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Rating: 5.5 stars

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Japan satire Kaiju government summit folklore battle military president

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The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008)

Directed by Minoru Kawasaki

Science Fiction | Comedy

Overview

When heads of state gather at the G8 summit in Japan, Guilala—the intergalactic monster that had been banished from the earth in The X from Outer Space—returns to ravage the Japanese countryside and threaten the world leaders. Military strikes prove futile against the beast, but a reporter learns that one rural community possesses a strange ritual that might influence the creature. Minoru Kawasaki directs this campy satire.

Length 98 minutes

Actors

Natsuki Kato | Kazuki Kato | Hide Fukumoto | Akira Matsushita | Matabe Watabe | Jon Heese | Anatoli Krasnov | Inge Murata | Cristo Pietro | Roberto Colasanti | Wayne Doster | Ingo | Ziko Uchiyama | Ricaya Spooner | Dupy Robin | Nicholas Eriksson | Kouto Fujita | Kai Asano | Shutaro Yoshida | Setsu Ishiwa | Ryumaru Abe | Kei Akazawa | Yûko Shôji | Hikari Nagase | Haruka Inoue | Maiko Kawamura | Rei Natsumi | Emi Ohta | Yuuri Morishita | Minoru Kawasaki | Reijirô Katô | Seishi Kyo | 'Hurricane Ryu' Hariken | Yuichi Okada | Kon Arimura | Reipar Sato | Akiko Kobayashi | Masahiko Aoki | Yôichi Okamura | Daizo | Kazuki Kurosawa | Tomoki Matsubara | Naoya Ohshima | Yasuhisa Konishi | Shoken Kunimoto | Akitoshi Ohtaki | Kazuki Matsuda | Sho Sawakita | Takeshi Ishizaka | Naoki Nakamura | Yakan Nabe | Aja Matsuda | Kazuyoshi Sakai | Jun'ichi Inoue | Jun Miura | Lily Franky | Haruo Mizuno | Shunya Wazaki | Masami Horiuchi | Eiichi Kikuchi | Hirohisa Nakata | Bin Furuya | Susumu Kurobe | Yōsuke Natsuki | Takeshi Kitano

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Watching THE X FROM OUTER SPACE again at G-Fest really had me wanting to view this loose sequel again. I believe I watched this before THE X so I’m curious how this plays now. Did not realize Inge Murata is in this! Or Bin Furuya for that matter!

So maybe I enjoyed this a little more now that I have context for Guilala. Still rather tedious all the world leaders developing solutions to stop Guilala then failing. Tbh Natsuki Kato was mainly the one thing keeping invested; she’s fun and has a good story trying to resurrect Take-Majin to battle Guilala. 

The satire stuff just doesn’t work for me. Too one the nose dopey. Yeah we get it; all the rulers are fucking morons.

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