| 词条 | Gamera vs. Barugon |
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| name = Gamera vs. Barugon | image = Gamera vs barugon poster.gif | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | film name = | director = Shigeo Tanaka{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} | producer = Hidemasa Nagata{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} | writer = | screenplay = Nizo Takahashi{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} | story = | based on = | starring = {{plainlist|*Kyoko Enami
| narrator = | music = Chuji Kinoshita{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} | cinematography = Michio Takahashi{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} | editing = | studio = Daiei Film{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1966|4|17|Japan}} | runtime = 100 minutes{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} | country = Japan | language = | budget = | gross = }}{{nihongo|Gamera vs. Barugon|大怪獣決闘 ガメラ対バルゴン|Daikaijū kettō: Gamera tai Barugon}} ({{literal translation|Great Monster Duel: Gamera vs. Barugon}}) is a 1966 Japanese kaiju film directed by Shigeo Tanaka. It is the second entry in the Gamera film series and was released directly to television in the United States by American International Television.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} PlotSet six months after the events of The Giant Monster, a meteorite collides with the Z Plan rocket transporting the creature to Mars. Now free, Gamera returns to Earth and destroys Kurobe Dam in Japan. At the same time three mercenaries are sent by Kano, a World War II veteran, to an island in the South Pacific to retrieve a huge opal he once found and hid in a cave. Despite warnings from the local villagers, the trio find and locate the opal, but one dies from a fatal scorpion sting. The second man, Keisuke, Kano's younger brother, is betrayed by his fellow expeditioner Onodera and apparently killed in a cave-in. En route back to Japan, Onodera accidentally leaves the opal exposed to an infrared light. The heat incubates the opal - actually an egg - and a lizard eventually hatches. Growing to enormous size very quickly, the lizard destroys the ship and Kobe Harbor. Keisuke, having survived the cave-in, awakens in the care of the villagers. He then returns to Japan with a village girl called Karen, who refers to the lizard as Barugon. Barugon wreaks havoc in Osaka with its freeze-gas emitting tongue and stops the launching of the retaliative missiles with a rainbow-like ray emitted from seven spines on the middle of its back. Barugon encounters Gamera and the two battle, with Gamera eventually being frozen solid. In the meantime, while debating with Kano on how to recover the opal, which he still believes to be aboard the sunken ship, Onodera inadvertently blurts out that he killed his two companions and then murders both Kano and Kano's wife to cover up his crime. After finding Onodera, Keisuke and Karen subdue him and leave him tied up in his home. Keisuke and Karen travel to the Japanese defense ministry and suggest a plan using a huge diamond to lure Barugon into a lake to drown. The plan fails because the diamond's radiation proves to be not enough. Another attempt by irradiating the diamond with additional infrared radiation almost succeeds, until Onodera, having been released and informed of the diamond by his wife, steals the gem. Both he and the diamond, however, are immediately devoured by Barugon. Keisuke discovers that mirrors are not affected by Barugon's rainbow ray, so the military devises a plan to reflect its own rainbow emanation back at it with a giant mirror. Barugon is wounded by its own ray, but despite prompting it cannot be goaded into repeating its mistake. Gamera thaws out and attacks Barugon once again, and after a destructive battle it drowns Barugon in Lake Biwa, then flies away. Remorseful over the disaster his greed has caused, with his brothers now dead, and having found love with Karen, Keisuke decides to make a fresh start on the island where it all began. Cast
ProductionThe film features stock footage from the first Gamera film.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} Due to the commercial success of Gamera, the Giant Monster, the follow-up, Gamera vs. Barugon, had a expanded budget that Yuasa stated was 80,000,000 yen.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1998|p=74}} ReleaseGamera vs. Barugon was released in Japan on 17 April 1966.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} The film was never released theatrically in the United States.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} It was first shown in the United states by American International Television as War of the Monsters with an English-language dub supervised by Salvatore Billitteri.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} The film was reissued to television and home video by King Features Entertainment in 1987 as Gamera vs. Barugon, with a new dub conducted by Sandy Frank.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=433}} LegacyGamera vs. Barugon was one of the few films featured twice on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the first time as part of the initial KTMA series (episode 4) and again in Season 3 (episode 4), where the hosts commented on the awkward dialogue and Gamera's lack of screen time.[1]ReceptionIn a contemporary review, "Chie." of Variety reviewed the film in Tokyo, noting that the special effects in the film were not up to standards of Toho's Eiji Tsuburaya and that Gamera "did not have the winning appeal of the Toho stable 'Godzilla', 'Radon'{{sic}}, etc."[2] It should be noted that War of the Monsters was the last film in which Gamera deliberately committed a villainous act (i.e., the destruction of the dam at the beginning). However, with Gamera's defeat of Barugon in the end, Daiei Studios quickly re-imagined the character as a hero of sorts, defending Earth (and especially children) from various other monsters in the following films. This approach greatly increased Gamera's popularity, and his status as a kaiju cult-classic in his own right. Footnotes1. ^{{cite book |last1=Beaulieu |first1=Trace |last2=Chaplin |first2=Paul |last3=Jim Mallon |first3=Jim |last4=Murphy |first4=Kevin |last5=Nelson |first5=Michael J. |last6=Pehl |first6=Mary Jo |title=The Mystery Science Theater 3000 amazing Colossal Episode Guide |date=May 1996 |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=9780553377835|page=40}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=Variety's Film Reviews 1964-1967|volume=11|publisher=R. R. Bowker|ISBN=0-8352-2790-1|year=1983|at=There are no page numbers in this book. This entry is found under the header "April 27, 1966"}} References{{refbegin}}
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