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	Godzilla Raids Again - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A monster identical to the Godzilla killed by the Oxygen Destroyer appears, as does a new monster, Anguirus.
		Godzilla was called "Gigantis" in the American release by the distributors, Warner Brothers.
		However, Paul Schreibman, the producer of the American version, said that he changed Godzilla's name to "Gigantis" to give the audience the impression that they were seeing a new monster.
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	Godzilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Showa period saw the addition of many monsters into the Godzilla continuity, three of which (Mothra, Rodan and Varan) had their own solo movies, as well as a movie for the Toho-ized King Kong.
		The exceptions: In Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, he was 60 meters, and in Godzilla: Final Wars, he was 100 meters (he was supposed to be 50 meters in that film, but budgetary cutbacks in miniature sets forced this size change).
		Monster Wars is also the first appearance of a truly cybernetic Godzilla.
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	Movie Reviews: Gigantis, The Fire Monster
		He suggests that fire attracts and enrages these creatures and that flares might be used to draw the monsters away from the cities.
		Gigantis is sighted near Osaka but it is soon speculated that he may bypass the city.
		Gigantis is spotted in the harbor, drawing nearer the city.
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	Encyclopedia: Gigantis the Fire Monster
		Gigantis the Fire Monster (also known as Godzilla Raids Again i) was a Toho film produced in 1955.
		A monster identical to the Godzilla killed by the Oxegen Destroyer appears, as does a new monster, Anguirus.
		Godzilla of the nineties Godzilla (ゴジラ;) is a giant, amphibious, reptilian monster first seen in the Japanese-produced 1954 tokusatsu film Godzilla.
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	cold fire
		Cold Fire is a fire extinguisher product manufactured by Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc which has been on the market in many countries since 1991.
		Cold Fire is a plant-based chemical that undergoes an endothermic reaction in the presence of heat, which means it pulls the heat out of a fire.
		Fire Freeze Worldwide is also working with the U.S. Army (Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah) to use the chemicals in Fire Freeze in conjunction with an enzyme, which combined have promise to thwart biological and chemical warfare.
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	King Kong vs Godzilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is an eccentric departure from the Godzilla norm, featuring a man in a gorilla suit (King Kong), fighting Godzilla, freshly released from his iceberg enclosure from the end of Gigantis the Fire Monster.
		In the original proposed script, the gorilla King Kong was supposed to fight against a giant version of the Frankenstein creature.
		This is mostly false, though the American version features inserted scenes and ends with a roar from Kong alone rather than both monsters, perhaps slanting an otherwise ambiguous outcome, but not a true alternate ending.
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	MusicGigantis
		Gigantis, the Fire Monster first played in the U. in 1959, four years after it was made, and when it was released here, it was missing a large portion of Masaru Satoh’s original film score.
		Gigantis, the Fire Monster is a fairly good entry in the Godzilla cycle, although it isn’t held in as high regard as it probably should be, possibly due to the fact that it’s one of the rarest Godzilla films and hasn’t been seen very often.
		Masaru Satoh’s score for Gigantis, the Fire Monster is not widely appreciated by Godzilla music-lovers, which isn’t surprising considering the film’s rarity, the lack of a composer’s credit in the film, and because so little of his music remains in the picture.
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	Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
		A plan was put into action to burry the monster under the ice using missiles fired from Air Force planes.
		The same monster is called Gigantis in one scene and Anguirusaurus in the next.
		The film itself (Gigantis) should be shown to all film students as a “what not to do to a foreign film” lecture.
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	KENSFORCE.COM :: View topic - THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT "GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER& (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Paul Schreibman, the producer of the American version, said that he changed Godzilla's name to "Gigantis" because that was the name of his dog at the time.
		Gigantis is a common pseudonym used by members of the Screen Monsters Guild when their films were clearly taken away from her/him and recut heavily against her/his wishes in ways that completely altered the film.
		* The dorsal fins on the monster in Gigantis were kept about the same size and shape as the original Godzilla and there were still four toes on each foot, proving once again that I have far too much time on my hands.
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	monster
		Monster is a term for any number of legendary creatures that frequently appear in mythology, legend, and horror fiction.
		It almost always implies that the creatures are powerful and hostile to the hero, and must be overcome to succeed in the quest.
		It is an ugly looking, but fully sentient rock like monster that could spray a powerful acid and was killing miners in the mines of a planet.
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	Movie Review: "Godzilla Raids Again"
		Gigantis oversees this and heads for the shore of Osaka again.
		During a party, Tsukioka and Kobayashi are notified that Gigantis destroyed one of the fishing boats.
		He notifies the cannery and Kobayashi comes in his plane to take his place on keeping track where Gigantis is. Tsukioka is then transferred to the air force and travels on one of his buddies' jets.
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	Gigantis the Fire Monster
		The other monster, of course, is Godzilla (or Giganits in the American version-— Warner Brothers apparently feared this movie would be mistaken for a reissue of the first movie if the monster went by its real name).
		Because the monster’s lair is at the blind end of a deep, narrow box canyon, it ought to be possible to bury him completely, if only enough ordinance were dropped on the surrounding cliffs.
