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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
    1.8K
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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
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews59

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    5wag-3

    I've seen it after more than 30 years

    I was visiting this movie approximately in 1972, when communist allow us to see two or three Japanese "sci-fi" movies. In that time it has been for me something new, I've been a small boy, but I feel it is not good. But it has been from my lovely sci-fi section and now I bought a DVD and look at it with pleasure. There is so much mistakes... For example the rocket propulsion of that giant lizards, the fire from their mouths when they destroyed all military technology - tanks and aircraft, their bullet, bomb and rocket proof skin. The monsters can fly, walk and float under see, just one problem they have - they don't like high-frequency sound, so army can thrust their from the lake under Fuji. On the island, where from are the monsters are living the natives which are waiting tens generations for Japanese liberators, but almost all know the Japanese language! The end is beautiful and very sentimental - first and last time you can see a giant monster to cry:-)
    5kairingler

    gappa

    if you can get by the dubbing, and the sometimes missing of the translation of what was really meant to be said by the actors , then yeah this isn't really a bad movie at all, course i'm bias I love virtually all monster movies,, whether American , or Japanese. thought it was so ignorant of the man in charge for most of the movie not to return the "baby" gappa , meanwhile the mommy and daddy move closer towards Tokyo,, you will have to watch and see for yourself what happens next.. sure this isn't king kong or Godzilla but hey this really isn't a bad movie to watch. you just have to bear with it and try to follow along as best as you can that's all.
    5masercot

    Not Nearly as Bad as it Could Have Been

    My youngest picked this one out...after a couple of weeks of sitting through subtitled movies that he couldn't read through fast enough...

    He said, "Dad, I want a monster movie that will make me laugh" and laugh my seven year old did. It was a cute movie with a cute trio of monsters. Couple that with a high-powered business man who flies off the handle for absolutely no reason and you've got Japanese monster GOLD, baby! Look for the same special effects as in the early Godzilla movies and the same dead subplots...but, the quality of this picture makes it fun to watch and make fun of...for example, they are inside a cave...where does the light come from? The "night" shots obviously shot in broad noon with a filter. Hilarious!
    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.
    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

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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 International Pictures
      • Nikkatsu
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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