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Gappa, le descendant de Godzilla

Original title: Daikyojû Gappa
  • 1967
  • 12
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
4.4/10
1.8K
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Gappa, le descendant de Godzilla (1967)
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Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.

  • Director
    • Hiroshi Noguchi
  • Writers
    • Iwao Yamazaki
    • Ryûzô Nakanishi
    • William Ross
  • Stars
    • Tamio Kawachi
    • Yôko Yamamoto
    • Yûji Odaka
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.4/10
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    • Director
      • Hiroshi Noguchi
    • Writers
      • Iwao Yamazaki
      • Ryûzô Nakanishi
      • William Ross
    • Stars
      • Tamio Kawachi
      • Yôko Yamamoto
      • Yûji Odaka
    • 59User reviews
    • 37Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Gappa the Triphibian Monsters
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    Tamio Kawachi
    Tamio Kawachi
    • Hiroshi Kurosaki
    Yôko Yamamoto
    • Itoko Koyanagi
    Yûji Odaka
    • Prof. Daize Tonooka
    • (as Yuji Kodaka)
    Kôji Wada
    Kôji Wada
    • Mashida
    Tatsuya Fuji
    Tatsuya Fuji
    • George Inoue
    Keisuke Inoue
    • President Funazu
    Zenji Yamada
    • Captain of the Kamome-maru
    Bumon Koto
    • Chieftain
    Kôtarô Sugie
    • Reporter #1
    Saburô Hiromatsu
    • Hosoda
    Binnosuke Nagao
    • Cmdr. Riku
    Masaru Kamiyama
    • Professor
    Kokan Katsura
    • Saburo Hayashi
    Shirô Oshimi
    • Oyama
    Yôko Ôyagi
    • Aihara
    • (as Yoko Oyagi)
    Sanpei Mine
    • Islander 1
    Takashi Koshiba
    • Reporter 2
    Kensuke Tamai
    • Islander 2
    • Director
      • Hiroshi Noguchi
    • Writers
      • Iwao Yamazaki
      • Ryûzô Nakanishi
      • William Ross
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    5ebiros2

    Nikkatsu Studio's attempt at a "Kaijyu" movie

    Nikkatsu Studio was one of the six largest movie studio in Japan at the time this movie was made, but due to the proliferation of TV sets, Japanese movie industry was in a steady economic decline. Kaijyu or giant monster movies were about the only franchise that were still making good money, and Nikkatsu made an attempt to jump in to this genre with this movie.

    A Japanese expedition to the south pacific island unwittingly stumble onto a newly hatched baby triphibian reptile which the natives call "Gappa", and brings it back to Japan. A greedy publishing magnate, and an amusement park promoter notices a good thing when he sees one and decides to display the baby at his park. This didn't sit well with the parents of the baby reptile, and they show up in Japan to claim their kid. Rest is stereotypical giant monster mayhem.

    This movie as far as I know is the only movie that features a complete family of giant monsters or "Kaijyu" ever to be shown together. It's also a first Triphibian monster that can walk, breathe underwater, and fly. The story is bit derivative where I can see little pieces off of Gorgo, Mothra, Godzilla, King Kong etc. and not very original, but the special effects in this movie is surprisingly good for a studio's first attempt. Gappa is not just an mindless monster, but actually seems to have intelligence behind their actions. This lowers the tension of the monster's character as an engine of destruction, and the movie carries on with bit of a bore, but the overall production is good, and ranks as an average giant monster movie. You get to see a very young Yoko Yamamoto playing the star in this movie. She's still acting after nearly 50 years since this movie was made, and amazingly, still beautiful in her roles.
    7haildevilman

    Gappa Gappa Hey!

    Long thought to be missing but.......here it is. (Apologies to the Ramones.)

    This was a late comer to the U.S. video ranks because its script was hard to change to make it more 'American.' Japanese satire would be lost on anyone without a significant knowledge of the country. Most would see this as just another dude in a rubber suit burning Tokyo again.

    The monster itself was a bit different. Like Godzilla and Rodan hybridized. The usual happens. Military comes...fails...but this guy knows the secret.

    I have a Japanese video copy. It's the original version. But the DVD release was necessary. And the racist tag line never existed.
    Camera-Obscura

    Monster from a Prehistoric Planet (Haruyasu Noguchi -Japan 1967)

    A group of intrepid explorers is sent on an expedition to find exotic animals (and people) for a new theme park to be built by a magazine tycoon who also happens to publishes Playmate Magazine. Soon, the group lands on an island in the South Pacific, where they discover an isolated tribe of natives who worship a mysterious God named Gappa. When the land is ruptured by an earthquake, the explorers come upon a cavern containing a reptilian egg. They take it back to a Japanese research center, where the creature hatches and is studied by a group of not too bright scientists. Unfortunately, the parental Gappas show up to claim their newborn lizard, trashing most of Tokyo in the process.

