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Brandon Tenold

2y↑210

Introducing the latest kaiju sensation: Dogora!

John T. Lyon

Dogora, shmogora! Why doncha do " The H Man?"

Bruce Snow

2y↑1

the x from outer space

Bruce Snow

Dogora is about as popular like guilala

ROBERTO MONTINI

Gamera movies 1995-1996
Godzilla 2000

Kurt Langberg

Have you heard of Spaced Invaders? It stars your favorite "crazy old coot" actor, Royal Dano!

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Matthew Walton

2y↑152

Honestly the scenes of Dogora floating down out of the dark clouds made me think of something Lovecraftian.

ZillaTheTegu

2y↑12

I was going to say the same thing. The monster scenes are very Eldritch creature from the sky kinda stuff.

LongLiveTheSheet

2y↑332

Honestly I could see Dogora being really eerie if it was in a film that maintained a stronger and more consistent atmosphere of dread

Chandra Pandhita

2y↑2

Agreed. This imagery 13:30 is pretty creepy for me. Imagine stepping out of your house just to see THAT.

Unfortunately this movie were focusibg on making espionage, blood diamonds and whatnot as segway 😂

Raymond St Paul

2y↑1

Agree it make a good movie if the comedy were removed for a more serious film.

Daniel Sausaman

2y↑2

I feel like this movie can use as drinking a shot each time someone the Diamonds type of thing ,,

LongLiveTheSheet

2y↑2

@Nate K Phelous memes

Nate K

2y↑2

@Distracted Globe Productions ?

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Anthony Hudak

2y↑154

Don't just hate it when you put so much time and planning into a diamond heist, only for them to get sucked up into the sky by a giant space jellyfish?

obsidian179

2y↑8

Man, if I had a dollar for every time that’s happened…

Jade Dinosaur

2y↑159

The monster in this is usually cited as an example of what an atmospheric beast might look like. That’s the theory that our atmosphere, much like our oceans and forests, represents it’s own biome, full of unique and undiscovered life forms. Definitely fringe, but I think it’s interesting. 🤔

Agente Polaris

One of those the rarest cryptids

Nicholas Lienandjaja

2y↑3

That idea should be included if Dogora comes to the MonsterVerse.

Patrick LaPointe

2y↑2

Maybe on a gas giant!

Marinus van Zyl

2y↑5

Well, considering that the very AIR around you might have microscopic "life" that you can't see with your limited human vision, it's not THAT far out a story to tell. Also, several scifi stories have already played with the idea of "lifeforms" in places you don't expect them, plus there's a YouTube short of an alien whale taking the fight to whale hunters in a hover craft above some clouds. :)

Jorah The Explorer

2y↑10

Conan-Doyle wrote a short story called “Horror in the Heights” with this very premise

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Ryan McCarthy

2y↑75

It's weird to have a movie where the giant factory eating space amoeba thing is really more of a B-plot then anything else.

🤎the kiryu saga🤎

Yea

wstine79

2y↑48

"DOGORA" is probably so obscure that TOHO will not recognize it and won't flag Brandon tenold for using the footage. Then again, it is TOHO.

Bendy and Mace DeMarco

1y↑1

If that’s the case he’s probably gonna get flagged by Marvel for showing Thor footage.

Mazingersaurus88

2y↑5

I mean Daigoro vs. Goliath is a Toho film and it's been on YouTube in full for over 7 years

No joke its still there and not even Toho has bothered to demontize it

Godzillafan9000

2y↑7

This comment has been flagged by Toho

From The Cheap Seats

2y↑4

I’m afraid you’re mistaken.

The Sexy Batman

2y↑68

Of all the pictures Brandon could've used to describe tentacle hentai, he choose To Love Ru. Truly a man of the highest culture.

Nine_Tails137

@Another Hibiki IMO, Ichika Orimura from Infinite Stratos is worse.
Then again one is a coward, while the other is oblivious. So both could rival each other as worst harem leads.

