Gamera 3: Iris kakusei (1999)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1999
Running Times: 108 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Daiei Studios
Executive Producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Producers: Miyuki Nanri, Naoki Sato, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa

SCRIPT
Script: Kazunori Itô, Shusuke Kaneko

DIRECTION
Director: Shusuke Kaneko

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Junichi Tozawa
Lighting Assistant: Seiichirô Mieno

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Isao Tomita

MUSIC
Music: Kô Ôtani

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Director: Shinji Higuchi
Special Effects Assistant: Makoto Kamiya
Creature Designer: Mahiro Maeda

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Hajime Oikawa

CAST
Yukijiro Hotaru
Shinobu Nakayama
Ayako Fujitani
Hirotaro Honda
Shôji Kokami
Ai Maeda (Ayana)
Aki Maeda (young Ayana)
Yasunori Yuge

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION CAST
Alex Harder (voice of Kobayashi)

PLOT SUMMARY

Ayana discovers a large egg in a cave which hatches a small monster. Ayana opts to raise the creature, which she names Iris, and develops as psychic link with it. But as it grows to maturity, Gamera turns up and sees Iris as a threat. A massive battle is in the offing...

TIMELINE

1999
September
18: Canada – shown at the Toronto Film Festival

2000
February
4: South Korea – shown at the Seoul International Film Festival

August
2: Germany – shown at the München Fantasy Filmfest

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Gamera 3
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris - Canadian title
Gamera 3: The Awakening of Iris

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Daikaijû Gamera (1965)
Gamera daikaijû kuchu kessen (1995)
Gamera 2: Region shurai (1996)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Cinefantastique vol.31 no.7 (August 1999) p.60 (USA)
review (by Steve Biodrowski)

KEYWORDS

gamera, giant monsters, gyaos, kaiju eiga, revenge, sequels

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009