Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster

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GODZILLA -VS-SEA MONSTER.......2007-07-09

Godzilla -vs- sea monster was a very good godzilla monster movie. I enjoyed watching it.

Great Godzilla movie.......2007-03-11

One of the best Gozilla movies ever. I think Ebirah is so cool. I like the fighting scene with the rock.

Best OLD G movie.......2007-01-11

Hi, my name is Timothy and I am 10.This is the best old Godzilla movie.Even though Godzilla only fights Ebirah twice and both the fights are short(like Godzilla Vs Biollante),it is a great movie.Please buy this movie if you are reading this.Its the best G movie yet.And sorry i said on Godzilla Final Wars that it would be the last movie.Its actually the last movie for 10 years at least.

HI-DEF REMASTERING IS MIND BOGGELING.....GODZILLAS PSYCHEDELIC STAGE..................2006-12-07

Sony did an awesome remastering hi-def job on this Godzilla film. I have to say that as I watch this film I cant believe how clear the colors are and the hues, you'll notice it during the day time scenes. This Godzilla film is one of my favorite Godzilla movies of the 1960s. I like this film because it is kind of like watching Godzilla in his psychedelic 1960s stage. I guess that is because this film was released in 1966 in Japan the year before the summer of love 1967. The mothra twins make an appearence and supply thier flower power 1960s punch. Godzillas foe Ebirah a giant lobster is a whimpish but formidable foe but nothing like king kong 1962. The new dubbing is not good, and the music playing when Godzilla has the fight with the Red Bamboo jets is really stupid and at times embarrasing. There are no special features on this dvd, but it is worth buying as I said the remastering in high defintion is incredible. There were times watching this film I thought it was filmed a few years ago, not in 1966. Hats off to Sony the transfer of this film on this dvd edition is mind boggeling. Jun Fukuda directs this film and does a great job in place of the usual director of Godzilla films Inohiro Honda. Masaru Sato does an excellent job on the music score for this film. This film brought back alot of childhood memories...........Look out Red Bamboo, Godzilla is headed your way!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Godzilla fare........2006-11-04

I let my grandson (a fellow Godzilla fan) pick this one for us. Makes for a good use of a rainy afternoon along with some pizza.

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A decent move but not as good as the earlier movies
ODD, BIZARRE, PSYCHEDELIC, BUT FOR SOME REASON A TRULY ENJOYABLE GODZILLA FILM WITH A SERIOUS MESSAGE.................
What were they smoking?
smog
One of the BEST, but come on Sony release the AIP cut!!

Godzilla Vs Hedorah
Starring: Akira Yamauchi , Toshie Kimura , Hiroyuki Kawase , Keiko Mari , and Toshio Shiba
Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002V7OEM
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Customer Reviews:

A decent move but not as good as the earlier movies.......2007-05-08

In godzilla versus Hedorah the citizens of Japan a threatened by a new monster. A gigantic monster made out of sluge and waste chemical called Hedorah or hedra in the japanese version. Who like Destroyer has different forms its can turn into some smaller and weaker than others. In its final form it is a tower giant which emits gases that can scar flease and disolove all humands raims except there bones resulting instant death. He also ahs and acids that crods metal. He also was the first enemy Godizilla though that had any laser beam like weapons. Originally the monster Gigan when he was first created was capable of shout a laser from between his eyes but this power was never used in any of three godzilla movies he stared in. Can godzilla save earth from this vile creature of death and posion. This movie should be fine for kids thirteen in up due to high scifi violence, thematic elements and occasionally guersome images for a movie of its time when it was released back in mid 1969 or 1970 it was graphic. I also thought I'd inform you that the save the earth theme song for some reason I never figured out the save the earth Theme song was not Redubbed into english for the DVD realses. I also thought I'd inform you there are also two new godzila dvd come out on June 5, 2007 one is Ghidorah the three headed monster which up till now has been only avilable in the UHS in the use the other is new dvd verison of Astro Monster or Godzilla versus monster zero as it was renamed in the us which may have both the Japanese and english version of the movie included because that's what there doing for the Ghidorah dvd release. If you like this see the other godzilla films the only ones you might not want to see unless your a extreme godzilla phanatic our the son of Godzilla our Godzilla revenge which may seem to little kidish due to the lack of destruction of buildings and vehicles that was seen in the earlier movies and few brief occasional scenes of violence.