PeteTheGrouch

2y↑3

@Another Hibiki Then again, that easily describes about 90% of harem protags...

Andrew W.C.

2y↑6

Thanks for the sauce.

Another Hibiki

2y↑9

it takes someone really cultured to endure a anime with such a bad protagonist.

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GoGojiraGo

2y↑74

At least Dogora got to appear in the NES game "Godzilla: Monster of Monsters" as one of the two sub-bosses of the Subspace tiles, where you have to fight a nest that spawns them until you defeat it.

Gabriel Boorom

2y↑9

password theme intensifies

BIGJXXX

2y↑2

right

John DeLye

2y↑54

This movie was also referenced in an episode of Sanford and Son by Fred.
"Ya know,the Japanese monster movie about a monster that eats diamonds!"

Mazingersaurus88

2y↑8

Fred Sanford was always cultured

Christopher Wall

2y↑9

Fred's love of kaiju movies will always be one of my personal favorite running gags on that show.

BIGJXXX

2y↑2

lol

maxsmodels

2y↑68

The 'space fireflies' comment was probably a reference to the recently reported 'fireflies' which astronaut John Glenn reported outside of his Mercury capsule. They later turned out to be ice particles breaking off of the capsule.

LoganHunter82

2y↑9

Or were they?? *Dun-Dun-Duuuun*

Prehistoric Gaming

2y↑81

Dogora is such an underrated monster! And honestly, He Should've appeared in One of the Toho Godzilla Movies.

Philip Monihan

2y↑2

@John Doe Oh, yes. The police are finally convinced Dogora is real when it flies into the professor's office and melts his safe. They're tracking Mark Jackson and the gangsters when it all clicks for the hero inspector. He smacks his desk, stands up, and tells his superior, "The diamonds are fake!"

John Doe

2y↑2

@Philip Monihan
Just out of curiosity is there ever an actual moment in the film where they acknowledge or mention that?!
It's a cool detail is that is pretty much lost if it's not explained.
I get the connection between coal and diamonds but if the film never acknowledges it itself it's kind of pointless.

Philip Monihan

2y↑2

@John Doe Perhaps, but I love how the monster plot actually affects the procedural aspect. "The diamonds must have been fake! Why else would Dogora go for the coal and not the diamond truck?"

John Doe

2y↑2

@Philip Monihan
Except that plot was equally unsatisfying as well. We got a halfway decent death of all the gangsters but finding out that the diamonds were always all fake was so lame a twist and completely made the entire narrative stupid and useless. It could have somehow merged the two story lines together well but they definitely didn't. And what you were left with was minimal monster action with a monster killed off screen and a b plot that had a quick and very unsatisfying resolution.

Philip Monihan

2y↑3

I actually thought the diamond heist plot complemented the monster part very well. A good template for incorporating human narratives into kaiju action.

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Zoomer Stasi

2y↑63

I always found it interesting that Toho did a eldritch horror kaiju film decades before that concept would even be thought of or classified as.
Makes me wish we got the abduction and human experimentation Kaiju, Dogolas actually greenlit alongside Bagan.

From The Cheap Seats

2y↑2

@ConstantineFurman Well, Azathoth is called the “Blind Idiot God.”

Zoomer Stasi

2y↑7

@ConstantineFurman
t.hasn't read a single book by lovecraft but pretends to know
Tell me, what's the definition of cosmic horror?

ConstantineFurman

2y↑1

There's nothing remotely resembling "eldritch horror" in this movie. Dagora is just a mutated space cell that has an affinity for carbon, winds up randomly growing into a jellyfish shape, blown into smaller pieces by missiles, and then gets crystalized by bug venom. Unless some of Lovecraft's Old Ones were dipshits too, perhaps.

Bonnie Blacksmith

2y↑41

I’d love to see dogora return in another movie, such a cool kaiju

Glee-chan

2y↑18

Dogora's effect actually look really good. Even more creepy than some modern movies, I think.

