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Rating: 6 stars

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All movies seen on 07/18/2015

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All Monsters Attack (1969)

Directed by Ishirō Honda

Fantasy | Crime | Adventure

Most recently watched by sensoria, Javitron

Overview

Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents’ constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed Gabara, his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.

Rated G | Length 70 minutes

Actors

Tomonori Yazaki | Hideyo Amamoto | Sachio Sakai | Kazuo Suzuki | Kenji Sahara | Machiko Naka | Shigeki Ishida | Midori Uchiyama | Yoshifumi Tajima | Chôtarô Tôgin | Yutaka Sada | Yutaka Nakayama | Ikio Sawamura | Haruo Nakajima | 'Little Man' Machan | Yû Sekita | Osman Yusuf | Hidemi Ito | Junichi Ito

Viewing History (seen 5 times)

Viewing Notes

Today Shout! Factory TV ran their Kaiju Movie Marathon event for 24 hours starting at midnight last night. It was hosted by August Ragone who intro’d each movie with some cool facts. Ultra Q and Ultra 7 episodes were also injected between the Godzilla movies. I caught a little of those as well as little of King of Monsters and Mothra vs Godzilla.

Came home after the Japan Day event to watch Monster Zero then this movie after it. Normally I wouldn’t bother watching these since I have access to them already via DVD and this one in particular is not a great movie however I enjoyed August’s intro in describing this as the best children’s movie that also happens to feature Godzilla and his foes. And that it’s still better than that “garbage fire” of Godzilla 1999. He’s right; I watched this movie way more than the other Godzilla movies during my childhood and I loved it.

So I watched this again as it lulled me into a nap by the final sequence with the criminals getting caught. This is when Godzilla turned from being malevolent and truly a hero for children. This may have been my first introduction to Godzilla for all I know. I know that this would be the first G movie I’d show my kids.

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