Girara no gyakushû: Tôya-ko Samitto kikiippatsu (2008)

Director:

Minoru Kawasaki

Writer:

Masakazu Migita (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 July 2008 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

G8 Summit | 2000s | Japan | Summit | Hokkaido

Cast

Niclas Ericsson	...	British pilot
Lily Franky
Hide Fukumoto	...	Former Prime minister Shinzo Abe
Bin Furuya
Junichi Inoue
Natsuki Kato
Kazuki Katou
Eiichi Kikuchi
Takeshi Kitano	...	Take Monster (voice) (as Beat Takeshi)
Susumu Kurobe
Akira Matsushita	...	Former Prime minister Junzaburo Ohizumi
Jun Miura
Haruo Mizuno
Yuri Morishita
Yakan Nabe
Yosuke Natsuki
Matabee Watabe
Toshiya Wazaki

Also Known As:

Guilala no gyakushû: Tôya-ko Summit kikiippatsu (Japan) (alternative transliteration)
Guilala's Counterattack: Lake Toya Summit Crisis (International: English title) (literal title)
The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (International: English title)

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Japan:G

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company:

DefStar Records

Movie Connections:

Follows Uchu daikaijû Girara (1967)

smells like a teen spirit

From time to time i like to immerse on films like this. Those are the moments in which one enters a film for pure relaxation. I guess it's the same kind of spirit such filmmakers as Kawasaki put into creating this.

Some of these rides are actually very profitable, and i think it is a mistake to excuse every unconsidered element of a film just because it is a B-flick or because the budget was close to zero. Some great, intelligent work has been that over that.

Here we have a film made out of two elements: the will to freely play with known faces of the political scene these days, and the will to produce special effects that deliberately looking false and old-fashioned. I think this crew must have had a lot of fun making this, and in certain moments i too enjoyed being there. But it is the kind of fun a group of adolescents has making fun of an unlikable teacher or painting obscene messages on a wall. I'm OK with that, but something better could be put into this. It was nice to be watching a Power Rangers kind of fight so many years later, but 'nice' is not good.

You know what this is now. It's your choice to embrace it or not. I did it with some interest, but i won't do it again.

The pace is slow, cinematic rhythm was not also in the mind of these folks.

My opinion: 1/5

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