Angry Boy

2y↑21

The kaiju Dogora itself is very cool. I like his creative jellyfish alien-like design. He also has some creative abilities. I wish he was used more in movies

Jon Dou

It seems very similar to the alien from N.O.P.E don't you think?

BigSlimyBlob

2y↑11

It's like someone read a Lovecraftian story and thought "I could make a monster film loosely based on this".

Glen Chapman

2y↑26

Just an FYI - Fire flys being seen out the window of capsule was a common phenomena during the early years of the manned space program. It is now believed the cause was ice flakes breaking of the craft and catching the suns rays as they rotate. So for the era of the film, the comment does actually make sense

Glen Chapman

@whelk Yeah I just looked it up. In the film it was John Glenn's flight :)

whelk

@Glen Chapman I don't recall the scene in The Right Stuff exactly, but Chris Craft (he was the flight controller) in his auto bio describes the event extensively.

Glen Chapman

@whelk Is it his flight or John Glenn that had them featured in the movie "Right Stuff"?

whelk

Scott Carpenter on his Mercury flight in 1962 was one of the first people to report them.

ironicallystupidusername

2y↑12

Dogora may be the most underrated kaiju ever

Prehistoric Gaming

2y↑2

Agree'd

GRAPE SHOT

2y↑79

This one has largely has been forgotten, just like Monster from Prehistoric Planet. It's about two giant bird kaijus that go looking for their stolen egg. Quite a bit of destruction in that one.

Megalon9631

2y↑2

Monster, that’s it’s name MONSTER ?

Philip Monihan

2y↑5

Love Gappa, the Triphibian Monster. It's like Gorgo except the baby monster has both parents coming for him. And so much hugging!

Pax Humana

2y↑1

@GRAPE SHOT , would that not be Goombas?

Bender Bending Rodríguez

2y↑1

Aka Gappa 1967

GRAPE SHOT

2y↑3

@KRhetor that's usually people that are into Kaiju movies. But it's not known much out of those circles much like Attack of the Mushroom People.

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Dylan Holven

2y↑16

That scene were the monster destroyed the bridge was so cool, I wish there was more of that

Aly Hoffman

2y↑27

"Q the Winged Serpent" is definitely the better "giant monster-diamond theft caper" movie.

Poochyena Jones

2y↑13

So, the ultimate solution to defeat a monster was a deadly bee weapon, huh?
"Bees. My god."

Marinus van Zyl

Bee Happy? :P

DeviouSmile

2y↑2

Not the bees....NOT THE BEEEEAAHAAHAGHAGAGA

DragomanPl

2y↑12

Finally, a kaiju that only Dr. Bees can stop

James Carlson

2y↑19

Silly as this film is, do gotta give the guy Robert Durham credit, even know he was dubbed over here, the guy did speak perfect Japanese in the films he was in. So kudos.

Solo Orca

2y↑17

Dogora the “tentacle jellyfish” 😉 is actually based on a Box jellyfish this is honestly a great way to show this species of Jellyfish

OGPUEE

2y↑9

9:17 Fun fact: In original Japanese version Robert Dunham actually speaks his lines instead being of being dubbed by seiyu. Because he was fluent in Japanese. In English Dub (commissioned by Toho BTW) he wasn't as lucky as Nick Adams or Russ Tamblyn and was dubbed by some dude.

Christiana Hargrave

2y↑12

We need Dogora in the Monsterverse!

burningmisery

Dogora should be in Doctor Strange 3.

Jennifer Nichole

2y↑46

Unfortunately the first reference in Japanese I could find to "space firefly" was a reference to how astronauts dispose of bodily wastes while in orbit. It kinda made me regret my ability to speak and read the language. Such poetic words to describe droplets of piss.

The second reference was to an episode of Space Battleship Yamato and equally unhelpful.

