![]() ![]() ![]() Geologist Takashi Ashizawa (Tsunehiko Watase) investigates but has barely begun when an earthquake rocks the area. In the prologue, a young woman falls into a cave in the Sea of Trees area near Mount Fuji and finds herself in an icy cave full of large eggs, one of which starts t hatch. Many years later when I finally got to see Junji Kurata’s Kyoryu Kaicho no Densetsu/Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds it turns out the film was certainly very eccentric. ![]() The shot seemed both eccentric and exciting. Similarly, interest in another Japanese film was piqued by another still, possibly in Greg Shoemaker’s excellent fanzine Japanese Fantasy Film Journal, a shot of a young woman being menaced by a giant monsters head rising from the water behind her. In my review of Teruo Ishii’s Kyôfu kikei ningen: Edogawa Rampo zenshû/Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) I mentioned that my interest in the film was initially piqued by a still spotted in Denis Gifford’s book A Pictorial History of the Horror Movie. ![]()
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