Gamera Super Monster (Popular Title)
Year of Release:	1980
Japanese Title:	Uchu kaijū Gamera
Also released as:	Gamera Super Monster (1980) (USA) Space Monster Gamera (1980) (literal English title) Super Monster (1980) (USA: TV title) Super Monster Gamera (1980)
Credits:	Directed by: Noriaki Yuasa Writing credits Nisan Takahashi Cast Mach Fumiake Yuzo Hayakawa Hiroji Hayshi Kisao Hida Makato Ikeda Osamu Kobayashi Yaeko Kojima Yoko Komatsu Keiko Kudo Koichi Maeda Toshie Takasa Reiko Tajima Producer Masaichi Nagata Hirozaki Ohba Shigeru Shinohara Yasuyoshi Tokuma Masaya Tokuyama Score Shunsuke Kikuchi Cinematography Akira Kitazaki Michio Takahashi Akira Uehara Art Direction Akira Inoue (III) Tomohisa Yano Set Decoration Nobuhisa Iwata Makeup Department Chie Tshuchiya Assistant Director Hiromi Munemoto Sound Kimio Tobita Special Effects Kazufumi Fujii Yuzo Kaneko Noriaki Yuasa Other crew Mach Fumiake Midori Kobayashi Zenko Miyazaki Tatsuji Nakashizu Shoji Sekigucchi Tadaaki Shimada Masaya Tokuyama
In danger of atack from aliens, a trio of nice alien women work to help Gamera prevent the aliens from a successful invasion. In a mass of stock footage from past films, Gamera again does battle with his foes to drive the aliens away.
You may have noticed that I use the Internet Movie Database for my cast and crew information. When I was gathering this information, I was shocked to see how much information that IMDB had on this film. Especially for what it is as a film. The only way that I've seen this film was a poorly copied VHS tape recorded from a TBS broadcast. I can't imagine how long ago that was. The film itself is the final entry in the Showa Gamera series. While the plot is loosely based on an alien invasion, but the most...interesting aspect is the team of alien super-heroines that are trying to save the Earth from the invaders. From what I could tell, the only Gamera footage that wasn't stock used a poorly-executed puppet. I hope some day to get a VHS or DVD copy of the Japanese DVD. I hear those are subtitled. From what I understand, this film is mostly stock footage because Daiei was already bankrupt and they wanted to try and get back on their feet. That didn't work. This was the last time anyone saw Gamera for at least 15 years!
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