Jairou Kagiri

2y↑1

Thanks for the deep dive at least.

Mr. Pavone

2y↑2

See my comment above. I think there's a connection between Dagora eating coal and shitting diamonds.

MasterJediDude

2y↑2

They also chased space fireflies in Message from Space. Definitely a Japanese invention. LOL

irreliventable

2y↑4

I think this is what they were referring to. I remember some documentaries on the early days of nasa and they, at first, didn't know what the sparkling little "things" were they would see outside of the capsule.

Gerald Vanderhoff

2y↑13

Yes, in a sense, that one gangster is a cartoon character: He played the villain in King Kong Escapes, who was also the villain in the 1960s King Kong cartoon series. You remember him: Dr. Hu.

shishoka

Who?

Tareltonlives

Eisei Amamoto was the Michael Ironside of his day

Setebos

2y↑10

The "space firefly" line might have been a reference to the "fireflies" which John Glenn reported during the Friendship 7 mission.

Malcolm Morton

2y↑11

In fairness, this was far from the only time classic Toho made a genre-hybrid movie where the monster stuff wasn't the primary focus. You've even covered Latitude Zero and Matango yourself! But, yeah, this was one of the more awkward hybrids...

TorridPrime217

2y↑6

If Ryan Hollinger were reviewing this movie, I'm sure he'd have something profend to say about how the humans' obsession with the meaningless diamond side-plot cleanly parallels Dogora's seemingly inexplicable hunger for all material things, which it gobbles up without paying any mind to anything else

Schwarzwald

2y↑15

Yo your reviews rock I just recently went back and rewatched the Hanuman vs Ultraman and The Story of Chinese Gods reviews and they crack me up to no end.

Victor Hernandez

2y↑1

Both videos are hilarious!

Deephouse Gent

2y↑8

As goofy as this film was, it was a small part of my childhood. Back in the early and mid 70s, local TV stations played Godzilla, Gamera and all sorts of other Japanese Kaiju and sci-fi flicks during the weekends. Weird as this film was, it had some of the most unique special effects I've ever seen in a TOHO flick. I thought the shower of rocks and the bridge-lifting sequences were spectacular to view. Seeing it as a kid though, most of the plot went way over my head. I brought a nice subtitled original Japanese language copy about 10yrs ago, and it looks beautiful.

Stretto Asino

Saturday.. channel 9 evenings

Matias Candia

2y↑7

Dogora is such a cool monster design!

Ethan Reynolds

2y↑3

Fun fact: The earliest screenplay for the film, pitched in 1962, was called Space Mons (スペース・モンス, Supesu Monsu). Instead of cops and robbers meet space monsters the film was more like what was seen in The Mysterians (1957), Battle in Outer Space (1959) and Gorath (1962). The story took place in a futuristic setting where humanity united on a global scale to address a threat, instead of alien invaders or a rouge star about to hit Earth, this time it's space monsters. The monsters weren't called Dogora until later on but the appetite for carbon, like coal and diamonds reminded the same for both scripts.

Bill Carroll

2y↑7

This review is well timed, as I recently added it to my collection. I saw it a couple times when I was a kid. It didn't age well for me, but I get why people dig it...Dogora was a neat monster, but the diamond plot really weighed it down. It's good background noise for when I want a monster movie on , but don't want to pay attention to it.

Glory Hulle

2y↑2

I learn so much about kaiju just from watching your reviews! It’s amazing how many bizarre films would have slipped by me if not for your diligence. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into your videos. I do not know how I ever survived without your channel for so long! Keep up the awesomeness!!! 🖤

Camden Jackson

2y↑6

Now I feel compelled to watch this movie & make a drinking game for every time the word diamond is mentioned

Dr J Reefer

2y↑1

I'll send flowers to the funeral

Soelo

2y↑7

Giant Alien with tentacles, it’s quite common in Japan, imagine Godzilla fighting them. Actually don’t think about it.