    I had a great time watching this piece of nonsense. Just about everything in this film is a complete riot. After a somewhat slow first half, the action is almost non-stop and there's plenty of stupendous dialog to keep you entertained. The production values consist mostly of hilariously cheap-looking scale models, the story and the acting are ridiculous and most of the characters are empty-headed idiots, especially for a group of scientists. The monster, Gappa, is a kind of bird-lizard, basically a ridiculous looking over-sized chicken. When it flies, it sounds like an airplane, but that's probably the result of a slip-up in the sound effects, because the creature gets attacked by fighter planes a couple of times.

    Made by the Nikkatsu Studios to make a late cash-in on the success of Godzilla- and many other monster movies and - what I understand - it was also meant as a kind of satire on the monster movie craze. Well, that aspect of the film was a bit lost on me, or probably got lost in time or translation, but then, I'm hardly an expert on Japanese old-school kaiju-flicks.

    Camera Obscura --- 6/10
    DrLenera

    OK semi-remake of Gorgo{1961},good monster fun for fans of the more juvenile Godzilla movies

    If you like the Japanese Godzilla movies of the 60s and {especially}the 70s made by Toho Studios, than you're probably like this effort, a not totally successful but fun attempt by Shockiku Studios to get in on the act.

    King Kong obviously inspired the early section of the film,but oddly enough the film mostly bases it's plot on the British 1961 monster movie Gorgo {itself a Godzilla imitation},with a baby monster captured by humans and it's angry parent wrecking havoc to get him back. However,unlike Gorgo's one vengeful parent,here we have both mum and dad monsters attacking poor Japan {one wonders why anyone still bothers to live there in these films,since it's always being destroyed by giant monster year after year}.

    The film lacks the polish of the Toho films,with the miniatures lacking in detail and some rather drab photography and poor editing. Music is mediocre although the two songs {only in the subtitled version}are memorable for the wrong reasons. However,the family Gappa are uniquely weird monsters,the action is pretty continuous after the first half an hour and the final reunion scene involving the monsters is touching. There are some amusing touches which gently mock the genre. Feminists be warned though-the end scene where the human heroine realises her role in life will probably offend you greatly!

    Hardly a classic of monster movies but silly and entertaining anyway. A good one to introduce young kids to the genre.
    5MovieWiz66

    Special Effects

    Just wanted to comment on some of the other statements made by people on this board. First,yes the special effects do not look like todays..but I for one like the pre-CGI effects. The special effects people had to be much more inventive and creative in the pre CGI days. This movie doesn't have the great effects of some of the old monster movies such as the Ray Harryhausen(which are better than any CGI in my opinion)features and the Godzilla films,but it still makes pretty good use of miniature sets. Great movie for young kids or us older people who still remember what it was like watching these films as a child. I love watching these movies for nostalgic purposes as well. Sure it can be cheesy to some..but if you watch these films in the context that they were meant to be viewed..they can be very entertaining and enjoyable.

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    • Trivia
      The main and end title music heard in the overseas releases of this film (for example, Monster from a Prehistoric Planet in the U.S.) were from an earlier film also scored by Seitaro Omori, the Nikkatsu teen drama/comedy film Youth Song (1959).
    • Goofs
      At 54:00 when airplanes attack the Gappas, for a brief moment during a view from an airplane target one can see where the fake sky backdrop ends and the movie studio beyond it.
    • Quotes

      President Funazu: Like it? I call it Playmate Land.

    • Alternate versions
      In all English-dubbed versions of the film, the rock and roll theme song titled "Great Giant Beast Gappa" (heard in both the opening credits and the ending of the original Japanese version of it) is replaced by standard orchestral music. Also, the Japanese version features a song titled "Keep Trying, Baby Gappa!" (heard in the scene at the end of the film where the male and female Gappas are reunited with their baby). In all English-dubbed versions, the song's vocals are cut and thus, it becomes an instrumental song.
    • Connections
      Edited into Red Dwarf: Meltdown (1991)
    • Soundtracks
      Daikyojû Gappa
      ("Great Giant Beast Gappa")

      Opening and Ending Theme (Japanese version only)

      Music by Masao Yoneyama

      Arrangement by Iwao Shigematsu

      Lyrics by Hikari Ichijô

      Performed by Katsuhiko Miki

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    • Release date
      • July 26, 1973 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Gappa the Triphibian Monster
    • Production companies
      • Manson Corporation
      • Nikkatsu
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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