Steven at Godzilla Final Wars Premiere !!
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Amos Stevens
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Thanks Tora for the reminder-yes ladies you have a romantic thread to discuss your sharing of Seagal...
ORANGATUANG said:
ahhaah dear Heather, you are great..like you lots, yes?
I think there's any misunderstandig here LOL !! I meant about competition...so many girls too passionate for Steven !!!! not necessary never competition about a place in his heart !!!
I'm sure that he is too happy for this. His phone rings "no stop" !! ahahah and you are included...you deserve, girl ! Look at pic below...always ready for a meeting! LOL
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ORANGATUANG
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Thanks isamarie the feelings mutual ...ok back to where we should be i will go see this movie hope uts as good as the first one...iam not going to say what happened in the first one iam not an party pooper....
Amos Stevens
New Member
Yep you have it right this time Suziwong 
GAMERA, THE GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE
(Gamera Daikaiju Kuchu Kessen)
Rating: ½
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Japan. 1995.
Director - Shusuke Kaneko, Screenplay - Kazunori Ito, General Producer - Yasuyochi Jokuma, Photography - Kenji Takara & Junichi Tozawa, Music - Ko Otani, Special Effects Director - Shinji Higuchi, Production Design - Hajime Oikawa. Production Company - Daiei/NTV Network/Hakuhodo.
Cast:
Shinobu Nakayawa (Miyumi Nagamine), Tsuyoshi Ihara (Yoshinari Yonemori), Ayako Fujitani (Asagi Kusanago), Yukijiro Hotari (Inspector Oosako), Hirotaro Honda (Mr Saito)
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Plot: A moving atoll appears at sea on the site where radioactive waste is about to be dumped. Nearby Himegami Island is then suddenly attacked by large reptilian birds. Attempts are made to capture these, but then a giant-sized turtle appears out of the sea and takes on the birds. An ancient plaque is found on the atoll and when translated reveals the creatures were created by an ancient civilization, the birds being the Gyaos and the turtle Gamera. But as the military hunt both down, schoolgirl Asagi Kusanago develops an empathic link with Gamera, being hurt whenever it is. She realizes that Gamera has been created to destroy the Gyaos who are causing devastation in order to bring the world back to the polluted state they are used to living in.
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Created by Daiei Studios, Gamera was always a lesser cousin of rival studio Toho’s more popular Godzilla. The first Gamera film, Gammera the Invincible (1966), was one of a host of other giant monster movies copying Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954). Gamera then fought through several sequels (see below for other titles) which also mimicked the tah taken by Toho’s Godzilla films in turning Gamera into a defender of Japan and pitting it up against other monsters and alien invaders. After one thoroughly mediocre revival a decade later, Gamera Super Monster (1980), Gamera then languished forgotten.
That was until the arrival of Gamera, The Guardian of the Universe. With Godzilla 1985 (1984) and then from 1990 onwards, Toho created a whole new wave of Godzilla films. With Gamera, The Guardian of the Universe, Daiei revived Gamera in direct competition to the modern Godzilla films, taking full advantage of modern effects technology (and later CGI effects). In fact they were so successful that Guardian of the Universe immediately became the new bar by which all subsequent Japanese monster movies began to measure themselves and made its director Shusuke Kaneko one of the most exciting names in modern Japanese fantastic cinema.
Since his breakthrough with Guardian, Kaneko has emerged as a real master of effects spectacle. Guardian suffers from some occasionally spotty effects - the creatures are glassy-eyed and not always very expressive, the missiles are clearly animated. [All of this would improve markedly by the time of Kaneko’s awe-inspiring Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999)]. But it is superbly staged. For the first half-hour the monsters are kept only briefly glimpsed - but then the film erupts in an enthrallingly staged shootout with the Gyaos birds trapped inside a stadium and then the appearance of Gamera, spectacularly rising up out of the harbour. And despite the somewhat immobile creatures there is nothing at all wrong with the models and pyrotechnics when it comes to Kaneko’s superb slambang climax. There’s all the usual mass destruction here - laser beams sawing through entire buildings, Gyaos rising up and flapping its wings and causing vast tornadoes, colossal explosions, shots from interiors of offices as the building is collapsing - and Kaneko conducts it with mesmerizing regard. Sometimes the images Kaneko creates go beyond being mere model shots and have an enormous beauty - like the shot of Gamera perched on a toppled tower as the sun sets over Tokyo.