Allison Grosser

2y↑4

The floating drunk guy had me in absolute stitches!!!

You are also one seriously funny and gorgeous fella

xkumanekox

2y↑2

Even as a Showa era daikaiju fan, this one's a real deep cut for me.

JT

2y↑3

Dogora is on of the most underused Kaijus out there

Carl Jensen

1y↑1

I watched this one Saturday afternoon in 1975 when I was 8 and it was my favorite of the monster movies. The diamond storyline grounded it like an enjoyably campy spy/crime story, and the space monster left a lasting impression on me because it remained mysterious and an unknowable factor. The two things Brandon did not like about the movie made it cemented in my memory, but that's probably due to my watching it through the eyes of an 8 year old.
It's a Toho monster so it's worth mentioning. Dogorah positively dwarfs every other kaiju in the lexicon. It remains a very protected property and I'd really like to see them bring the concept back. It was my favorite kaiju since 1975. We're allowed our opinions.

TakaRyu 08102000

2y↑3

I think you are supposed to pronounce each "o" in Dogora as a long "o" sound, with the second syllable being pronounced as the English word "go". This means the first syllable is pronounced the same as "dough". Sometimes, Japan can be quite hard to comprehend, like how they have different words that would translate into the same word or one word could have many different translations.

ConstantineFurman

2y↑1

Yeah, "Dogora" should be said like "dough-go-rah."
The U.S. name "Dagora" should be said "Duh-gore-uh."

Tim Worley

2y↑3

I saw Dagora on TV back in the 60's. Yep, I'm old. I had a dream about it afterwards. Must've been the ghostliness of the creature & it's tentacles. I never call my dreams "nightmares" because they always play-out like movies. Plus if I ever told my mom about them she'd never let me watch monster movies again.

Hell, she screamed at me every other day about comic books. Errrr.

I'd be a big fan of seeing a review on SPACE AMOEBA (AKA Yog, Monster From Space). Saw that as a kid at an all-day matinee. What fun.

Lee

2y↑8

Ah Akiko Wakabayashi... her and Mie Hama represented Japan very nicely in You Only Live Twice.

Lee

@Henry Kujawa Someone told the writer that because they discovered Wakabayashi was likely to throw herself off a hotel roof from the shame of not getting the part, so I think we can say it was worth the minor plot issue.

Henry Kujawa

Every time I watch YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, I get pissed off at how they built Aki into such a terrific character... and then killed her off 2/3rds of the way in, just because someone told the writer to have 2 girls and kill one partway in. They should have have ONE girl all the way thru.

It was also very strange that, with all the English dubbing in the Bond films, they insisted that the 2 girls both speak English in that film. And Mie Hama almost got fired because her English wasn't that good! She had a MUCH-better part in KING KONG ESCAPES.

Tareltonlives

2y↑2

They also appear as best friends in King Kong vs Godzilla. Ironically, they play spoofs of Bond style characters in the comedy International Secret Police: Key of Keys, redubbed and edited into "What's Up Tiger Lily"

Daryl

2y↑11

Great review. Dogora has some really freaky movements. Using the puppet in water approach really made it alien, like Earth atmosphere is really unusual for it. Also while the jewels Mark had may have been fake the real jewel was Brandon's Edward G Robinson voice. Myah See?

Mark Leslie

BootyccineAlfredo

One thing I always loved about Dogora that no one ever talks about is that this sob is literally STILL the biggest kaiju to date, he dwarfs everyone and he’s virtually indestructible

James Callans

2y↑3

Dogora did get an apperance in the NES Godzilla game, they were a minor enemy on the space levels.

Shelton Bright, Jr.

1y↑1

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This movie almost drove me insane! This was the very 1st Toho movie I remembered seeing as a kid & since I only saw it once I couldn't remember the name of it. I also didn't remember the human storyline. As a kid I rarely paid attention to the human storyline. I just remembered Dogora lifting up the coal plant & the bridge. This movie rarely played on TV & this was the 1st time I saw anything about it in 50 yrs!! My sanity has been saved!

