Uchu kaijû Gamera (1980)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1980
Running Times: 92 mins
Format: colour     35mm     Daieiscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Daiei
Executive Producers: Masaichi Nagata, Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Producers: Hirozaki Ohba, Masaya Tokuyama, Shigeru Shinohara
Planner: Masaya Tokuyama

SCRIPT
Script: Nisan Takahashi

DIRECTION
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Assistant Director: Hiromi Munemoto

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Akira Kitazaki, Michio Takahashi, Akira Uehara
Lighting: Tadaaki Shimada

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Shoji Sekiguchi, Tatsuji Nakashizu, Zenko Miyazaki

MUSIC
Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
Song Performed By: Mach Fumiake (Love For Future)

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Kimio Tobita
Sound System: Westrex Recording System

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Chie Tshuchiya

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Directors: Kazufumi Fujii, Yuzo Kaneko, Noriaki Yuasa, Daiei Special Effects Department

VISUAL EFFECTS
Animated Scenes: Office Academy; Toei Animation Company

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Akira Inoue, Tomohisa Yano
Set Decorator: Nobuhisa Iwata

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Girl: Midori Kobayashi

CAST
Mach Fumiake (Kilara)
Yuzo Hayakawa (policeman)
Hiroji Hayshi
Kisao Hida
Makoto Ikeda
Osamu Kobayashi (voice of Zanon captain)
Yaeko Kojima (Marsha)
Yoko Komatsu (Mitan)
Keiko Kudo (Gilage)
Koichi Maeda (Keiichi)
Toshie Takasa (Keiichi's mother)

PLOT SUMMARY

A collection of clips from previous Gamera films that tell the story of an alien invasion using a menagerie of monsters to face the giant turtle in one last battle for the future of Earth.

AVAILABILITY

Australia
Video Distributors: Filmways Home Video

Japan
Theatrical Distributors: Shochiku Films Ltd

TIMELINE

1980
March
20: Japan – theatrical release

May
7: USA – theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Gameka – French Belgian title
Gameka et les 3 Super Women – French video title
Gamera Super Monster - US television title
Gamerak - French title
Phoenix Dominator – French Belgiian title
Rosvoalus Zanon - Finnish title
Supermonstruo - Spanish title

LINKS

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Daikaijû Gamera (1965)
Daikaijû kessen: Gamera tai Barugon (1966)
Gamera tai daikaijû Giron (1969)
Gamera tai Daimaju Jaiga (1970)
Gamera tai Gyaosu (1967)
Gamera tai Shinkai kaijû Jigura (1971)
Gamera tai uchu kaijû Bairasu (1968)
Ginga tetsudô Three-Nine (1979)
Uchu senkan Yamato (1977)

KEYWORDS

alien invasions, aliens, gamera, gyaos, sequels

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009