Rodan/War of the Gargantuas
by Ishir? Honda
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Actor: Jun Tazaki, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, Nobuo Nakamura, Russ TamblynDirector: Ishir? Honda
Brand: GENIUS PRODUCTS INC
Writer: Ishir? Honda
Producer: Frank King
Writer: David Duncan
Writer: Ken Kuronuma
Writer: Reuben Bercovitch
Writer: Takeo Murata
Writer: Takeshi Kimura
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Classic Media
DVD Reviews of Rodan/War of the Gargantuas
DVD Review: Love the monsters!
Summary: 5 Stars
War of the Gargantuas is one of the best giant monster movies. Starts off with monsters and the monsters stay on the screen the whole movie. Somehow the plot keeps rolling along and there is mild love interest between girl and monster, and brotherly love turned cold between monsters. I love Godzilla, but so many of them are really stories about people dealing with Godzilla and he gets precious little screen time. This one is pure monster attack. Rodan is bonus. Much longer to get to the star of the show.DVD Review: Gotta love War of The Gargantuas
Summary: 4 Stars
I have always been a fan of the classic Japanese monster movies, but while I love Godzilla, Mothra etc., my all-time favorite was War Of The Gargantuas. I hadn't seen it in years, but I happended to stumble onto it at a store. It was really cool not only to see the dubbed version, but to see the original Japanese version as well. I never knew that War was a sequel to Frankenstein Conquers The World or that the Garagntuas had names (Green Gargantua is Gaira, Brown Gargantua is Sanda). I had always kind of thought that the Gargantuas were Toho's spin on the Yeti legend.
Anyway, if you love these kind of movies, War is the best. The tight costumes that the actors who portrayed Gaira and Sanda wore allowed them freedom of movement that you just don't see in the Godzilla movies. The fact that the eyes were cut out of the masks so that you can see the actor's eye movements gives the Gargantuas a really creepy feeling.
Gaira is awesome. He's mobile, agile and hostile! The laser attack on him was really well choreographed. Gaira's fight with the giant octopus and his sinking of an unfortunate fishing boat at the movie's start really got the ball rolling early. His preferred choices of snacks can give you a genuine chill that Godzilla doesn't. Plus, I really love his roar. Do any of you know how the filmmakers created Gaira's roar?
Botto line, if you are a fan of the 1960s Japanese monster movies, War of The Gargantuas is a must have for any collector.
DVD Review: TOTALLY BLOWN!
Summary: 1 Stars
War of the Gargantuas was released in widescreen in 1966. This dvd butchers the film by putting it out in pan and scan. Aren't we beyond pan and scan at this stage of movie releases. Homes are saturated with widescreen TVs and this crap is still going on. "Gargantuas" is a cool little film and much above others of this genre for the time period. Those of you raving about this release are either cluless or dont give a darn. The ONLY way to watch this film is in widescreen. It must also be the Japanese version as that highlights the soundtrack and properly references the Frankenstein dialogue. No way should Rodan have been put on the billing with "Gargantuas". Just a mess!DVD Review: Frank-Kong-Zilla!
Summary: 3 Stars
First let me say how odd this package is. Why package the horribly boring Rodan (that about sums up as much as I'll say about Rodan in this review) with War of the Gargantuas instead of bundling War of the Gargantuas with its true sister film titled "Frankenstein Conquers the World".
The real gem in this release is War of the Gargantuas. I can hear the voiceover for the trailer of Gargantuas: "From the director that brought you the original 1954 GODZILLA, 1962's KING KONG VERSUS GODZILLA, and 1968's DESTROY ALL MONSTERS comes...FURANKENSHUTAIN!
Franken - what!?
Remember, I'm not talking about Rodan and War of the Gargantuas; I'm talking about "Frankenstein Conquers the World" (1965) and "War of the Gargantuas" (1966). In Japan they had that kooky Furankenshutain name...roughly translated to Frankenstein. Sadly, Director Ishiro Honda died in 1993 so we won't be able to ask him how (or if) he ever got rights to use the Frankenstein franchise name for a series of two movies that don't really look or feel anything like the Frankenstein that we over here in the US know and love.
The only resemblance to Frankenstein in Honda's "Furankenshutain" movies is that the Gargantuas are indeed fuh-uh-uhg-ly, but they look much more like the King Kong that Honda created for the 1962 battle against Godzilla and later in 1967 for King Kong Escapes.
I remember vividly from my last viewing of War of the Gargantuas in my pre-teen years that it was a shocking G-rated film. There was a good Gargantua (the brown one) and a bad one (the green one...the fugliest of them all). And they were Godzilla-sized...not Frankenstein-sized. The green Gargantua bloodily, bone-crunchingly munches on people whole and spits out their bloody clothes. I'd like to see THAT try to get a G-rating today.
In War of the Gargantuas everyone thinks that there's only one murderous Gargantua. Until the brown one shows up at the scene of a crime and tries to stop the green one. The green one wants blood and refuses to live and let live, and the two Gargantuas fiercely battle through the rest of the movie.
Devo must have been a fan of this flick, because they did a remake of a featured song in War of the Gargantuas called "The Words Get Stuck in My Throat." At least I think that Devo's version was a tribute to the movie? Too bad a Gargantua didn't eat Devo back in the 70s.
Anyway, I'm sure that my subconscious, pre-teen mind is telling me that this flick is better (and more shocking) than it really was. But I'm glad to see that Gargantuas was finally released. Check out War of the Gargantuas. Skip Rodan.
DVD Review: A must have if you are a fan, but...
Summary: 4 Stars
Why Amazon does not carry this title anymore is a mystery. These are the definitive versions of these films. Please do not get ripped off by independent sellers of this film. This film can be bought direct from Classic Media on their website. classicmedia.tv
Description of Rodan/War of the Gargantuas
RODAN: Rodan, originally released in Japan in 1956 involves a giant monster being awoken from an ancient hibernation by human beings. In Rodan, miners digging far into the earth stumble across a clutch of giant, prehistoric insects which viciously attack several of the miners and prompt a government investigation into the matter. The giant bugs turn out to be little more than food for two gigantic flying beasts called Rodans, who hatch from giant eggs and proceed to terrorize the entire world. WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS: War of the Gargantuas, released in Japan in 1966 as "Frankenstein's Monsters: Sanda versus Gaira" and a semi-sequel to Frankenstein Conquers The World. It introduces two giant, hairy humanoids called Gargantuas, which spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's Monster from the previous film and are described as brothers. The Green Gargantua is violent and savage, preying upon human beings; as he lives in sea water, he is given the name Gaira for "stranger." The Brown Gargantua had been raised in captivity, and is docile and gentle; because he resides in the Japan Alps, he is called Sanda for "mountain". The film follows the investigation and military engagements of these creatures until their climatic confrontation in Tokyo.General DVDs
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