Kaiju Week in Review (May 21-27, 2023)

When Arrow Video rifled through Daiei's tokusatsu catalog a few years ago, The Whale God was one of the big omissions. I've heard that Kadokawa wouldn't let them have it for whatever reason. Sort of a Japanese Moby Dick, it's not really a kaiju movie, but between the Akira Ifukube score and a bunch of familiar faces (Takashi Shimura, Kojiro Hongo, Kyoko Enami, Koji Fujiyama) everyone just gives it a pass. Oh, and Shintaro Katsu—Zatoichi himself—plays the human villain.

Anyway, SRS Cinema got their hands on it. They wouldn't have been my first choice, or even my fifth, but it'll be nice to finally see the flick in HD.

After months of silence, Netflix busted out a Skull Island teaser. I'm not really sure what the hook for this one is, other than it being the first Monsterverse show and not subjecting us all to substandard 3DCG, but the new monsters look neat and the voice cast is stacked.

Biollante's Flower Beast Form has won Bandai's third You Choose! Toho Kaiju Sovfi Figure!, beating Desghidorah and Zilla in the final round. Hilariously, the results were revealed a couple days after the 25th anniversary of the TriStar Godzilla film. Expect the rose's Movie Monster Series figure on November 3... and at the rate Bandai is making new sculpts, I doubt the other two will be far behind.

Tokrev | Momoka Oshiro

Full Name: Momoka Oshiro

Age: 15

Gender: Female (Cis, She/Her)

Nationality: America

Ethnicity: Black/Japanese

Description:

Personality: Momoka is a kind and caring person. She goes out of her way to help others as much as she can whether it be simple tasks like chores or more complicated things like repairing something. She's also very loving and affectionate, liking physical touches such as hand holding and the like.

Momoka is very sensitive and doesn't know how to handle her emotions in stressful situations. Crying is her natural instinct whenever she feels extreme emotions (anger, joy, etc).

When it comes to things like sewing and fashion design, she's both innovative and creative. Her dad often jokes that she got that from her grandma.

Family:

Koji Oshiro: Father

Nicole Oshiro (nee King James): Mother

Ayame Oshiro (nee Oriyama): Grandma

Takahiro Oshiro: Grandpa; Deceased

Success or Failure Story: She learned how to crochet at 6 years old and by the time she was 7, she had crocheted her own quilt.

Speciality: Costume design & cosplay

Dream: To be a costume designer for a big production

Relations:

Satsumi Fujiyama: Friend

Miyoko Kazumiya: Friend

Hinata Tachibana: Friend

Emma Sano: Friend

Mimu: Pet

Voiceclaims:

English: Tatiana Gabrielle (Willow Park - The Owl House)

Japanese: Kaori Nazuka (Toru Hagakure/Invisible Girl - BNHA)

Paired with: Takashi Mitsuya

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I don’t know if Kōji Fujiyama has been killed in other kaiju movies, but in Gamera vs. Barugon and Return of Daimajin, he sure got it bad. His characters deserved terrible deaths too so these gifs are satisfying to look at lol

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Attack of the Giant Rainbow Monster (Gamera vs Barugon, 1966)

Remember how around the time Godzilla vs. Mothra came out, the series settled into what would become more or less the formula for the series? Well, Gamera only took one sequel to get there.

The first sequel for Daiei’s fledgling kaiju series, Gamera vs. Barugon is a bit of an aberration when compared with the rest of the big turtle’s 60s and 70s offerings. For one, there’s not a kid in sight. Well okay, there’s a few clutching their parents in an underground shelter, but an expy of the wretched Toshio from the last film is nowhere to be seen. Secondly, of all the Gamera movies, vs. Barugon is probably the only one that has something that can be called a plot.

Don’t get me wrong here, this is still a Gamera film. The monster suits are still pretty goofy looking, and the action is nowhere near even a mediocre Toho offering, but Gamera vs. Barugon is still a far more mature movie than its predecessor, and honestly quite a bit more mature than a lot of Toho’s plots. Well, kind of, anyway.

Quite a bit of this can likely be attributed to the new director for the project, Shiegeo Tanaka, who had been directing for Daiei since the 30s. Noriaki Yuasa stayed on as the special effects director, with Niisan Takahashi penning the script. Even though a lot of the old team is here, Tanaka clearly had a vision for this film, because it really is nothing like what came before or would come since.

The plot gets going almost immediately, with the rocket ship carrying Gamera getting blown up by a stray meteor, causing the angry turtle to go careening back to Earth on the hunt for energy, or so the narrator, who is apparently necessary for some reason, tells us. After a neat scene involving destruction of a dam, the real plot gets going.

A trio of treasure hunters, Hirata (Kojiro Hongo), Kawajiri (Yuzo Hayakawa), and Onodera (Koji Fujiyama) head off to New Guinea in search of a massive opal that Hirata’s disabled brother found there during WWII. The trio struggles to reach the cave that holds the opal, a journey that ends in Kawajiri’s untimely death by scorpion (that Onodera conveniently forgets to warn him about). Hirata finds the gem, after which Onodera steals it, causes a cave in, and escapes.

Onodera, like the despicable Nelson from Mothra, is a real son of a bitch who fits in well in the pantheon of kaiju villains you just love to hate. Using a heat lamp to cure a bad case of athlete’s foot on the ship home, he leaves the lamp trained on the opal by accident, which quickly hatches into a tiny lizard that, before long, has grown to gargantuan proportions.

Meet Gamera’s opponent, Barugon! No, not the floppy eared lovable burrower from that Toho film with Frankenstein in it, this is someone completely new, elevating this film beyond just an okay kaiju movie into something really special.