The plot alas is a rather silly affair which shuffles around a lot of themes and cliches familiar to the Japanese monster movie - Atlantis/Mu, mysterious artifacts made of unknown metals, teenage girls with empathic connections to the monster, and of course the old chestnut from the 1970s of the monster being created by pollution - here the evil Gyaos went into hibernation and was not resurrected until conditions in the world (acid rain, radioactive waste being dumped at sea) returned to the state it was most used to. The English language dubbing is surprisingly good. The actress playing the empathic schoolgirl is Steven Seagal’s daughter Ayako Fujitani.
The other Gamera films are:- Gammera the Invincible (1966), War of the Monsters/Gamera vs Baragon (1966), Return of the Giant Monsters/Gamera vs Gyaos (1967), Destroy All Planets (1968), Attack of the Monsters/Gamera vs Guiron (1969), Gamera vs Monster X/Gamera vs Jiger (1970), Gamera vs Zigra (1971) and Gamera Super Monster (1980)
Kaneko’s subsequent Gamera entries were:- Gamera 2: Assault of the Legion (1996) and Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999). Kaneko also directed genre films such as the The Cold episode of the H.P. Lovecraft anthology Necronomicon (1994), School Ghost Story 3 (1997), the spectacular pyrokinesis film Cross Fire/Pyrokinesis (2000) and then moved over to Toho for Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah (2001).
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Copyright Richard Scheib 2002
GAMERA, THE GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE
(Gamera Daikaiju Kuchu Kessen)
Rating: ½
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Japan. 1995.
Director - Shusuke Kaneko, Screenplay - Kazunori Ito, General Producer - Yasuyochi Jokuma, Photography - Kenji Takara & Junichi Tozawa, Music - Ko Otani, Special Effects Director - Shinji Higuchi, Production Design - Hajime Oikawa. Production Company - Daiei/NTV Network/Hakuhodo.
Cast:
Shinobu Nakayawa (Miyumi Nagamine), Tsuyoshi Ihara (Yoshinari Yonemori), Ayako Fujitani (Asagi Kusanago), Yukijiro Hotari (Inspector Oosako), Hirotaro Honda (Mr Saito)
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Plot: A moving atoll appears at sea on the site where radioactive waste is about to be dumped. Nearby Himegami Island is then suddenly attacked by large reptilian birds. Attempts are made to capture these, but then a giant-sized turtle appears out of the sea and takes on the birds. An ancient plaque is found on the atoll and when translated reveals the creatures were created by an ancient civilization, the birds being the Gyaos and the turtle Gamera. But as the military hunt both down, schoolgirl Asagi Kusanago develops an empathic link with Gamera, being hurt whenever it is. She realizes that Gamera has been created to destroy the Gyaos who are causing devastation in order to bring the world back to the polluted state they are used to living in.
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Created by Daiei Studios, Gamera was always a lesser cousin of rival studio Toho’s more popular Godzilla. The first Gamera film, Gammera the Invincible (1966), was one of a host of other giant monster movies copying Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954). Gamera then fought through several sequels (see below for other titles) which also mimicked the tah taken by Toho’s Godzilla films in turning Gamera into a defender of Japan and pitting it up against other monsters and alien invaders. After one thoroughly mediocre revival a decade later, Gamera Super Monster (1980), Gamera then languished forgotten.
