Having recently watched Pacific Rim and with the new Godzilla movie coming out this year I had a taste for some Kaiju action. So, I slipped the Gamera Trilogy into my player (Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion, and Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris). Some pretty entertaining stuff, if you're into Kaiju movies. ;)
You could make the argument that those are the greatest
Kaiju movies ever made. If you are a fan, read what you can on the director of those films. He wanted to do
Godzilla movies but Toho wouldn't let him. They gave him
Gamera instead. Of course when he knocked
Gamera out of the park, Toho green lighted his Godzilla project. While his
Godzilla movies are good, they are not as good as the
Gamera trilogy. A wasted opportunity IMHO. On the other hand, if not for him
Gamera would have joined
Trigrapa(sp?)
Gorgo(sp?) and
Vivran (sp?) as forgotten monster moves.
BTW do you have the original ADV release? The
Tiger Lily style redub is worth the price of admission alone. Hilarious!