Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (Gamera daikaiju kuchu kessen)

Name: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (Gamera daikaiju kuchu kessen)
Duration: 1 h 36 min

1hr 36m

1hr 36m
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An ornithologist investigates reports of a monstrous new species of bird just as a teenage girl is gifted an amulet found on mysterious atoll. As the creatures… More Details »

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Director:

Shûsuke Kaneko

Producer:

Matt Greenfield, Toshio Hagiwara, Tetsuya Ikeda

Writer:

Kazunori Itô, James Shanks

Runtime:

1hr 36m

Synopsis

An ornithologist investigates reports of a monstrous new species of bird just as a teenage girl is gifted an amulet found on mysterious atoll. As the creatures begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to the girl emerges.

Cast

Tsuyoshi Ihara
Akira Onodera
Shinobu Nakayama
Ayako Fujitani
Yukijirô Hotaru
Hatsunori Hasegawa
Hirotarô Honda
Akira Kubo
Kôjirô Hongô
Takashi Matsuo

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3.6

no joke i love gamera's characterization in this

368 Likes

pd187

Mar 9, 2024

Some of you have never seen a grown man in a rubber suit pretending to be a giant spinning turtle fight another man in a rubber suit pretending to be a googly-eyed pterodactyl and it shows.

297 Likes

CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️

Jan 27, 2020

HOLLYWOOD: The only way to make giant monster movies that aren't silly and dumb is to make them drab, colourless, and take place entirely at night in either rain or ash.* 90s GAMERA: lol. whut? Big, a little clumsy, and a satisfying leap forward in how to make a…

204 Likes

Justin Decloux
Jun 3, 2019

During my Godzilla and Friends Marathon, I learned that Shusuke Kaneko, director of Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, also directed a trilogy of Gamera films in the nineties. I immediately knew that I would have to watch them the second I…

195 Likes

Aberrant Ghoul

Feb 3, 2022

man the monsters look so good in this. and the city destruction too. just a really really solid heisei kaiju flick. love to see puppets eating meat and drooling slime

168 Likes

cameron fetter

Jul 10, 2025

KAIJULY: GAMERA, THE MIGHTY TURTLE Just like with Goji, after going full silly and goofy, Gamera (sort of) returns with a more serious film in which we get very little of our actual title character. It's mostly focused on the human stuff, and to be fair, that was solid. In…

167 Likes

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine
Sep 20, 2025

The boy loves this one. He gives it a thousand stars.

152 Likes

carrieandtracy

Nov 8, 2025

“gamera is really on our side!” I love watching how kaiju films handle creature design, especially when you move between eras and tones. So going into this, I was excited – this is the start of the 90s Heisei Gamera trilogy, the one I’ve always heard was darker, more…

128 Likes

Tim Fehrenbach

Jan 3, 2025

Made possible by the success of Toho's '90s Godzilla films, this slicky-produced Gamera adventure revived everyone's favourite giant flying turtle as a hero not just for kids. Not a reinvention of the kaiju genre, just a very satisfying example of it. Good-looking, fun, and…

114 Likes

Will Sloan

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Matt loved

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

holy smokes! this is a monster movie! I would highly highly recommend this movie to anyone who loves fun movies

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Joshua Kennard loved

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

I'll put in love for now the others in the trilogy will probably change this rankings back to like again

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Cat Beast loved

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

This movie was on par with the godzilla heisei era movies. It deserves more recognition i mean it. 8/10

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Martin Latour liked

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

Very impressive special effects. Could totally see how it influenced the Toku genre.

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