Next up, chart the highs and lows of Toho’s Heisei Godzilla series and Yamato Takeru (1994). From there explore the bizarre history of Pulgasari (1985) shot in North Korea by a director kidnapped by Kim Jong-Il, then take a dip with the plesiosaur prop from Toho’s aborted Nessie movie used in Princess from the Moon (1987). See GAS HUMAN BEING NO.The New Revised and Expanded Edition reviews over 25 new films including Shin Godzilla (2016), Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)!From the First Edition: So, think you know all there is to know about the Heisei and Millennium Godzilla and Gamera films? Think you couldn’t possibly learn anything new about them? Think again, this sequel to The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies Vol 1: 1954-1980 picks up in 1984 covering not only The Return of Godzilla, but even the kaiju space whales of Sayonara Jupiter.
This exhaustive filmography analyzes and examines the changes made to over 50 Japanese monster movies exported to America. Or, if new actors weren't interjected into the films, they might be re-edited and re-scored like GIGANTIS, THE FIRE MONSTER (1959) or GHIDRAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1965). The same fate befell many other Japanese monster movies such as ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (1955) which became HALF HUMAN starring John Carradine (HOUSE OF DRACULA), and GAMERA (1965) which became GAMMERA, THE INVINCIBLE (1966) starring Brian Donlevy (QUARTERMASS 2). The most famous example of all will always be GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS! (1956) which removed nearly forty minutes of the original footage and replaced it with twenty minutes worth of new scenes starring Raymond Burr (PERRY MASON).
shores, the Japanese originals have rarely made it to America in their original forms. Since the very first dai kaiju eiga, GODZILLA (1954), made its way across the Pacific to U.S.
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