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Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.
Tamio Kawaji
- Hiroshi Kurosaki
- (as Tamio Kawachi)
Yûji Odaka
- Prof. Daize Tonooka
- (as Yuji Kodaka)
Yôko Ôyagi
- Aihara
- (as Yoko Oyagi)
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- TriviaThe main and end title music heard in the overseas releases of this film (for example, Monster from a Prehistoric Planet in the U.S.) were from an earlier film also scored by Seitaro Omori, the Nikkatsu teen drama/comedy film Youth Song (1959).
- GoofsAt 54:00 when airplanes attack the Gappas, for a brief moment during a view from an airplane target one can see where the fake sky backdrop ends and the movie studio beyond it.
- Quotes
President Funazu: Like it? I call it Playmate Land.
- Alternate versionsIn all English-dubbed versions of the film, the rock and roll theme song titled "Great Giant Beast Gappa" (heard in both the opening credits and the ending of the original Japanese version of it) is replaced by standard orchestral music. Also, the Japanese version features a song titled "Keep Trying, Baby Gappa!" (heard in the scene at the end of the film where the male and female Gappas are reunited with their baby). In all English-dubbed versions, the song's vocals are cut and thus, it becomes an instrumental song.
- ConnectionsEdited into Red Dwarf: Meltdown (1991)
- SoundtracksDaikyojû Gappa
("Great Giant Beast Gappa")
Opening and Ending Theme (Japanese version only)
Music by Masao Yoneyama
Arrangement by Iwao Shigematsu
Lyrics by Hikari Ichijô
Performed by Katsuhiko Miki
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Nikkatsu Studio was one of the six largest movie studio in Japan at the time this movie was made, but due to the proliferation of TV sets, Japanese movie industry was in a steady economic decline. Kaijyu or giant monster movies were about the only franchise that were still making good money, and Nikkatsu made an attempt to jump in to this genre with this movie.
A Japanese expedition to the south pacific island unwittingly stumble onto a newly hatched baby triphibian reptile which the natives call "Gappa", and brings it back to Japan. A greedy publishing magnate, and an amusement park promoter notices a good thing when he sees one and decides to display the baby at his park. This didn't sit well with the parents of the baby reptile, and they show up in Japan to claim their kid. Rest is stereotypical giant monster mayhem.
This movie as far as I know is the only movie that features a complete family of giant monsters or "Kaijyu" ever to be shown together. It's also a first Triphibian monster that can walk, breathe underwater, and fly. The story is bit derivative where I can see little pieces off of Gorgo, Mothra, Godzilla, King Kong etc. and not very original, but the special effects in this movie is surprisingly good for a studio's first attempt. Gappa is not just an mindless monster, but actually seems to have intelligence behind their actions. This lowers the tension of the monster's character as an engine of destruction, and the movie carries on with bit of a bore, but the overall production is good, and ranks as an average giant monster movie. You get to see a very young Yoko Yamamoto playing the star in this movie. She's still acting after nearly 50 years since this movie was made, and amazingly, still beautiful in her roles.
A Japanese expedition to the south pacific island unwittingly stumble onto a newly hatched baby triphibian reptile which the natives call "Gappa", and brings it back to Japan. A greedy publishing magnate, and an amusement park promoter notices a good thing when he sees one and decides to display the baby at his park. This didn't sit well with the parents of the baby reptile, and they show up in Japan to claim their kid. Rest is stereotypical giant monster mayhem.
This movie as far as I know is the only movie that features a complete family of giant monsters or "Kaijyu" ever to be shown together. It's also a first Triphibian monster that can walk, breathe underwater, and fly. The story is bit derivative where I can see little pieces off of Gorgo, Mothra, Godzilla, King Kong etc. and not very original, but the special effects in this movie is surprisingly good for a studio's first attempt. Gappa is not just an mindless monster, but actually seems to have intelligence behind their actions. This lowers the tension of the monster's character as an engine of destruction, and the movie carries on with bit of a bore, but the overall production is good, and ranks as an average giant monster movie. You get to see a very young Yoko Yamamoto playing the star in this movie. She's still acting after nearly 50 years since this movie was made, and amazingly, still beautiful in her roles.
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- Gappa the Triphibian Monsters
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was Gappa the Triphibian Monster (1967) officially released in India in English?
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