honda, and Eiji Tsuburaya was seamless, this movie suffers poor matching of human related part of the story with the part kaijyu appears.
Kojiro Hongo who've appeared in 1995 version of Gamera vs. Gyaos (Gamera Guardian of the Universe) is the star of this move.
This is probably the only Japanese movie that shows kaijyu eating humans.
If the story line involving humans were as good as the scenes containing the monsters, this movie would have been 10x better (which they did right with Gamera Guardan of the Universe). But out of all Showa Gamera series, this one is the most memorable because of the great antagonist kaijyu that appeared in this movie.