Restored television broadcast version Promotional trailers Lecture from Keizo Murase, creature sculptor Audio commentary from Keizo Murase Region: 1 Audio: DD5.1/DD1
Rating: NR Genre: Horror Release Date: 05/10/2005 SubTitles: English Dubbed: Japanese Sound: DD5.1/DD1 Run Time: 87 Minutes Flags: Suitable for Children Distributor/Studio: Tokyo Shock
Director Jerry A. Baerwitz created this uninspired, problematical monster story by using footage from a similar but different Japanese monster flic by Inoshira Honda (he who started off Godzilla and followed up with Rodan, Mothra, Monster Zero and more). Viewer opinion overwhelmingly sides with Honda's film. In this story, the Japanese and U.S. military are working together in the Pacific on a Japanese island with a salt water lake, trying out an experiment to desalinate the water. Their desalination technique wakes up a prehistoric monster, Baran, from the longest nap on record. Understandably piqued, the monster sets off to trample down Tokyo in revenge. Some audiences may feel that Baerwitz' treatment of the Japanese in this film should have set the monster against Hollywood.
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