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A ridiculous, amatuerish oddity at best, Kurata's movie seems the work of a depressed hack crying out to be barred as a theatrical director forever. Having first seen it on the USA Network years ago in the 80's under the title, LEGEND OF THE DINOSAURS, I remembered next to nothing about it aside from the bizarre ending and that it had an unusual amount of gory violence.

The Japanese poster artwork would lead you to believe you were gonna see something spectacular.but you would be wrong While it's not so much terrible as it is plodding for the first 40 minutes, once the monsters make their appearance, it becomes a wildly and hilariously absurd movie. It's simply one of the most awful movies I have ever seen. Either Toei's producers simply never visited the set, or everyone was doing some mad drugs. Trumpeted at the time as a big budget Toei epic, something seriously must have went wrong over the course of the production. Junji Kurata's enormously shit-tastic JAWS influenced monster movie is one such case. It's generally quite reasonable to assume if a movie wasn't very impressive to a young impressionable mind, than it's doubtful it will appeal to you once you're older. Sometimes there's a good reason why said film exists only as a fragmented memory. Fuji.Įvery once in a while you remember a fragment of a movie from your childhood. Both creatures eventually meet during an eruption of the long dormant Mt.

A huge pteranodon is awakened from its sleep inside a cavern.

After numerous disappearances and discoveries of mutilated corpses, another threat soon rears its head. Tsunehiko Watase (Bunkichi Ashizawa), Nobiko Sawa (Akiko)Ī paleontologist returns to his lakeside hometown to continue his search for a plesiosaur believed to be living beneath the depths of Lake Sai. LEGEND OF DINOSAURS & MONSTER BIRDS 1977 (KYORYUU: KAICHO NO DENSETSU)

Legend of dinosaurs and monster birds title