Anyone a fan of Japanese Kaiju?

[cyphrx 0]

I just bought some subtitled japanese monster movies over the weekend and found out that a lot of this stuff is a lot better not dubbed. It's like a completely different movie when I watch them in japanese opposed to english dubbed.

 

One example is in Godzilla 1984 (in the US Godzilla 1985) where a russian sub captain is trying to stop a nuclear missile launch that accidentally went off. Where as in the american version the sub captain is depicted as this evil communist man going out of his way to launch the nuclear missile. I guess the cold war left a lot of bitterness. Also the movie is a lot better without Raymond Burr.

 

Anyway I was wondering if their were any other japanese kaiju (monster) movie fanatics out there?

[fredbroca 0]

Some of my friends are but I like Japanese anime better exspecily macross

[Turak 0]

I haven't watched too many Japanese films or anime...but a lot of my friends do and if it's as good as you say, maybe i should get interested.

[cyphrx 0]

Some of my friends are but I like Japanese anime better exspecily macross

I was really big fan of the original macross movie and series (well I guess Robotech.) Didn't like Macross II so much but was impressed with Macross Plus. I was wondering, I know that the original series has nothing to do with the movies. But do all these seperate movies have anything to do with each other? Or is it like a final fantasy take where it's the same world but new direction and new characters all the time.

Oh if you want to check out more about japanese live action films (kaiju etc...) here's a couple of websites to go to.

 

http://www.tohokingdom.com/

http://www.angelfire.com/ego/g_saga/index.html

http://www.dalekempire.com/KaijuFanOnLine.html

http://www.kaijuhq.org/index2.html

[A l t e r E g o 9]

I have mostly outgrown them but when I was a youngster, they were my favorite films. Son of Godzilla was my first and I was hooked from then on. Next to Godzilla, The Smog Monster is my all time favorite creature from the series.