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Day of the Kaiju (2014)

Directed by Kazuhiro Nakagawa

Drama | Science Fiction | Short

Overview

One month after total offensive on the monster which suddenly appeared, the body drifted down to the beach in a local town. The marine biologist, Nagamine was summoned to research the body and eventually knew the mayor and the government officials were planning to build a storage facility covering the monsters body in the beach. Is the monster really dead? Nagamine had doubt. Considering to build the facility near town was too dangerous, he suggested to abort the plan Tangling of political axes to grid by the government and the local authority, Nagamine find himself to struggle to abort the plan with the town people.

Length 30 minutes

Actors

Satoshi Iwagô | Teruaki Matsuzawa | Terutoki Matsuzawa | Kôiku Misawa | Kôsuke Takaki | Katsuya Tanabe | Keiji Yamashita

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
08/27/2024ComputerStreamingVideo on Demand6.5 stars
07/12/2014Movie ScreenDigitalTheater6 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Revisited after seeing it at G-Fest XXI ten years ago. It’s amusing bc it predates SHIN GODZILLA with the same government dunderheaded approach to a beached kaiju. It’s good!

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