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King Kong is dead. Godzilla is retired. There’s a new monster in town – DEATH KAPPA! Kappa are mischievous Japanese folk spirits that live in rivers and play jokes. When Kanako returns home in disgrace, her grandmother takes her in and makes her the caretaker of their tiny village's kappa. But something is wrong with the local kappa...a secret cell of WW II scientists is trying to turn it into an amphibious weapon. One atom bomb later, Japan is under attack by giant monsters.
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Trying to be cute, just cheesy
Extreme low-budget monster movie tries hard to be tongue-in-cheek and cute but is just cheesy. Where is PULGASARI or ULTRA BROTHERS MEET HANUMAN THE MONKEY GOD when you need them? I let the rental expire without finishing the movie. Giving it two stars for rabid fans of deliberately cheesy Japanese monster movies (I know you are out there).
Or, as an alternate title "Death Kappa vs. Hangyolas"
Man, this is a strange movie I am reviewing......I mean, really.....it is. This film feels like a combination of J-Horror, the later Showa kaiju films, and a bit of anime style humor. The first half of it is just setting up the kappa and the character that takes care of the Kappa. BTW, this character was played by Misato Hirata who kaiju fans may recognize as Konomi Amagai of the CREW GUYS team from Ultraman Mebius. This kappa and some super-amphibious mutants created by a creepy as crap mad scientist were mutated by an atomic blast [set with effects like those of the early Toho studio films]..........I know, it's confusing. Now, these mutants became the antagonist kaiju Hangyolas [pronounce it and it will sound like a familiar kaiju from Godzilla Raids Again]. This creature went into a rampage and the army tried to stop it [which goes just as well as you would expect from any kaiju film......terribly!!!!]. The effects for the rampage I swear look like something that Daiei did in the 60's. The fight between Death Kappa [basically, the kappa after the atomic blast] and Hangyolas feels like a fight from the later Showa films...with such things as throwing things around like as if they were volleyballs [reminescent of Godzilla and Ebirah fighting] and the kaiju doing wrestling style fighting. BTW, Death Kappa's energy attack does look too familiar.......nah, I'm probably seeing things. During Death Kappa's portion of destruction, there was faux stock footage that seemed reminescent of the 70's Godzilla films. During all this kaiju mayhem, sound effects from Toho studios were added in it just to give it a classic feel to it. They cut to a scientist that is supposed to know all about the subject matter, sort of in the same manner as the American version of King Kong vs. Godzilla [please iTunes, upload it.....we kaiju films demand to see this classic]. Konomi, I mean Misato Hirata, sings to the kappa which afffects it. This seems to be very remeniscent of King Seesar being awakened by the Okinawa girl singing to it. Overall, it is a throwaway to the later Showa kaiju films.....sort of like how Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double feature was an homage to 70's exploitation films. It is something that I recommend to kaiju fans. Some of you may feel the same way as I do and some of you may feel that it is an insulting movie. Check it out to see which kind of kaiju fan you are.
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- Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Released: 2010
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