Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)

Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.

Director:

Noriaki Yuasa

Writer:

Niisan Takahashi (as Fumi Takahashi)

Stars:

Nobuhiro Kajima, Miyuki Akiyama, Christopher Murphy

Cast

Credited cast:
Nobuhiro Kajima	...	Akio
Miyuki Akiyama	...	Tomoko
Christopher Murphy	...	Tom (as Chrystopher Murphy)
Yûko Hamada	...	Kuniko (as Yuko Hamada)
Eiji Funakoshi	...	Dr. Shiga
Kon Ohmura	...	Officer Kondo (AKA: 'Kon-chan') (as Kon Ômura)
Hiroko Kai	...	Barbella
Reiko Kasahara	...	Florbella
Akira Natsuki	...	News Reporter
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Edith Hanson	...	Elza, Tom's mother

Storyline

Three children, two boys and a girl, stumble upon a flying saucer. The boys both step in without hesitating, and are whisked away to a planet in Earth's orbit but on the exact opposite side of the Sun. Inhabiting this planet are two women with Midwestern accents, who hypnotize the children to find they fantasize about milk, donuts, and Gamera, our favorite hero turtle. The women simply want to eat their brains. Back home, no one will believe the little girl's story of alien abduction, not even Officer Concha (pronounced "Cornjob"). Finally, Gamera rescues the children while fighting Guiron, a monster with a giant knife for a nose. Gamera kills Guiron while doing gymnastics on a parallel bar and takes the kids home, where the kids hope for peace, understanding, and the end of traffic accidents.

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Plot Keywords:

gamera | monster versus monster | kaiju | femme fatale | alien technology | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

21 March 1969 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Gamera vs. Guillon

Company Credits

Production Co:

Daiei Motion Picture Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The heads of aiko and tom were shaved at the beginning of filming and they wear wigs or hats during the rest of the movie.

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Goofs

There are already ripples in the water before Guiron jumps into it to engage Gamera.

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Quotes

Akio: Grownups have no dreams.

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Connections

Featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Guiron (1989)

User Reviews

Gamera rules!

'Attack of the Monsters' is quite a movie. Not only does it show off Gamera's great range of talents, but it is also the silliest giant monster movie I've ever seen, and oddly violent for a giant monster that is obviously intended for kids. Gamera: if you can hear me, you rule.

Akio (Nobuhiro Kajima), an idealist kid, dreams of finding a planet with no wars,traffic accidents, or long pants. He and Tom (Christopher Murphy) get whisked away by an empty UFO to the planet Terra, a planet that is exactly like Earth and conveniently shares Earth's orbit and is always on the opposite side of the sun to Earth. On Terra, they watch as a Gyaos turns up, only to get dismembered by Guiron (Terran for: 'Giant-Knife-Head-Monster').

Only two Terrans still live on the planet: Two space-babes with names so nice and pretty that these space-babes are obviously evil (apparently the rest of the population left to find a new planet, but we all know they died in a mass traffic accident). When the Terran women reveal that they must eat the kids brains in order to adapt to life on Earth, the kids are saved by Gamera, friend to children everywhere.

Gamera should have had a toy range based on this movie. He is the most multi-skilled monster in the universe! I can see it all now: Regular Gamera, Jet Propulsion Gamera, Ninja Gamera, Baseball Gamera, Airborne Gamera, Judo Gamera, Dancing Gamera, Gymnast Gamera, Aqua Gamera, and Gamera the Repair Monster. 'Attack of the Monsters' is a very silly movie - silly in the most funny ways. The poor special effects, the very basic dialog, the far out story, and Gamera's range of talents all make for some quality monster movie entertainment. Some of the monster mayhem seems rather brutal, even by regular monster movie standards (really, how many Godzilla films feature bloody dismemberment?), but my only complaint is the lack of Gamera's theme song in the 'Attack of the Monsters' version of the film. I want Gamera's theme song! I want it now!

Gamera rules. 'Attack of the Monsters' may be one of the most poorly produced movies you'll ever see, but it's great fun, and you know it.