Themes Films about animals,
La fin du monde,
Kaiju films,
Films about magic and magicians,
Seafaring films,
Films about music and musicians,
La préhistoire,
Transport films,
Animaux préhistoriques,
Mise en scène d'une tortue,
Giant monster films,
Musical films,
Gamera,
Reptile,
Disaster films
Gamera vs. Barugon (大怪獣決闘 ガメラ対バルゴン, Daikaijū Kettō: Gamera Tai Barugon, Giant Monster Duel: Gamera Versus Barugon, released in the U.S. as War of the Monsters) is a 1966 daikaiju eiga (Japanese giant monster film) featuring the giant turtle Gamera produced and distributed by Daiei Motion Picture Company. The film is the second to feature Gamera. It was released straight to television in the United States by AIP-TV as War of the Monsters, and then later by Sandy Frank as Gamera vs. Barugon. It was one of five Gamera films to appear in the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. This is the only film of the Showa Gamera series that does not feature one or more preteen children as the main human charactersSynopsis
Set after the events of Gamera, a meteorite collides with the 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 WWII 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.
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