Rating: NR
Genre: Horror
Release Date: 05/10/2005
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Japanese
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Tokyo Shock

Director Jerry A. Baerwitz created this uninspired, problematical monster story by using footage from a similar but different Japanese monster flic by Inoshira Honda (he who started off Godzilla and followed up with Rodan, Mothra, Monster Zero and more). Viewer opinion overwhelmingly sides with Honda's film. In this story, the Japanese and U.S. military are working together in the Pacific on a Japanese island with a salt water lake, trying out an experiment to desalinate the water. Their desalination technique wakes up a prehistoric monster, Baran, from the longest nap on record. Understandably piqued, the monster sets off to trample down Tokyo in revenge. Some audiences may feel that Baerwitz' treatment of the Japanese in this film should have set the monster against Hollywood.

~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Tsuruko Kobayashi - Anna
Clifford Kawada - Capt. Kishi

Production:
Jerry A. Baerwitz Ishiro Honda - Director
Jerry A. Baerwitz - Producer
Akira Ifukube - Composer
Ralph Cushman Jack Ruggiero - Editor
Shinichi Sekizawa Sid Harris - Screen Writer
Hajime Koizumi - Cinematographer
Jacques Marquette - Cinematographer
Robert Cowan - Makeup
Peter Zinner - Musical Direction/Supervision
Eiji Tsuburaya - Special Effects
Howard A. Anderson - Special Effects
Robert O'Dell - Costume Designer

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    1956
Gammera the Invincible
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War of the Monsters
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Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters
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