Dr. Medieval

2y↑1

They showed this on the 4:30 Movie in NYC way back when I was a kid. I thought Dogora itself was pretty scary. A giant floating monster hiding in a thunderstorm, sucking up everything, and everyone on the ground if you didn't hide. And if you escaped that, there's still the giant rocks falling from the sky! This was scary shit to an eight year old during a summer late afternoon.

CaseX

2y↑1

"This is real interesting...or whatever..."

I rewound that part three times. Your delivery was perfect. 😂

PREPFORIT

2y↑3

Take a drink every time they say "Diamonds" 🤣

Peter D

Those shots of the monster in the sky over the city were lowkey creepy and well done

Agnetha LaDuff

2y↑2

Cool review of Dogora. I like the special effect of the Dogora monster, they could have build on that special effect and make better monster movies .Great review Brandon, you so totally rock !

Pulsar Stargrave

2y↑1

I LOVE IT! When I was younger, I used to ignore this because I thought it was "boring" (i.e. few cool monster scenes) but in the 90s I started to get into Asian Crime Cinema, caught DAGORA on late night T.V...and fell in love with it as well as ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE! Gangsters AND a monster? COOL!

MissAshley42

2y↑1

That's a pretty good monster effect. I totally thought it was just super-imposed footage of a jellyfish. I had no idea that was a puppet.

David Coleman

2y↑1

Terrific show! I've only ever seen this in horrid pan & scan, so letterbox rocked. Agreed: weirdest Toho kaiju beastie ever. Right up there with MATANGO. Keep 'em coming, Brandon!

Forgotten Pharaoh

We were always hoping you would do this movie. We never saw it ourself and couldnt motivate ourself to watch it. Thanks for doing it!

Mike Maloy

This one has been hiding in the recesses of my memories for years. I saw it when I was around 10(ish). The only thing I remembered about it was the woman's death and the mobsters getting crushed. I never could find a thing about the movie until now. Thank you helping fill in the blank! :)

John DeLye

2y↑2

The Dogora sound effect was later reused for the sentient meteorite kaiju Bruton

Steve Bunche

2y↑2

In the 1970's I religiously watched The 4:30 Movie, NYC's M-F showcase for movies, and they would regularly do "Monster Week" because it killed in the ratings. Monster Week was almost exclusively the territory of kaiju films from Toho and Daiei (and other companies), so kids who were into kaiju cinema got quite the education. In the case of this movie, it bored the hell out of its audience, so, unlike most of the other kaiju flicks run in the showcase, I can honestly say I think it was only shown once. The monster's flying jellyfish form was memorable, but the rest of the flick? Not so much.

metaldad1967

2y↑2

Growing up in the 70's, I remember Dagora, as well as Matango! Attack of The Mushroom people played frequently on Channel 32 in Chicago. The afternoon Monstrous Movie and Saturday night Chiller Theater

Thacobell

2y↑3

I did a quick google search, and aside from the space urine examples some other comments have already mentioned, I did find mention of another "space firefly." Apparently, it was an object that got brighter and brighter before going dark again over a period of a few months. Looks like that was as recent as 2006 though. I don't know if there are earlier examples or not.

Hawkticus' History Corner

Im not gonna lie, that monster looks wild and I love it. If this movie leaned more into horror I think that design would work really well.

RipleyandWeeds

I first saw this monster while looking at a Kaiju iceberg and seeing a still image of this thing filled me with dread. Like its such an eerie Kaiju in that cosmic entity sort of way.

Philip Monihan

Toho made four tokusatsu crime thrillers. This was the diamond heist one, H-Man was the drug one, Human Vapor was the bank heist one, and Secret of the Telegien was the murder mystery. I really enjoy the lot of them.

