2/22/2005

Writing about Gamera reminded me that i really love old Kaiju movies. 2 or 3 years ago i went to the HMV in shibuya and discovered that the precise week i was in Japan was the week of the release of a collector’s edition of Daikyoju Gappa. Gappa is one of the most oddly designed kaiju in history, it looks like a chicken with a lizard skin. Anyway the collector’s edition of Daikyoju Gappa contained an actual plastic figure of Gappa in all its gooffy beauty. It was a bit expensive though so i resisted the urge to buy it right away.
Boy do i regret this now.
On a different note, while searching for links on gappa i found this page and discovered the following trivia:
“An early print of the film included the racist comment “The monsters are attacking Tokyo. Fortunately they are attacking the negro section of town.”..”
Being racist is one thing, having fantaisies of giant lizard bird creature destroying black people in asian cities is just weird. And thinking about a group of white supremacist buying the american distribution rights of Daikyoju Gappa is just plain non sense.