Was nominated in The Golden Turkey Awards series for Most Ridiculous Monster.Originally, Kenny was Toshio, Katherine was Kyoko, Alex was Aoyagi, and Nora was Nobuyo. Several of the characters go by Western given names in the English dub.This is the only film in the series with Gamera as the antagonist.
This was the final kaiju movie to be filmed in black and white.This is the only film in the series in which Gamera does not fight another monster.This is the only film in the Gamera series that was filmed in black and white.A sequence with Gamera attacking two strippers in a nightclub was shot, but cut from the final finished version of the film.Jutaro Kitashiro as Self-Defense Force Commander.Alex and Katherine go off together and Kenny decides he is not sad, because he is going to be a scientist one day so he can visit Gamera on Mars. The worldwide announcement of success extols the triumph of science over ideology.
The next day, Z Plan is put into action: Gamera is lured into the nose cone of a giant rocket and launched on a one-way trip to Mars. Alex starts a bonfire and Gamera makes his way to a volcano erupting on the island. Gamera is lured to Oshima by lighting an oil slick path from Tokyo to the island, but an oncoming typhoon blows the fire out. Z Plan is finally completed and Kenny sneaks on board a ship delivering supplies to Oshima. They are both thrown from the train when it explodes, but are unharmed and Kenny is sent on his way. Kenny finds his way to the refinery and sneaks on board a train bound for Gamera, chased by the refinery chief. Hidaka has surmised that Gamera is gaining energy by consuming fires at the refinery and they will therefore keep shipping petroleum there by train to keep Gamera occupied for 24 hours. Z Plan is still not ready, so the scientists plan to keep Gamera at bay in the meantime by confining him to an oil refinery. Kenny and his family evacuate again, but he gets separated in the confusion. Before any action can be taken, however, Gamera arrives at Haneda Airport, destroying the control tower, and proceeds to wreak havoc in Tokyo (including destroying the Tokyo Tower). Hidaka claims that Gamera has caused these accidents because he is hiding in the bay.Īn international scientific conference is called and they decide to use "Z Plan", based at Oshima Island, involving a consortium of American, Soviet and Japanese scientists to eradicate Gamera. Meanwhile, disasters and accidents start to occur: Koto Ward is struck by flash floods and ships collide in Tokyo Bay. This leads the Japan Atomic Energy Commission to see an opportunity to use its nuclear stockpiles. Hidaka, meanwhile, has observed that Gamera consumes fossil fuels and may seek out atomic bombs for the energy they provide. Kenny explains to the professor that Gamera is lonely and, like regular turtles, he is not evil. Kenny and his family decide to stay with an uncle in Tokyo because they have nowhere else to go. However, Gamera then pulls in his head, limbs and tail into his shell, emits flames from his front leg and back leg cavities, and flies away by rising up into the air and spinning around like a flying saucer. Having thus been rendered helpless, it's merely a matter of waiting for him to die of starvation. The detonation causes him to fall on his back. So experimental freeze bombs are employed. Conventional weapons prove useless, and indeed it appears that Gamera feeds off the heat generated by such attacks. Scientists and government officials hold a conference to discuss killing the monster. However, he also rescues Kenny from falling from the lighthouse, and then retreats back into the sea. Gamera destroys the city of Fujisawa and a lighthouse. The monster heads to Japan and surfaces in Sagami Bay where Kenny, a boy releasing his own pet turtle on his father's orders, sees him. Hidaka, his daughter Katherine, and Alex, a reporter who was covering the expedition. On the way out, he destroys the research vessel that had transported the expedition, with the only survivors being Dr. Gamera destroys the American jet with his fire breath and escapes into the sea. Hidaka nearby are given a "devil stone" by an Inuit chieftain, who explains that the creature is called Gamera. Japanese scientists on an expedition led by Dr.
The resulting cataclysm awakens a prehistoric monster that has the appearance of a giant turtle with teeth and large tusks. The aircraft crashes and its cargo, a low-level atomic bomb, explodes. Enraged at being roused from such a sound sleep, he takes it out on Tokyo.In the Arctic, an unknown aircraft is shot down by an American jet fighter. RiffTrax Gammera the Invincible (Preview)-0Īn atomic explosion awakens Gammera-a giant, fire-breathing turtle monster-from his millions of years of hibernation.