Ishiro
Honda's RODAN (Sora no daikaiju Radon, 1956) is among the most popular films from
the era of vintage science fiction cinema. A small village is besieged by
deadly man-eating insects. When Shigeru (Kenji Sahara) travels deep into a
mineshaft to exterminate the beasts, he makes an even more horrifying
discovery: Rodan, the flying monster! Two giant pterodactyls terrorize Japan, soaring
through the sky and blowing away cities with wing-whipped gusts. How will the
world survive this seemingly unstoppable threat?
WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira, 1966) is one of director Ishiro Honda's
masterpieces of monster mayhem.A deadly
giant terrorizes Japan,
sinking ships and attacking fishermen. Using a space-age ray cannon, the
military nearly kills the monster before its enormous brother comes to the
rescue. The two garganutas don't see eye-to-eye, and their monster-sized
sibling rivalry leads to a death match in the streets of Tokyo, with civilization hanging in the
balance.
2-DISC COLLECTOR’S
SET FEATURES
Uncut Japanese
version with English subtitles (First time on DVD)
English-dubbed U.S. version
Original
documentary “Bringing Godzilla Down to Size
Gojira Deluxe Collector’s Edition DVD
The Godzilla Collection DVD Box Set
Average Rating
Customer Reviews
War of the Gargantuas! I love this movie . . . But.
9/12/2008
Reviewed by:
Alfred Guy from Maryland, USA.
The Japanese transfer is poor. The U.S. version is bright and colorful. It is hard to enjoy the Japanese version. The scenes are so dark, you miss the action. Please fix this and offer to replace customers'' DVDs. I waited years to see the J-version, because it references Frankenstein Conquers the World. The movie was so dark, I just watched the U.S. version.
My two star rating is because of the poor J-transfer. If we had actually gotten two good transfers, this rating would be 5-Star!
