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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)

Directed by Shusuke Kaneko

Science Fiction | Action | Thriller

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Overview

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera’s ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.

Length 108 minutes

Actors

Ai Maeda | Shinobu Nakayama | Aki Maeda | Ayako Fujitani | Yu Koyama | Nozomi Ando | Ito Takahiro | Senri Yamazaki | Toru Tezuka | Yukijiro Hotaru | Hirotaro Honda | Kei Horie | Norito Yashima | Yûsuke Kawazu | Kunihiko Mitamura | Kazuko Katô | Nijiko Kiyokawa | Katsuhisa Namase | Aimi Takemura | Nikki Soraneko | Hiroyuki Watanabe | Hikaru Ijûin | Masahiro Noguchi | Tomoko Kawashima | Satoru Saitô | Toshie Negishi | Tamotsu Ishibashi | Shôji Kôkami | Rita Kosegawa | Takaya Kamikawa | Tsuyoshi Shimada | Kenjiro Ishimaru | Masahiko Tsugawa | Osamu Shigematsu | Katsuko Nishina | Takashi Nishina | Tarou Oumiya | Ikkei Watanabe | Hitoshi Kusano | Ryoko Ozawa | Mika Takanishi | Shinobu Matsumoto | Miyuki Komatsu | Nanako Kaneko | Hirofumi Fukuzawa | Akira Ohashi | Asumi Miwa | Tomorowo Taguchi | Yukie Nakama

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Hmm, wondering if this could also be horror?

I love how Gamera looks in this film. Makes me want a X-Plus figure of this one.

holy crap Asagi is portrayed by Ayako Fujitani who later goes on to star in MAN FROM RENO. OMG why did I not make this connection sooner. Fuck. Now I wanna see that movie again.

So I have this weird phenomenon regarding the Heisei Gamera trilogy. Firstly I love this trilogy and think it’s better than any three films in the Heisei Godzilla period (or Versus period of that time). Everything is just better; characters, story, visualization, stakes, etc. are better than the Godzilla films of the 90s, which run the gamut from fantasy to silly science fiction (time travel). Don’t get me wrong; I do love those heisei Godzilla movies but they just aren’t as good as the Gamera trilogy. So… the peculiarity I experience is that despite how ever many times I’ve seen these three movies (including on the big screen at G-Fest where they have my complete undivided attention), I can never remember much of anything about the movie.

This incident was most apparent during this viewing (granted the first half of the film I was bumping around my home organizing and packing hence the reason I had the dubbed version going) but b/c this is perhaps the best of the trilogy (the darkest for sure) I sat down the watch the later half. As I was watching I knew very well that I saw this on the big screen at Pickwick Theater a few years ago yet everything in that was happening seemed almost new to my eyes. As tho I hadn’t seen the film.

Had a similar experience with the previous two films the last few days when I put them on… I this isn’t a new revelation; I’ve recognized that for whatever reason I don’t retain what I’ve seen from these films. Wouldn’t bother me so but I’ve seen the first Gamera (Guardian of the Universe) at least a half dozen times by now. Yes, I can recall certain things like Gaos and the baseball stadium but not much else. And I’m not sure why.

Normally this wouldn’t bother me but why is it that I can recall nearly every beat of a film I’ve seen only once 5 years ago yet cannot remember / recall most of these Gamera films? And tbh these are the only films where I feel this occurs. I’ve reached a point where I want to write a review / critique on each one in hopes my mind will retain the story beats.

Huh. Maybe I will.

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