A biology student has just hovered her way into the record books in a four-rotor, human-powered helicopter named after a giant flying turtle from Japanese kaiju movies. Gamera was built to try and ...

Directed by Hiroyuki Seshita (who also handles the series composition alongside Kenta Ihara and Hiroshi Seko) for studio ENGI, Gamera: Rebirth’s staff also includes the likes of Atsushi Tamura as ...

Daiei Film isn’t as close to being a household name as Toho is, but they still knew an opportunity when they saw one. After Gojira and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds proved to attract attention even ...

Master Splinter doesn’t have a monopoly on mutant turtles in pop culture. Gamera, the second most-franchisable city-stomping reptile from Japan, has quite the resume. And he’ll soon be returning in a ...

In 1965, at the height of the kaiju genre’s popularity in Japan, Daiei Film introduced audiences to its own giant monster, Gamera, a mutated fire-breathing turtle who later became known as “the friend ...

The Gamera Heisei trilogy are known as some of the best Japanese kaiju films, right up there next to the original Gojira. The first film came out the same year Godzilla 'died' in Godzilla vs.

Godzilla’s first mighty roar in 1954 kicked off an aptly named kaiju boom in Japan that lasted over a decade. While Toho Studios were the undisputed kings of giant monsters in the cinema in the 1960s, ...

Trent Berchtold is a screenwriter with a degree in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University. Highly passionate about film, he has spent years honing his writing skills so that he may contribute to ...