Son Of Godzilla (1967)

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Columbia TriStar Home Video released the film on DVD in 2004. Visually, the DVD is based on Toho's uncut international version, although the English titles and credits were digitally recreated. Neither of the Japanese and English audio tracks included on the disc had been officially heard in the U.S. before; the international English dub, originally recorded by Frontier Enterprises in Tokyo in the 1960s, had only been used in the UK prior to this. TriStar's rights to the film lapsed in the early 2010s and the DVD has since gone out of print. As a result, Son of Godzilla has become one of the most difficult and costly Godzilla films to obtain on Region 1 DVD, matched only by Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. A digital copy of the TriStar release (with the English audio track) can still be purchased through Vudu, an online content delivery network.

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Son of Godzilla (1967)In the unique world of giant monster movies, Son of Godzilla would be a 'tweener, not quite sophisticated enough for adults, but a bit too mature for children. It also exists in the gray period between the rampaging killer Godzilla of the 1960s and the goofy-ass protector of kids Godzilla of the 1970s. Son of Godzilla has a lot going for it, but it just came around at the wrong time to not be the eventual target of mockery and scorn. Son of Godzilla was released in Japan on December 16, 1967, and has shown up on various media since then in America and abroad. For this review I will be using a spectacular 2004 Columbia Tri-Star DVD, certainly one of the best presentations for a pre-1985 Godzilla movie I have yet seen. It's formatted in widescreen with rich vibrant color, truly impressive. I chose to watch it with the Japanese audio track and subtitles. As we Americans often changed the dialogue to suit our tastes, I always recommend watching these movies in the original language. It's 86 minutes long, but goes by fast.This was the second Godzilla movie directed by Jun Fukuda, and it's very similar to his Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster from 1966. The island setting, the secret base, the strange giant animals, even the sultry island babe, are all in both movies. This is not really a problem, but if you watch these two movies back-to-back, you might be annoyed at the similarities. And now on to our show...We open in a raging Pacific squall...what's with Toho and opening in storms It seems like half of these movies open this way, Godzilla vs. Mothra I and Godzilla 1985 just to name two. Here we see that a Japanese plane is flying through the edges of the storm. It's hard to see, but it looks like a commercial airliner or cargo plane. We go inside and hear the crew discussing the bad weather. Suddenly, they pick up some severe radio interference, strong enough to white out their instruments. What can brown do for youThe radio operator works his console and determines that the interference is coming from \"seven o'clock\". The navigator plots this on a map and comes up with...nothing. Well, there's an uninhabited island along that bearing, Sollgel Island, but surely that can't be it I laughed when I heard the oh-so-not-proper seven o'clock line, which should have been more along the lines of \"200 degrees\". They must be flying at wave-top level (which makes absolutely no sense in this situation as that would be courting death in a storm at night) because through the front windows they see the head and shoulders of Godzilla rearing up out of the rain. They pull up and escape any possible collision.Oh, that's fucking horrible.The crew watch as Godzilla plows through the waves, headed, they determine, for Sollgel Island. Strangely, Godzilla seems to be wading through knee-deep water, not swimming in the Pacific Ocean. Almost as if he were in a shallow pool in a studio backlot with a wind machine going... Godzilla is apparently much more bouyant than I would have imagined.From here we cut out to our fictional South Pacific island of Sollgel, where the entire rest of the movie will be set. Toho went to Guam to film this movie, and the thick lush jungles and open plains of that island make for some wonderful backgrounds. The scenes along the beaches and the rocky inlets are especially striking, making you want to sell your car and buy a one-way ticket to Guam. Despite what the pilots think, there are people on the island, a group of Japanese scientists.Sollgel Island.I'm going to cheat a bit here and tell you about our scientific team and what they're up to. This information is gradually released over the first third of the movie, but I think it would serve you better to know in advance. They're a United Nations scientific team, though composed entirely of Japanese scientists which makes the UN tag suspicious. They're here preparing to conduct a radical experiment to lower the temperature of this steaming jungle island to a level where it can be cultivated for corn and potatoes. The overall goal is as lofty as it is unattainable: to eliminate world hunger by devising a way to make inhospitable areas into farmland by changing the weather. I know, I know, you're saying, \"That's tampering with Mother Nature! These dudes are going to get squashed by the end of the movie!