TheAnubis57

2y↑1

Even the name Dogora / Dagora sounds like a Lovecraftian monster --I'm thinking of his short story Dagon which in turn is from the name of a Sumarian god associated with fish / marine life.

AJewBag89

2y↑1

Another obscure Toho movie is H-man, saw it a few years back and it’s definitely worth a watch for any KAIJU fan.

Soelo

2y↑3

Sounds like we could do a drinking game, ever time Brendon and the movie say/show diamonds take a drink of hot sauce or other drinks. Nothing dangerous.

Robert Stewart

2y↑1

I loved Dogora when I first saw it. The DVD is on the shelf to my left. I think it has been overlooked because while the design of the kaiju is great it really only makes one brief appearance. We wanted moar monsters. Still do.

Brick Mantooth

2y↑3

I got suckered into watching this when I was 9. I haven't thought of it much since then, it wasn't until mid-way into your review I remembered the big rock hitting the gangsters.

SillyPom

Shoehorned is pretty much the key word for most human B plots in kaiju flicks. Ah well. I like that Dogora was featured as an ambient background monster in the Godzilla video game on the classic NES. Always looked really neat and made me wish it were a sub boss you could fight. Oh, and... Bees. My God.

Glen McCulla

Judge Doom, played by Doctor Who. Truly a franchise-spanning crossover event.

Stormo Stormo

I would actually love to see a monster like this one with modern effects especially if it will evolved from like shin Godzilla or Godzilla Ultima or something

Redjed's Vlogs

Speaking of Japanese gangster movies, I hope you cover “Sympathy for the Underdog” one of these days. It’s an unironically good movie, so you may not cover it except for a special occasion, but it’s got quite a lot going for it. Plus, it was arguably the biggest influence for the creation of “Yakuza” game series.

The Pyramid (N)

You know... if Dogora had a newer adaptation to be on par with a Junji Ito style of storytelling, and relegated the diamonds to be tied in more with our monster's presence (Like shards of an Eldritch summoning stone or fragments of an ancient relic from some bygone era) - this could've been a lot stronger than a few of the other films that Toho created.
Making the human interactions mean more, and the reason for Dogora's appearance hold a lot more weight.

Ah well XD

Marinus van Zyl

I believe there was a Lovecraftian monster in Intersect (2020). Features some Lovecraftian elements, but bad dubbing kinda sabotaged it as a quality entry in the cinematic mythos. :/

GRAPE SHOT

2y↑6

Yes I noticed the tentacle theme. Just wouldn't be a batshit crazy Japanese movie without some.

mightyfilm

2y↑17

Writer 1: My movie script for the giant jellyfish kaiju is only worth half a movie!

Writer 2: My dumb gangster movie script is only worth half a movie!

Writer 1: Wanna just cram them together and turn it in as one film?

Sounds like how that went down.

mightyfilm

2y↑1

@ConstantineFurman I knew there was something screwed up about the script, like it was unfinished or repurposed or something. Most likely why it feels like 2 different films. Though wacky parody gangsters having to deal with various kaiju would make a great Tokusatsu show if they got the ratio right.

ConstantineFurman

2y↑1

This was a script by Jojiro Okami (story creator of "The Mysterians", "Battle in Outer Space", and "Gorath") turned in in 1962 (as the bizarre title, "Space Mons" [sic]) that was shelved because Toho didn't think they could bring the monster to life properly at the time. In 1964, when Toho decided they wanted a summer spectacle movie and had just released a Godzilla movie, they dusted the script off, had Shinichi Sekizawa do a polish (then titled "Earth Martial Law"), scaled down the worldwide destruction sequences for budgetary reasons, and pushed it into production.

Jeffrey DeCristofaro

2y↑3

It certainly wouldn't be the first time Toho made a sci-fi monster movie with gangsters in it - check out Ishiro Honda's THE H-MAN from nearly a decade before, which was attempting to cross the country's nuclear radiation trauma with the emerging gangster genre that would mature in the sixties with the Yakuza films of Nippon New Wave masters Seijun Suzuki, Teruo Ishii and Nagisa Oshima. It really worked better far better there.

nooctip

The actors in this film sparkle like diamonds. Which makes sense as this film is a diamond in the rough.

