Gamera the Brave
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| Kanji | 小さき勇者たち〜ガメラ〜 | ||||
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| Directed by | Ryuta Tasaki[1] | ||||
| Written by | Yukari Tatsui | ||||
| Starring | Ryo Tomioka Kanji Tsuda Kaho | ||||
| Cinematography | Kazuhiro Suzuki | ||||
| Music by | Yoko Ueno | ||||
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| Distributed by | Shochiku | ||||
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Running time | 96 minutes | ||||
| Country | Japan | ||||
| Language | Japanese | ||||
| Box office | US$2.6 million[2] (Japan) | ||||
Gamera the Brave (小さき勇者たち〜ガメラ〜, Chiisaki Yūsha-tachi Gamera; lit. 'Little Heroes: Gamera') is a 2006 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ryuta Tasaki, written by Yukari Tatsui, and produced by Kadokawa Daiei Studio. It is the twelfth and latest installment in the Gamera film series, and serves as the second reboot of the franchise, with the first being Gamera: Guardian of the Universe in 1995 (which was distributed by Toho), as well as the final installment of the Heisei-era Gamera film series. It is also the first entry in the series to be produced by Kadokawa Daiei Studio after the company purchased a percentage of the remaining assets of Daiei Film, the original studio that was responsible for making the Gamera films.
Gamera the Brave stars Ryo Tomioka, Kanji Tsuda, Kaho, and Susumu Terajima, and features Toshinori Sasaki as Toto, the newly hatched Gamera. The film was released theatrically in Japan on April 29, 2006, and was distributed by Shochiku.
Plot
In 1973, Kosuke Aizawa evacuates his home in Shima, which is under attack by a swarm of man-eating bird-like creatures called the Original Gyaos[3] until a benevolent fire-breathing turtle-like creature named Avant Gamera[3] intervenes to buy time for the evacuation. Unable to exterminate all of the Gyaos, Gamera sacrifices himself in a self-destruct ability to end the threat of the Gyaos for good as Kosuke watches from the shores.
33 years later when Kosuke has matured into adult, his son Toru has a fear of being left alone because he is plagued by memories of his late mother Miyuki and Kosuke having to work hard to support his family. Toru's fears are intensified when he finds his neighbor, Mai, has to undergo dangerous heart surgery. When his other friends, Katsuya and Ishimaru, take him out exploring to try and cheer him up, Toru discovers an unusual egg atop a red stone in the same place original Gamera self-destructed decades ago. The egg, which reveals to be Gamera's egg, hatches into a juvenile Gamera, which Toru nicknames him Toto, after what Miyuki used to call Toru. Toto begins to display remarkable abilities such as high intelligence, levitation, and breathing small bursts of fire; while growing at a rapid rate.
Meanwhile, Toto quickly outgrows the house and is relocated by Toru and his friends to maintain secrecy. Toru also gives Mai the red stone he found Toto's egg on as a good luck charm for her heart surgery. However, after a storm, Toru finds Toto has left his hideaway and gone missing. Concurrently, many shipping disasters occur in the area, the cause of which is Zedus, a monstrous, man-eating mutated reptile.[4]
As Zedus soon thereafter rampages through the city, and corners Toru, Kozuke, and Toru's friends, Toto, now significantly larger, intercedes, but he is wounded in the battle and gets captured by government officials. Privy to Gamera's species being benevolent creatures and knowing Zedus would return, the government has scientists who studied the original Gamera work to help heal wounded Toto. Keeping him in a warehouse, they bandage Toto and hook Toto up to a machine which infuses him with liquid derived from mysterious red stones found in the vicinity of the original Gamera's self-destruction, which the scientists theorize give Toto their power.
Mai's surgery is successful and her mother Harumi calls Kosuke and Toru to give the good news, but she also states that Mai keeps muttering in her sleep that Toto needs the glowing red stone. Zedus attacks again and the now near fully-grown Toto goes out to battle him to save fleeing citizens. Toru and his friends determine that Toto must consume the red stone which Toru had found with Toto's egg, a much larger and more concentrated form of the red beads the scientists had used, in order to gain his full power. Kosuke, having seen the damage a battle can have first hand and not wanting to lose his son as he did his wife, initially opposes their efforts to get close to Toto; but comes around to help them after ensuring Katsuya and Ishimaru get to safety.