That was until the arrival of Gamera, The Guardian of the Universe. With Godzilla 1985 (1984) and then from 1990 onwards, Toho created a whole new wave of Godzilla films. With Gamera, The Guardian of the Universe, Daiei revived Gamera in direct competition to the modern Godzilla films, taking full advantage of modern effects technology (and later CGI effects). In fact they were so successful that Guardian of the Universe immediately became the new bar by which all subsequent Japanese monster movies began to measure themselves and made its director Shusuke Kaneko one of the most exciting names in modern Japanese fantastic cinema.
Since his breakthrough with Guardian, Kaneko has emerged as a real master of effects spectacle. Guardian suffers from some occasionally spotty effects - the creatures are glassy-eyed and not always very expressive, the missiles are clearly animated. [All of this would improve markedly by the time of Kaneko’s awe-inspiring Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999)]. But it is superbly staged. For the first half-hour the monsters are kept only briefly glimpsed - but then the film erupts in an enthrallingly staged shootout with the Gyaos birds trapped inside a stadium and then the appearance of Gamera, spectacularly rising up out of the harbour. And despite the somewhat immobile creatures there is nothing at all wrong with the models and pyrotechnics when it comes to Kaneko’s superb slambang climax. There’s all the usual mass destruction here - laser beams sawing through entire buildings, Gyaos rising up and flapping its wings and causing vast tornadoes, colossal explosions, shots from interiors of offices as the building is collapsing - and Kaneko conducts it with mesmerizing regard. Sometimes the images Kaneko creates go beyond being mere model shots and have an enormous beauty - like the shot of Gamera perched on a toppled tower as the sun sets over Tokyo.
The plot alas is a rather silly affair which shuffles around a lot of themes and cliches familiar to the Japanese monster movie - Atlantis/Mu, mysterious artifacts made of unknown metals, teenage girls with empathic connections to the monster, and of course the old chestnut from the 1970s of the monster being created by pollution - here the evil Gyaos went into hibernation and was not resurrected until conditions in the world (acid rain, radioactive waste being dumped at sea) returned to the state it was most used to. The English language dubbing is surprisingly good. The actress playing the empathic schoolgirl is Steven Seagal’s daughter Ayako Fujitani.
The other Gamera films are:- Gammera the Invincible (1966), War of the Monsters/Gamera vs Baragon (1966), Return of the Giant Monsters/Gamera vs Gyaos (1967), Destroy All Planets (1968), Attack of the Monsters/Gamera vs Guiron (1969), Gamera vs Monster X/Gamera vs Jiger (1970), Gamera vs Zigra (1971) and Gamera Super Monster (1980)
Kaneko’s subsequent Gamera entries were:- Gamera 2: Assault of the Legion (1996) and Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999). Kaneko also directed genre films such as the The Cold episode of the H.P. Lovecraft anthology Necronomicon (1994), School Ghost Story 3 (1997), the spectacular pyrokinesis film Cross Fire/Pyrokinesis (2000) and then moved over to Toho for Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah (2001).
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Copyright Richard Scheib 2002
Clement3000
aka The Phoenix
Wow Seagal looks great, thanks for the pictures Suzi.
tora
Funmaker
suziwong said:
When you said you thought that I thought I'd have to use my imagination hard to see Ayako as Godzilla but then...with Japanese technology anything is possible...But Suzi,I have to tel you,you have such an imagination
Or perhaps I'm wrong-now tell me,is it you in that costume spying on Seagal?Thanks to all of you for the information about this Godzilla movie : To Suzi for posting the original pictures, to TD for remembering the connection to Steven's daughter, Ayako, to Amos for such a nicely detailed article about the movie itself, to Suzi once again for more pics--and to me for thanking all of you. What a team! 
: To Suzi for posting the original pictures, to TD for remembering the connection to Steven's daughter, Ayako, to Amos for such a nicely detailed article about the movie itself, to Suzi once again for more pics--and to me for thanking all of you. What a team! 
Amos Stevens
New Member
YOu're welcome & thanks Suziwong for the photos