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“Giant Horde Beast: Nezura” is a monster movie, a precursor to “Gamera”, that was originally slated for release in 1964. It was shot using live rats on miniature sets to make the rodents appear as giant monsters. The production team reportedly drove around the city in a truck, buying rats off the street for 50 yen each. However, the project was shut down by the health department after 3,000 feet of footage had been filmed. The reason: the wild brown rats used in the production were escaping the set and posed a public health risk, with the potential to transmit disease. The remaining rats were reportedly sprayed with oil, burned, and disposed of. After this troubled attempt, the crew disbanded. Still, the studio was not deterred from pursuing the kaiju genre, and soon released “Gamera, the Giant Monster”, reusing sets originally built for “Giant Horde Beast: Nezura”. The low-budget, crowdfunded “Nezura 1964” pays tribute...

Reboots of long-established franchises have regularly been recurring in the Japanese entertainment industry. For example, the ongoing “Shin Japan Heroes Universe” has modernized numerous classic pieces of tokusatsu history with movies such as “Shin Godzilla,” “Shin Ultraman,” and the upcoming “Shin Kamen Rider.” Reboots have also taken a unique direction in present-day cinema’s independent side. Such an example is reimagining a long-lost piece of Japanese cinema. That is the case with the outlandish low-budget film “The Great Buddha Arrival.”

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The original “The Great Buddha Arrival” is a lost 1934 independent kaiju movie directed by pioneer filmmaker Yoshiro Edamasa who served as a mentor to many filmmakers, including special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. Its place in Japanese cinema is rather significant as it was one of the earliest pieces of daikaiju filmmaking ever constructed, predating the original “Godzilla” directed by Ishiro Honda, by two decades.

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Reboots of long-established franchises have regularly been recurring in the Japanese entertainment industry. For example, the ongoing “Shin Japan Heroes Universe” has modernized numerous classic pieces of tokusatsu history with movies such as “Shin Godzilla,” “Shin Ultraman,” and the upcoming “Shin Kamen Rider.” Reboots have also taken a unique direction in present-day cinema’s independent side. Such an example is reimagining a long-lost piece of Japanese cinema. That is the case with the outlandish low-budget film “The Great Buddha Arrival.”

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The original “The Great Buddha Arrival” is a lost 1934 independent kaiju movie directed by pioneer filmmaker Yoshiro Edamasa who served as a mentor to many filmmakers, including special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. Its place in Japanese cinema is rather significant as it was one of the earliest pieces of daikaiju filmmaking ever constructed, predating the original “Godzilla” directed by Ishiro Honda, by two decades.

Created by red hott poster artist Yoshiki Takahashi wh has done posters for Quentin Tarantino and many others!!: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3417506/ The all-star ensemble cast of our film, directed by Hiroto Yokokawa, includes legendary actor Akira Takarada, Peggy Neal (X From Outer Space), Yukijiro Hotaru, Ippei Ohsako …

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We’ve been given the news that Shin Godzilla actress Inge Murata has joined the cast of Hiroto Yokokawa’s upcoming kaiju feature The Great Buddha Arrival. Murata can be seen standing to the left of actress Shelley Sweeney, who also appears in the film, in the photo to the right. This news comes off the hells […]

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Chris Crow's The Lighthouse, nominated for five BAFTA awards, will be released theatrically (July 6th) as well as on VOD (July 10th). Check out the trailer after the synopsis and awards listing. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a rousing story about Kaiju film star Peggy Neal and The Great Buddha Arrival, Blu-ray debuts for German Angst and A Taste of Phobia, London Horror Festival announcement, Beast of Bray Road trailer, and Pluto TV's June lineup.

Watch a New The Lighthouse Trailer: Press Release: "BAFTA-award winning supernatural thriller The Lighthouse, starring Michael Jibson and Mark Lewis Jones, hits theaters and VOD this July.

“A dark and disquieting journey into the heart of madness” (Starburst), the film, inspired by a terrifying true story, tells of two men trapped in an isolated lighthouse, surrounded by the deadly Irish sea, with both their minds ultimately pushed to the limits.

Directed by Chris Crow,...