Mai tries to reach them or Toto to deliver the red stone, but her post-surgery weakness inhibits her. The red stone however, seems to connect to various human children, who come to Mai's aid and relay the stone across the city to Toru and his friends. Zedus, firmly having the upper-hand in the battle, hurls Toto into a skyscraper. Kosuke holds up the debris to help Toru get into the top of skyscraper and Toru, after begging Toto not to sacrifices himself like his predecessor did, throws the red stone into Toto's mouth during the battle. As the power of jet-propelled flight manifests Toto, he fires a charged-up plasma fireball attack down Zedus' throat, killing it in the process.
Toto escapes further government investigation with Toru, Kosuke, and the other children's assistance. Watching Toto fly off into the sky, Toru tearfully bids him farewell.
Cast
- Ryo Tomioka as Toru Aizawa, son of Kosuke and one of the film's main protagonists.
- Kanji Tsuda as Kosuke Aizawa, Toru's father and the owner of Aizawa's Diner.
- Kaho as Mai Nishio, Toru's neighbor who has undergo her heart surgery.
- Susumu Terajima as Osamu Nishio, Mai's father and owner of Nishio Pearl Shop.
- Kaoru Okunuki as Harumi Nishio, Mai's mother.
- Shingo Ishikawa as Masaru Ishimaru, Katsuya's brother and one of Toru's friends.
- Shogo Narita as Katsuya Ishimaru, Masaru's brother and one of Toru's friends.
- Tomorô Taguchi as Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
- Kenjirō Ishimaru as Professor Soichiro Amamiya
- Bokuzo Masana as Secretary Yuji Tobata
- Megumi Kobayashi as Miyuki Aizawa, Toru's late mother who appears in the flashback.
- Toshinori Sasaki as Toto, the newly hatched Gamera who serves as Toru's pet and one of the film's main protagonists.[5]
- Sasaki also portrays Avant Gamera, the predecessor of Toto and potentially the same individual as the successor, who sacrificed himself to destroys the Original Gyaos in 1973.[5]
- Mizuho Yoshida as Zedus, a man-eating mutated reptile and the film's main antagonist. Yoshida previously portrayed Legion Queen in Gamera 2: Attack of Legion.
Production
In 2002, Kadokawa acquired Daiei Film properties from Tokuma Shoten, and Kadokawa president Kazuo Kuroi announced to produce Godzilla vs. Gamera and a Daimajin reboot,[6] following the failed attempt to produce a crossover between Gamera and Godzilla by Yasuyoshi Tokuma prior to his death in 2000.[7][8] Toho eventually turned down the offers, leading to the production of Gamera the Brave after the temporal cease of Godzilla franchise since Godzilla: Final Wars.[note 1][10] Zedus[note 2] was intentionally designed after kaiju from Toho and Tsuburaya Productions;[11] Godzilla,[3] TriStar Pictures' Godzilla,[note 3] Godzilla-based Jirahs,[13] Varan,[13] Gorosaurus,[13] and so on.[16]
Despite its popularity, the Heisei Gamera trilogy was highly controversial among executives and Showa crews and even crews of the trilogy,[17] where Noriaki Yuasa who died two years prior to the release of Gamera the Brave, expressed his disfavors for the trilogy and emphasized the importance to differentiate from Godzilla.[18] The trilogy's direction was shaped due to the tendencies of the trio[note 4] to disfavor Gamera (Showa Gamera) and their preferences of the Godzilla and other Toho franchises, along with their dissatisfaction towards the Heisei Godzilla continuity.[11] Multiple disagreements between the studio and Kaneko's side disrupted its productions,[11] and especially the artificial origins of kaiju resulted in a near-dismiss of Shusuke Kaneko during the production of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe and its near-cancellation.[11][19] The plot of Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, in which Gamera's destructions of Shibuya made children to cry and forced their parents to leave theaters,[20] and the proposed plot for its sequel, aside from the financial situation of Tokuma Shoten[note 5] and the death of Yasuyoshi Tokuma, were the major factors of the demise of the continuity.[note 6][11][19] Executives and crews of Gamera the Brave were aware of both the popularity of the Heisei trilogy and financial insufficiency and risk to fail, and taking a different path from the trilogy was controversial where a number of stakeholders had suggested to produce either a sequel to the trilogy or its prequel or a side story, or a similar film, however executives emphasized the importance to recover the ideology of the franchise and to extricate from the trilogy, and didn't approve such directions, and Yoichi Arishige declared he would not participate if the film was going to become a sequel to the Heisei trilogy. Gamera the Brave was also aimed to appeal to children and female audiences who were rather disregarded targets during the Heisei trilogy, where its increasingly maniac and unbalanced direction especially Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris didn't contribute in expanding the fan base and proceeds of merchandises, triggering concerns among executives about the demise of the franchise by neglecting to appeal to wider audiences among changing markets, further supporting the direction not to produce sequels to the trilogy.[11][16]
