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Gammera the Invincible (1965)
Though he began life as a humble Godzilla rip-off in a land and time glutted with them, Gamera would come to symbolize everything that went so horribly wrong with the Golden Age of daikaiju cinema. But...
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Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
Looking back, Gamera’s rebirth was almost inevitable. History repeats itself and the movie industry eats its dead. Inspired by the success of the modern Godzilla films (beginning with 1984’s Godzilla...
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Gamera 2: Advent of Legion (1996)
A large meteor Falls to Earth near Sapporo Then the fun begins As far as director Shusuke Kaneko is concerned, “Gamera 2 focuses on the war aspect of giant monsters.” A “kaiju big battle” is, for once,...
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Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999)
Until 1995, Gamera was the joke: about as low as you could go in the land of Giant Monsters…unless you went to the real out-of-the-way backwaters, like Hong Kong, or South Korea. He was, at best, a...
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Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
Gamera vs. Barugon is the high point of the original Gamera franchise. After the (relative) success of Daikaiju Gamera, the far-sighted and responsible men of Daiei Studios could have carried on, as...
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Gamera vs. Gaos (1967)
Insert indigestion joke here. This is the exact midpoint of Gamera’s original (or “Showa Era”) film series. Not chronologically, or in any other terms material, but in terms of tone. This is the point...
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Our review of the (fourth) original Gamera film, wherein the series continues its downward slide into annoying kiddie entertainment that those same kids would grow up to champion, once they became...
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Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
Our review of the fifth Gamera film of the Showa Era. Better than the last one…that’s something, at least.
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Gamera vs. Jiger (1970)
“As you can see here, there’s a flaw built right into the heart of this series…” This, the sixth Gamera film, (released in the U.S. as Gamera vs. Monster X) is really the third part in a Pentalogy that...
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