Uchu kaijû Gamera (1980)

Director:

Noriaki Yuasa

Writer:

Nisan Takahashi (writer)

Release Date:

7 May 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Using several clips from previous Gamera entries, this film deals with alien forces sending all the...

Plot Keywords:

Gamera | Alien | Sequel | Self Sacrifice | Invasion

Cast

Mach Fumiake	...	Kilara
Yaeko Kojima	...	Marsha
Yoko Komatsu	...	Mitan
Keiko Kudo	...	Giruge
Koichi Maeda	...	Keiichi
Toshie Takada	...	Keiichi's Mother
Hiroji Hayshi
Makoto Ikeda
Kisao Tobita	...	Driver
Osamu Kobayashi	...	'Zanon' Captain (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yuzo Hayakawa	...	Policeman

Also Known As:

Gamera Super Monster (USA) (TV title)
Space Monster Gamera (literal English title)
Super Monster (International: English title)

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Company:

Daiei Studios

Trivia:

Gamera knocks over a billboard at one point in the film. The camera zooms into the billboard, revealing it to be an advertisement for a Godzilla film.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "Kamen Raidâ" (1971)

There are bad movies...and then there is Gamera Super Monster

This movie is the worst of the worst. Until recently, Gamera was the poor stepchild to Godzilla in most every aspect: Scripts, production values, special effects...you name it. And "Gamera: Super Monster" is the absolute nadir of the series and the genre of kaiju eiga.

Almost every (if not every) scene of Gamera is culled from stock footage from previous Gamera movies. The black and white footage of the first film is blended in with the color footage of the newer movies, and apparently no one is supposed to notice.

The linking story concerns a pirate spaceship named Zanon (which looks rather similar, if immensely cheaper to the Star Destroyer at the start of "Star Wars") and the attempts of three "space humans" to stop its plan for the conquest of the Earth. Whoever made this movie either watched Electra Woman & Dynagirl on "The Krofft Supershow", or saw some really BAD sentai, because the three women are very similar to either. One has a magic flying bus that is animated with effects right out of Saturday morning TV.

I can usually find something good to say about any movie...I mean, I love "Robot Monster" and I even sat through the horror that is "Highlander II" twice...but this movie is just plain awful.