The script of Gamera the Brave was redeveloped from one of the original scripts of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe by Chiaki and Kazuya Konaka,[22] which and the one by Yoshikazu Okada were written prior to the appointments of Kazunori Ito, and the "Konaka Gamera" script bears resemblances to the 1972 film Daigoro vs. Goliath by Tsuburaya Production, which was influenced by Daiei and Showa Gamera films.[23][24] Early plots of Tsuburaya's Ultraman Tiga and Digimon Tamers by Toei Animation[25][26] were also based on the same Gamera script by the Konaka brothers.[11][22]
Various productions had either major or minor influences on Gamera the Brave; Helen the Baby Fox, Rex: A Dinosaur's Story, Daiei Film's Yokai Monsters, Gorgo,[27] King Kong,[note 7] Heisei Mothra trilogy,[note 8] The Yearling and Bambi, a Life in the Woods,[note 9] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Babe, Star Trek,[note 10] Kamen Rider Ryuki, and Sgt. Frog.[11][3]
For its production, advertisement, and distribution, the film had also collaborated with the aforementioned Helen the Baby Fox and Sgt. Frog, and additionally with Oha Suta.[3][11]
The film was distributed by Shochiku; Gamera and Yokai Monsters franchises have always relied on distributions by other companies ever since Gamera vs. Zigra by the Dainichi Eihai due to the loss of Daiei Film's exclusive theater chains.[9]
Release
The film opened at No. 6 at the box office in Japan and became a commercial failure.
Reception
Andrew Kasch of the website Dread Central gave the film a score of 3 1/2 out of 5, writing that "Even with its kid-centric approach, Gamera the Brave is guaranteed to please most kaiju enthusiasts, and the new franchise should be enough to fill the empty hole left in Godzilla's absence."[31] Tom Mes of Midnight Eye called the film "an agreeable time waster that introduces the tried and true kaiju formula to a new generation", but wrote that "anyone aged 13 or over will likely be looking elsewhere for their monster movie fix".[32]
In the years following the film's release, a hoax circulated online which claimed that a giant ancient tortoise, shown in photographs being transported on a flatbed truck, was caught in or around the Amazon River.[33] In actuality, the tortoise shown in the photographs was a full-scale, 15-foot-long prop of Toto which was used in the film.[34]
Shusuke Kaneko, who is aware of both criticism against him and the purpose of Gamera the Brave to fix the franchise from the Heisei trilogy,[35] openly revealed his disfavor of the film and described it a commercial failure,[36] and criticized it for its sequels to be cancelled,[11] pointing the concept of the film to be "essentially wrong" for co-inserting contradicting themes to limit excitements,[note 11] and alleged the legitimacy of the trilogy.[11]
- According to Kaneko, he "honestly doesn't like the movie", and reviewed it as "I admit their efforts, but its concept is unacceptable, they might have tried to redeem "Kaneko's mistakes", but it wasn't serialized after all, and I (we) weren't wrong".[11] Kaneko also described subsequent stagnation of kaiju films were also due to box office results of Gamera the Brave and Godzilla: Final Wars,[36] where these films and the aforementioned Heisei Mothra trilogy, and Kaneko's own Gamera and Godzilla films involved same tokusatsu crews.[29]
As aforementioned, Gamera the Brave was aimed to restore the child-friendly and heroic ideology from the Heisei Gamera trilogy especially Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, and the film received positive reviews among children and female audiences, however many of tokusatsu fans who favor the Heisei trilogy instead poorly regarded it, leading to its commercial failure.[36] Consequently. various subsequent Gamera productions including its sequels and anime project(s),[11] along with Takashi Miike's Daimajin project were eventually cancelled, while the latter was redeveloped into Daimajin Kanon.[37] Miike's attempt to revive Daimajin eventually materialized in the 2021 film The Great Yokai War: Guardians,[38] where Gamera also made a cameo appearance in the spinoff novel;[39] the 2021 film is an indirect sequel of Miike's 2005 film The Great Yokai War which also made brief references to Gamera.
