Complete Gamera: Giant Monster Movies

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Every Movie Starring Japan’s Giant Turtle

Gamera is a giant monster—or kaiju—that starred in a series of Japanese films intended to compete with Toho’s Godzilla series. The enormous, fire-breathing, prehistoric turtle creature debuted in Daiei Film’s 1965 feature Gamera, the Giant Monster, eventually appearing in a dozen films.

In his debut, Gamera is presented as aggressive, though he eventually a child. As the series progressed, Gamera was presented in a more kindly role, becoming a protector of humanity, and especially children, from extraterrestrial races and other giant monsters. Eventually, five Gamera films were featured on the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Accented Cinema: How Gamera Beat Godzilla In The 1990s

In the beginning Gamera was always considered a cheap Godzilla knock-off, but that all changed in the 1990s…

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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