\" And I would agree if this were an American movie, but here these men will be our heroes and their seemingly-insane plan will in the end prove to be successful and save them all. A part of the camp.The team is led by Doctor Kusumi, played by 37-year old Tadao Takashima. A popular actor in the Toho system, Takashima might be best known for playing the reporter Susumu in 1963's Atragon and Doctor Kawaji in 1965's Frankenstein Conquerors the World. After Son of Godzilla, he would only appear in five more movies, perhaps a sign that this one sucked the joy of acting right out of his body and left him a hollow, lifeless shell. In our movie he plays the Respected and Focused Scientist With Noble Intentions. Despite being only 37, he looks 57, with graying hair and a regal bearing. He's always smoking a pipe and never looses either his cool or his control of the team, despite any situation. Doctor Kasumi.There are seven men here all together, though there are really just three of the team members who play more than background roles in the movie. They are Fujisaki, Morio and Furukawa. Fujisaki is played by Akihiko Hirata. Along with Kenji Sahara, Hirata is one of the most recognizable faces in Toho's stable of actors. In our movie he plays an upright honorable scientist with an endearing human side.Fujisaki.Morio is played by consummate bit part actor Kenji Sahara. In our movie he's a slightly irreverent scientist who gets more loose and likeable as the movie goes on.Morio.Furukawa is played by Yoshio Tsuchiya. Tusuchiya was one of Toho Studio's bright stars for a while, appearing in 82 movies over a 35-year span. Before Son of Godzilla, he was probably best known to genre fans for playing the helmeted leader of 1957's Earth Defense Force and the Devo alien leader in 1965's Godzilla vs. Monster Zero. Here he plays the requisite Dude On The Edge, who just wants to get off this hellhole island and go home. He's all nervous and twitchy, constantly complaining and snapping at everyone and at times posing a real danger to himself and others. Furukawa.The team's camp is impressive, with numerous small buildings built in a cleared area of the jungle. Many are probably newly-built by the film company, but they filmed a lot in existing buildings on Guam. I say this because in most of the interior shots, virtually all of signs and labels on machines are in English, which seems terribly out-of-place on an all-Japanese set. The buildings all carry identifying signs in Japanese and in English, \"Head Quarters\", \"Generator Room\", and curiously, \"Sonde-Equipping Room\". What's a Sonde [Editor Pam: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary says a \"sonde\" is a device for testing physical conditions, for instance at high altitudes, below the earth's surface, or inside the body. I guess they might need \"sondes\" for the work they're doing, but I'm not sure why they'd need an entire building for them, unless of course they have a lot of \"sondes.\"] Seriously, who edited this movieWe see that they too, like the plane, have been suffering from occasional radio interference. They think it's coming from somewhere on the island, but they're not sure. Then their radar screen picks up an incoming airplane. They all go outside to see who it is. Hmmm...hopefully someone is also trying to call them on the radio, wouldn't that make sense They say that it has to be a UN plane as no one else knows they're here.\"No sir, the Dominos guy hasn't arrived yet.\"But it's not a UN plane. At first I thought it was the same plane we saw at the beginning of the movie, but it's a different shape, much smaller. Whoever it is, the plane comes in. Flying over the island we see a single parachutist leap from the plane. The jumper floats down into a shallow low-tide beach. Two of the scientists run out to meet the man. This will prove to be Goro Maki, Intrepid Freelance Reporter and All-Around Hero Guy. Rushing out to meet the visitor.Goro Maki is played by 31-year old Akira Kubo. Kubo was one of those actors in the Toho system who always remained at a B level, despite an occasional good turn. By 1967 he had scored some minor successes in 1962's Gorath and 1963's Matango, and was the geeky inventor Teri in 1965's Godzilla vs. Monster Zero. Following our movie, he would be the dashing Captain Yamabe in 1968's Destroy All Monsters! before fading into bit part obscurity. In our movie he plays the Action Hero role, though in a curious and commendable twist, he usually defers to the girl Saeko (more later). Goro is a slightly goofy looking man, who also provides frequent co