ODD, BIZARRE, PSYCHEDELIC, BUT FOR SOME REASON A TRULY ENJOYABLE GODZILLA FILM WITH A SERIOUS MESSAGE........................2007-02-04

A strange Godzilla movie. I saw "Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster" in the movies in 1972. The dubbing is not very good, but the high definition remastering is incredible despite some of the movies dark lighted scenes. The anomorphic widescreen presentation of this film is awesome. "Save The Earth" is not sung in english (RATS!!!!) as it is sung in Japanese, it does'nt matter as I know the words from my childhood days. Yoshimitsu Bano the director of Smog Monster would be directing this movie as it would be his last for Toho Pictures. Yoshimitsu Banno angered Toho studios so much because they wanted a child orientated Godzilla movie. What Banno gave them was a crying baby trapped in the Hedorahs deadly sludge, knowing full aware that the baby was eventually to die. Another disturbing scene was when Hedorah flies over some people they are incinerated and turn to bones. A crying cat in a night club was trapped in sludge as you were aware of its final outcome. The drug, pot smoking hippies were cool in their night club scene with their dancing to the Psychedelic lighted back drop. The thing that was really interesting and facinating was the animated explanations about the Hedorah and pollution. The music score by Riichiro Manabe for this movie was really cool and far out there. My favorite part of the music score was towards the end when Godzilla flies after Hedorah (the drum roll as Godzilla takes off and than the big horns and the organ rip as Godzilla catches up to Hedorah).
Toho was concerned about offending children with this Godzilla release due to some graphic scenes. No Godzilla movie before Smog Monster was ever as graphic and offensive as this one, and this was in my opinion Godzillas whimp stage in his movie career as Toho tried to make Godzilla more human like to appeal more to children. What a mistake that was, as I am not crazy about the Godzilla mask in this installment of the Godzilla films. If you look when Godzilla is wallowing in the mud pit that Hedorah dropped him in, you could see the Godzilla mask from "Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster 1966". This is definintly not one of my favorite Godzilla movies but I enjoyed this movie for it's message about pollution and its dark message of profit despite the pollution it creates. This same message (pollution) was used in Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1964) but clearly more visible in Smog Monster. I also enjoyed the creativity that went into the production of this movie. Yoshimitsu Banno presented a grim message about pollution and was banned from Toho pictures after "Godzilla Vs. Hedorah" but he really tackled a growing pollution problem in Japan at the time of this pictures production and release. There are no extra materials on this dvd release, but it is worth buying for the high definition widecreen presentation and clear sound. "Godzilla Vs. Hedorah" is embarassing at times, but an oddly, facinating, interesting Godzilla movie. Even Godzilla was a Hippie, HAA!!, HAA!!, HAA!!, HAA!!............

What were they smoking?.......2006-12-12

Godzilla vs Hedorah is insane even by later Godzilla standards, a surreal mix of monster mash, message movie, kiddie flick, 1960s educational shorts, groovy protest songs, go-go dancers wearing fish masks, terrible special effects and basic Sesame Street style animated inserts as Friend of the Earth Godzilla takes on a giant toxic flying tadpole that craps acid on him, drowns mah-jong players in excrement and farts deadly toxic fumes over the population of Japan. Introduced with a slide trombone theme straight out of a Laurel and Hardy get drunk comedy, Godzilla has never looked camper, mincing his way through his underpowered punchups with the allegorical scheissencritter - Hedorah is basically just a vertical turd with a tail and glowing red eyes. It's tempting to believe from the number of times Mr G wipes his nose that this was during the big feller's cocaine period, but he seems all too aware of the humiliation: at one point he even turns to the camera and shakes his head to the audience in disbelief.

As others have noted, for those who want to watch the film dubbed, the English soundtrack is one prepared by Toho rather than the one used for AIP's re-edited version of the film, Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster.

smog.......2006-09-07

this is my favorite of all the godzilla movies, it always has been. i remember seeing it at the drive in theater back in the 70s. it's way too much fun. i give it 1 star because when i read one of the other reviews that gave it one star i thought 'wow that guy hates the movie for all the reasons i like it', therefore i think one star is actually a very high compliment in this genre of movies.

One of the BEST, but come on Sony release the AIP cut!!.......2006-06-03

As much as some G-fans may call this the worst G-film ever, it is really one of the best. The film has absolutely no stock footage in it at all like other G flicks have. Ya, the part where Godzilla flies does kinda ruin it a bit but the film up until then is awesome, very good kaiju action, decent actors, funky music, and a little bit of horror. Most people don't know but this film was the only Godzilla flick that was put on rental shelves as a horror flick not a sci-fi flick for good reason. For small children(under 8) this is not a film they need to be seeing even though I saw it when I was 4.

Video: crisp remastered widescreen, absolutely fantastic.

Audio: wasn't able to test the 5.1 since I don't have a 5.1 system but the regular audio sounded pretty darn good.

Dubbing: Ok, my only problem with this version. Some reviewers either haven't seen the AIP cut or don't think there is a difference. There IS! This DVD has the horrible Toho International dubbing which at this time their dubbing was just bad, in later films they start doing a better job but here it's just horrid. The AIP cut sounds so much better, the voices fit much better and the "Save the Earth" song is translated! "True" kaiju fans will say just use the Japanese audio track, but I grew up on the AIP cut, and to have it ommitted and potentially cast into oblivion is just wrong.

Sony, please, please, please release the AIP cut with the remastered widescreen video!!!

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