Rival Japanese studio Daiei, in an effort to compete with Toho studios' Godzilla franchise, created Gamera, a giant prehistoric turtle that is jet-propelled and determined to destroy Japan, and anything else in its way. A young Japanese boy, obsessed with turtles, believes that Gamera is really his pet turtle grown gigantic, and decides to befriend him, after it seemed like it spared his life. The military and scientists are not so friendly however... Filmed in Black & White like the first two Godzilla pictures, film isn't bad, though the idea of a giant threatening turtle took some getting used to! First in an annual series of films that ran several years.
Review of Gamera: The Giant Monster