Legacy
The 2015 kaiju film Love & Peace was influenced by the Gamera franchise where the film bears resemblances to Gamera the Brave and involved stakeholders of the Gamera franchise such as Kiyotaka Taguchi, Tōru Tezuka, and Nippon Eizō Creative.[29][40]
A number of references to the previous Gamera films, including Gamera the Brave, and scrapped Gamera projects were inserted in the 2023 Netflix animation series Gamera Rebirth,[41][42] where the director Hiroyuki Seshita had also participated in the aforementioned Rex: A Dinosaur's Story, and Kazuya Nakai played both General Osborn in Gamera Rebirth and Gametarō, one of the siblings of Toto and the protagonist of Keep it up!! Gametarō (Japanese: がんばれ!! ガメ太郎, Hepburn: Ganbare Gametarō), the spinoff story of Gamera the Brave.[43]
Castings of Kamen Rider Den-O and Kamen Rider: The Next by Ryuta Tasaki were also partially influenced by Gamera the Brave, while the casting of the 2006 Gamera film was instead influenced by the aforementioned Kamen Rider Ryuki by Tasaki,[3][11] who also drew inspirations from Gamera vs. Jiger for his 2025 movie adaptation (jp) of No.1 Sentai Gozyuger.[44]
Home media
Gamera the Brave was released on Region 1 DVD in 2008 by Tokyo Shock.[45][46] The film received a Blu-ray release in July 2016 by Kadokawa Daiei Studio, as part of a box set with 4K digital restorations of the previous films in the Gamera franchise's Heisei era.[47]
It was also released by Arrow Video as part of their Gamera: The Complete Collection box set.[48]
Notes
- ^ After the bankruptcy of Daiei Film, the Gamera franchise might have always tried to avoid direct competition against the Godzilla franchise.[9]
- ^ Its title "Sea Demon Beast" (Japanese: 海魔獣, Hepburn: Kaimajū) closely resembles the title "Giant Sea Demon" (Japanese: 大海魔, Hepburn: Daikaima), alternatively as "Giant Demon Beast" (Japanese: 大魔獣, Hepburn: Daimajū), the scrapped monster film featuring an octopus monster before the productions of Nezura and Gamera. Zedus was also originally intended to be a cephalopod kaiju. The latter title "Giant Demon Beast" was also used for the Japanese title of Gamera vs. Jiger.[3]
- ^ Aside from Zedus' resemblance to the TriStar's Godzilla, the cancelled live-action sequel of the 1998 American film was supposed to feature a civilians to protect the protagonist kaiju from a military force, akin to the climax of Gamera the Brave.[12] Additionally, among its designers, only Tomoo Haraguchi submitted draft designs akin to the final version, while designs by others coincidentally resembled MUTO in MonsterVerse series by Legendary Pictures,[13] where the scrapped project Gamera 3D by Yoshimitsu Banno was one of preceding projects of the 2014 film Godzilla.[14][15]
- ^ Shusuke Kaneko and Kazunori Ito and Shinji Higuchi.
- ^ The intercompany treaty with Nippon TV and Hakuhodo to achieve Kaneko's demand to increase budgets also reduced Tokuma Shoten's revenues.[17]
- ^ The 2003 independent film GAMERA 4-TRUTH by Shinpei Hayashiya reused the plot of the scrapped Gamera 4.[21]
- ^ King Kong's roars by Peter Cullen was reused for Gamera in the 2006 film.[28]
- ^ Nippon Eizō Creative participated in both Gamera and Godzilla franchises, including Gamera the Brave, Heisei Mothra trilogy, Shusuke Kaneko's Heisei Gamera trilogy and GMK, and aforementioned Godzilla: Final Wars.[29]
- ^ Masaichi Nagata contributed in the publication of Bambi, a Life in the Woods in Japan due to his connection with Walt Disney.[30] Toto was refereed as "Bambi" during the early stages of the production.
- ^ The depiction of "Toto Impact", Gamera's empowered fireball at the climax to defeat Zedus, was influenced by Photon torpedoes from the Star Trek franchise.
- ^ Protagonist kaiju to fight against antagonists, and human protagonists hope Gamera not to fight for their fears of Gamera to die.[19]
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