They also have The X From Outer Space (AKA Giant Space Monster Guilala), the only kaiju outing from one of Japan’s oldest major film studios, Shochiku, and the missing final piece of the sixties Monster Boom that I began writing about last year. I think of this as a public service, but not necessarily the kind that is mandated by the courts.įirst up, we’ll be checking out the Criterion Channel-home of film history, world cinema, mind-expanding arthouse classics, and a surprisingly robust collection of monster movies, including most of the Showa Godzilla films. There are so many streaming services available now, so much content awaiting to become someone’s treadmill background noise, and I hear you asking, “Yes, but what kind of monster movies are on these things?” I’m glad you brought it up, entirely hypothetical person, because I plan to find out on this here website! I’ll be using some of my New Creature Canon posts to explore the kind of monster-based content that is available to stream on all the less-than-major streaming services (because I already know how barren Netflix’s selection is), seeing who brings the most creature feature value. There’s also a few similarities between this and Ambassador Magma-specifically the structure and the pacing-and while I wouldn’t consider this on the same level as its contemporaries, it has plenty of peculiarities going for it. This particular sort of giant monster fantasy, The Black Stallion with more property damage, was likely taking off of the Gamera movies, but it’s even more central to this series-while I’ve never heard this show be named as an inspiration for later kids & monsters franchises like Pokemon or Digimon ( Gamera and the Ultra series are brought up regularly), it’s hard not to see the similarities. Monster Prince ( Kaiju Ouiji) aired twenty-six episodes from 19, putting it in the latter days of Japan’s Monster Boom (and alongside the much higher profile Ultraseven), and in keeping with the trends of the period, aims to appeal to its target demo even more directly by having a kid protagonist who commands their own kaiju. First on the agenda is a return to Japanese studio P Productions, who followed up previous Creature Canon subject Ambassador Magma/The Space Giantswith a series that is still just as youthful in spirit, but also very dino-centric. Acknowledgements & Dedications (p.We’ve now entered Dinovember, a month devoted entirely to those terrible lizards we all love.Selected Filmography: Key Japanese Films and International Releases (p.184) Collecting Eiji Tsuburaya by Mark Nagata 182) Eiji's Creations: 50 Years On by Norman England 176) Life with the Tsuburayas by Brad Warner 158) Working at the Family Store by Akira Tsuburaya 148) This is How Godzilla Was Born by Shogo Tomiyama Chapter 7: The Monsters' Last Hurrah (p.132) The Ultra Zone: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits by August Ragone Oh My! The Monster Boom of the 1960s by John Paul Cassidy 102) Eiji's Collaborators: Remembering Ishiro Honda Celebrating with Teruyoshi Nakano Riding with Jun Fukuda Roaring with Akira Ifukube by Guy Mariner Tucker
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