Yep, that’s our boy. While Gamera has always looked a bit stupid and dare I say it, cheap, Barugon is on a whole other level, with chintzy looking skin, giant doll eyes, and a habit of shooting deadly rainbows out of his back (no, I’m not kidding). I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention his extendable tongue that shoots out freezing gas, or his absolutely ear-grating roar. Setting a trend for Gamera’s rogues gallery, Barugon feels like Homer Simpson’s makeup shotgun in kaiju form, with a whole bunch of ideas mashed together regardless of how ridiculous they sound or if they even make sense.

So of course, Gamera shows up so the two of them can duke it out in a bloody spectacle, something that will quickly become commonplace in the series, until Gamera gets frozen and taken out of commission for the rest of the movie. The fight itself is fairly lacking, more reminiscent of a couple of guys in rubber suits kind of whacking at each other and lumbering around, but Tanaka’s direction lends both this fight and the finale with some gravitas as the two square off in the burned out ruins of Kobe. This is the best cinematography you're going to get out of a Gamera film until the 90s, so you'd better enjoy it.

After that we get the requisite scenes of the military trying to stop Barugon and failing, though at the very least Onodera gets his in a truly satisfying end. I won’t get into the really hokey stuff, like the military’s plan to use a giant mirror to reflect Barugon’s rainbow of death back at him, or the big monster’s strange penchant for diamonds, but sufficed to say that it doesn’t end up mattering too much, because Gamera shows up to finish the job in a particularly brutal fashion.

Honestly though, I could almost say I enjoyed the adventure story of the quest for the opal rather than the big monster fights that make up the second half of the film. The actors all do a good job playing their characters, and the plot is easy enough to follow that it leaves you feeling invested in Hirata’s quest to get justice on Onodera, and to its credit the film manages to still fit their story in once the kaiju start stomping around.

All in all, if you’re going to watch one Gamera film from this era, make it this one.

Walking My Life 2007 A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year.

A recent study, published on the National Center for Biotechnology Information website, compares the differences in pain levels for patients treated with Invisalign vs. other appliances. Over the course of weeks, the team found that Invisalign caused less discomfort at every stage compared to traditional corrective appliances.

Establishing the Scope of the Study

Koji Fujiyama, Tadashi Honjo, Makoto Suzuki, Shinya Matsuoka, and Toru Deguchi were all on the team that conducted the 2014 study. Their investigation covered a total of 145 cases, which they split into an Invisalign group and a group using both Invisalign and edgewise appliances.

Assessing Pain Levels

The team evaluated each patient’s pain levels using a visual analog scale (VAS). Evaluation took place in stages. The first evaluation occurred within 7 days after treatment; the second between 14 and 21 days afterward; and the third between 28 and 35 days after treatment. A final evaluation occurred after the completion of the treatment.

Categorising the Pain

The researchers took their analysis a step further and diagnosed the source of the pain that each patient experienced. One category of pain was due to missing material or a rough marginal ridge. Another category consisted of pain caused by the deformation of an attachment or other part; and the final category involved misshapen or deformed Invisalign trays.

Recommending Invisalign as a More Comfortable Option

By the end of the process, the researchers discovered that the patients who used Invisalign alone suffered much less pain than their counterparts in the study, the ones using appliances with or without Invisalign.

All of the patients experienced the most pain and discomfort directly after being treated. This is normal, since the first 24-48 hours are the most traumatic for the teeth as they begin to shift into their new position. Although the discomfort is unavoidable, you can alleviate the pain by taking regular pain relievers. Talk to your dentist in Singapore if you think you are experiencing too much pain, or if you notice a rough spot on the edge of your aligner that is irritating your mouth.

The situations in which an Invisalign patient was in more pain occurred when the tray itself was deformed somehow. This kind of issue is easily avoided as long as your Singapore dentist checks your clear aligners to ensure the correct shape and formation. Overall, when both types of treatment were correctly applied, the edgewise appliances caused much more pronounced and long-lasting pain than the Invisalign trays.

Discovering Invisalign Yourself

If you’re interested in a corrective dental solution that doesn’t cause much discomfort but yields excellent results, talk to the experts at Orchard Scotts Dental. We are a recommended Invisalign provider in Singapore, and we can explain all the aspects of Invisalign treatment. If you are dedicated to improving your smile and you can handle your oral hygiene and aligner care responsibly, you may be an ideal candidate for Invisalign. Contact Orchard Scotts Dental today, and our friendly staff will be happy to arrange an evaluation and consultation. Before long, you’ll be on your way to a new, more beautiful smile.

Source: PubMed Central, 22 November, 2014

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30 Days of Gamera Day #12: Who’s your favourite human enemy/villain? ONODERA!! It takes a special kind of bastard to tell a man you've kind his brother, beat him to a pulp with his own crutch, collapse a cabinet on his fragile, broken body, and then as a finishing touch, steal from his wallet. Add to that a good few other irredeemable acts - such as letting a man die from a scorpion bite that could have been easily prevented - and Onodera is that bastard. Clearly a graduate from the Clark Nelson School of Villainy, Onodera is the stand-out villain of the entire Gamera series. Not a corrupt military official, a scheming government agent, or a sinister shadowy figure by any means, Onodera is that most frightening of villains - a relatively ordinary man driven to extreme means, manic with intense, hungry greed. I remember watching Gamera vs. Barugon at the Pickwick Theatre during G-Fest XXI last year, and it was a fabulous atmosphere as the crowd roared with pleasure when Onodera finally received his comeuppance at the hands of Barugon. Actor Koji Fujiyama had a good few roles in the Showa Gamera series, but none as well-written (or performed), nor as subjectively satisfying to watch, as the slimy Onodera.