Johnny Sizemore

One of the reasons I love these type of movies is because of the ludicrousness of the human plot's...

whelk

This was cool. A kaiju movie I'd never heard of, and lived for these things on Saturday afternoons in the 70's.

David Fausel

2y↑1

WOW = looking at the creatives behind it and the Godzilla alumni in the cast, I am surprised I never heard of this! Then I finished our video.... yeah now I can see why lol. Great video!

Jordan Rodriguez

Someone should remake this, I do like the concept of a monster that float in the clouds and strikes when it gets the opportunity.

Dan Morgan

Thanks for this review! I watched this movie when I was a kid and could never find it. I had thought it was a Godzilla movie so I was completely off in my search. Funnily enough I now understand why I only remembered the diamond theft plot line.

Donald Stuck III

2y↑1

Kaiju movie completionist thank you Brandon you have expanded my vocabulary

bloodrunsclear

This is like if Bruno Mattei had a budget and combined a diamond heist movie with a kaiju film. Mark Jackson would be played by Pierre Kirby.

robotrix

2y↑2

3:06 "Space Firefly" might be a leftover from the John Glenn orbit in 1961. He said he saw "fireflies" outside of the capsule somewhere around passing over Australia. It's since been said that those were ice crystals brushed off the outside of the capsule and glowing in the sun.
4:26 Dr Who!!!

Bender Rodriguez

2y↑1

I have eagerly awaited your review of Dogora!!
Thank you!

Nameless Entity

2y↑1

I have an early '90's issue of "Markalite magazine" with an interview with Mr. Dunham. He seemed like quite the character, and was part of a stunt racing team that did a lot of work in Japanese cinema. He was friends with the actor who portrayed the "controller of planet X" in Monster Zero, and said the Dude was a Lothario. He also said Nick Adams was a funny guy, but troubled. Again, this was all his take, so I dunno.

Nicholas Lienandjaja

Now I would like to see Dogora in the MonsterVerse (this time, instead of being a kaiju diamond and coal thief, it will be reimagined as an eldritch abomination)

sfighter00

I don't think I've ever really heard of this movie. I think I've only heard of the monster "Dogora" when looking at "Toho Kingdom". While the monster bits are traditional Kaiju fun and Dogora's design is cool, it feels like there are two different movies here. A Kaiju movie and a jewel heist movie, with most of the runtime devoted to the jewel heist segment. Who knew a Kaiju movie would devote more time to Diamonds? 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

Dip 360

Thank you for reviewing this movie Brandon I’ve been waiting for you to review it and it looks interesting I might check it out

Jordan Arnold

The wicker man scene that came to mind for me was when Nick Cage disguised in a bear costume, punches the mead brewer .

Jade Dinosaur

2y↑6

Always loving that Kyuss shirt Brandon. Back in high school, while everyone else was listening to lame emo shit like Panic! At The Disco or My Chemical Romance (because the offenders should always be named), I was rocking out to them. Heck yeah. 😎

Tyler A. Forti

My favorite thing about this is that Dogara got a better role in kicking off the Godzilla Anime Trilogy (even though the monster apocalypse was a better plot than the actual Trilogy itself)

Tareltonlives

The death of the gangsters is hilarious. It's like a Monty Python skit.

It's funny- Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster was made in the same year, has some of the same cast (Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi, Hideyo Amamoto and the late Yosuke Natsuki even plays a similar role) the same production crew and also has a crime subplot, but it's more consistent in tone, more constant in action, and really tries to integrate the kaiju into the human cast. I feel that in the 60s Toho was trying to throw as many ideas at the wall as possible while still having pretty ambitious production values, and this one just didn't work.

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