The kaiju must battle! Srs Cinema has revealed a short official trailer for War of the Ninja Monsters: Jaron vs Goura, a homemade kaiju movie from Japanese filmmaker Shinpei Hayashiya. It's set for a Blu-ray release this summer from Srs Cinema - available to pre-order already on their site now. Hayashiya has been making super low budget, modern monster battle movies for years, also of the Reigo / Raiga / Ohga series (Reigo vs. Yamato and Raiga: The Monster from the Deep Sea) before this. The ninja monsters Jaron and Goura appear in the city of Chichibu, and rival ninja clans manipulate the ninja beasts into a fierce battle. The cast and crew includes suit actros Mizuho Yoshida and Akihiko Ohashi, cinematographer / VFX / editor Masayuki Nagata, composer Yasuhiro Ueda, monster designer Shinji Nishikawa, suit and prop makers Naofumi Kanamori and Tomohiro Matsumoto, and many others. This looks fun! I suppose the clunky...
- 4/29/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In the 1990s, the Heisei Godzilla films were the most successful and popular special effects projects in Japan at the time. Yet, a whole plethora of tokusatsu content was released during this decade. The King of the Monsters wouldn't be the only iconic character to be reimagined. Gamera would make a divine return after a long period in hibernation with Shusuke Kaneko's excellent “Heisei Gamera Trilogy.” Kamen Rider would see some unique renditions of him, such as Keita Amemiya's terrific movie “Kamen Rider Zo,” which celebrates the franchise while giving a more modernized spin on the material. Television would thrive with series like Chojin Sentai Jetman” and “Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.” Regarding Amemiya, he was prominently proactive during this period, both as a character designer and now as a filmmaker, even working on the two previously mentioned Super Sentai shows. His first picture, “Mirai Ninja,” would show what he could do regarding directing.
- 5/30/2023
- by Sean Barry
- AsianMoviePulse
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