G-Force has come up with yet another robotic super-weapon to destroy Godzilla, who now hangs out on an island with his frog-headed adopted son. They also have a second plan to control the monster with telepathy. However, their plans change when an “evil” double of Godzilla, with crystals on its shoulders, flies from some distant
Little Ichiro is bullied by older kids, including one named Gabara. His escape is his dreams, where he sees himself chatting to Minya, the Son of Godzilla. (Pause: Think about that for a moment. The Son of Godzilla talks.) Minya is being beaten up by a monster who also happens to be named Gabara. By watching Godzilla defeat opponent after
Gojira (1954) A giant radioactive dinosaur named Gojira or Godzilla, depending on which side of the Pacific you live on, is disturbed by nuclear bomb tests and goes on a rampage through Tokyo. A love triangle between dashing sailor Ogata (Akira Takarada), beautiful Emiko (Momoko Kôchi), and the brilliant scientist Serizawa (Akihiko Hirata) complicates matters
A UFO causes a plane to crash in the mountains. The survivors (the abrupt co-pilot, a weak-willed stewardess, a corrupt politician, a ruthless arms dealer, his drunken wife, a young anarchist, an American war widow, an obsessed space scientist, an amoral psychologist, and an assassin) fall upon each other instead of working together. Things get worse
Commander Jack Rankin (Robert Horton) volunteers for a mission to destroy an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. But while planting the explosives, the team accidentally picks up a piece of alien slime which grows into deadly monsters when taken to the space station. Rankin must stop the slime, as well as deal with his
Years ago, a family of millionaires committed mass suicide by hanging. Now James (Jason Chang), brought up in England, has inherited a rotting, labyrinthine mansion. He settles in with his fiancée Yo (Terri Kwan), a successful dancer who is uncertain that a life with James will be fulfilling. The house proves to be a poor
Gang-Du is a lazy, dim-wit that works, occasionally, at his father’s riverside snack bar. His younger brother is an angry alcoholic and his sister is a weak-willed archery champion. The one success of the family is Gang-Du’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Hyun-Seo. On a day like any other, a giant mutated fish-salamander rises out of the river,
A series of interrelated vignettes of horrible deaths, Ju-On slowly reveals why ghosts are killing the living, and why it will never end. Quick Review: Ju-On is part of the Japanese new wave of horror started by Ringu. The films in the movement tend to be more frightening than almost any other movies, and also
Kibakichi (Ryuuji Harada), a yokai (beastman-demon) samurai, stumbles upon a village of yokai who masquerade as humans and feed off yakuza and other criminals who enter their gambling den. The residents have made a deal with some local humans: if they help the humans take over their clan, they will be given land where they can
Dr Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is summoned to a remote village to perform an autopsy as part of a murder investigation. The deeply superstitious and frightened populous is hostile to the doctor and his modern ways, relying on the local witch (Fabienne Dali) for safety from a force few are willing to speak of. Only
A nuclear sub crashes into an iceberg, freeing Godzilla, who heads to Tokyo. Meanwhile, a buffoonish pharmaceutical executive sends two agents to a tropical island where they discover King Kong. When Kong drugs himself on narcotic berry juice, the nitwits decide to bring him back to Japan (just assuming that the drug will keep him