		Watching Gigantis the Fire Monster, you really get the feeling the producers of the American version expected the audiences watching it to be composed entirely of imbeciles with all the imagination of your average turnip.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Gappa the Triphibian Monsters at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MONSTER FROM A PREHISTORIC PLANET, is another Japanese monster movie a la Godzilla, but instead of being produced by the studio responsible for all the Godzilla movie, Toho, GAPPA was produced by rival studio Nikkatsu.
		Really, this one is a pretty sad attempt to take the tried and true “monster family” movie to the box office bank, and due to a noticeable lack of quality effects work and action, it falls flat.
		The story of the young monster being exploited for use in an amusement park was an idea that was used in numerous Toho films, most notably in GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA (1964) when Mothra’s egg was “bought” by an entrepreneur who intended to build a large public attraction and feature the egg in it.
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	kaijuphile.com Forums - Gigantis, the fire monster OR Godzilla vs monster zero
		Gigantis, the fire monster OR Godzilla vs monster zero
		The elusive and mysterious...UK Gigantis the fire monster, or Godzilla vs Monster Zero?
		Monster Zero's fun yeah, but most of it is just a rehash of Ghidrah only with aliens being the main part of the plot.
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	Scifilm -- Reviews, GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER (1966)
		Then Godzilla fires his breath to boil the sea beast in the water and I can't help but think that at $20/pound this thing is worth a king's ransom.
		When the monsters are passing the boulder around like a tennis ball, it's a tough pill to swallow.
		Then again, the soldiers, sure enough, do go after the heroic group after the monster awakens, so perhaps the translation is not to blame, but it is in fact the writing.
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	The Godzilla Clan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)--the original Tokyo stomper.
		Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1972)--Hedorah, a glob of goo.
		For a critical analysis of this monster and its possible symbolic significance, see this essay on Gojira.
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	Toho Monster Marches Volume 2
		In many cases these films featured musical intros or preludes before the main titles, and while these cues usually appear as separate tracks on their original soundtrack albums, here they are conveniently combined with their corresponding title themes.
		There are also a couple of added treats - the main title to the original "Godzilla" is the rarely-compiled film version (where the monster's footsteps and roars are heard during the title music), and the theme to "King Kong vs. Godzilla" is the rare stereo version.
		The second half of the CD is devoted to the trademark themes of individual monsters from the Godzilla series, as well as a selection of military marches and action themes.
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	Gigantis the Fire Monster
		Kobayashi's plane is hit by the monster's incendiary breath and he is killed, and as his plane crashes, a small amount of ice rains down on the creature.
		Tsukioka gets an idea from his friend's death and directs the military aircraft to fire their missiles — which have proved ineffective when used directly against Godzilla —; at the icy slopes.
		Godzilla is soon overwhelmed and buried by the ever-rising cascade of ice, and the dinosaur is frozen solid and immobile in the center of the glacier-size sheet of ice.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Godzilla Raids Again at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When originally released in the U.S. in 1959, it was called GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER, even though it obviously was a follow up to the original GODZILLA which did well in Japanese and domestic box offices.
		Of course, the monsters set a course for Japan, and soon the city of Osaka is being leveled by the onslaught of the two monsters.
		Here, the monsters seem almost instinctual, as instead of flipping one another over, they seem content to go for the throat and close off the breathing of the other: a much more logical and realistic case scenario one would think.
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	One Million Miles From Taste- Gigantis The Fire Monster
		The monster in this film is referred to as Gigantis yet looks just like Godzilla (only with a bad overbite), and is supposed to be another monster different from the one in the first film.
		Once back on the mainland, they report what they saw and are told what they saw were a Gigantis and an Angilus, two prehistoric monsters that have been brought out of hibernation by atomic testing.
		The two monsters now converge upon Osaka to battle each other in the middle of the city and make quite a mess of it in the process.
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	Sci-Fi Classics of 1955
		Also released that year were Gigantis, The Fire Monster (really Godzilla in everything but name) which featured TWO giant monsters fighting over Tokyo real estate, Tarantula, the second "big bug" movie and another Ray Harryhausen stop-motion monster in the film It Came From Beneath The Sea.
		This time out, Gigantis (Godzilla) would fight Anguras after both are awakened from sleep by atomic testing.
		As the monster comes up from the ocean floor maddened by exposure to radiation, it goes on to attack ships and in a spectacular sequence, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
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	Gigantis The Fire Monster
		The three main drawbacks to the American version, along with the renaming of Godzilla as "Gigantis," are the alterations to the conference scene, the script, and the dubbing.
		However, the dubbing in Gigantis, the Fire Monster is simply awful, and the voice used for Kobayashi is especially bad.
		Variety deemed Gigantis, the Fire Monster to be "inept and tedious," stating that "The Japanese have made some good ones (movies) of this type, but Gigantis is not one of them." Conceding that "The Japanese miniature work (in Gigantis) is remarkably good.
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	Anguirus - TheBestLinks.com - Godzilla, Gigantis the Fire Monster, Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla on Monster Island, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anguirus - TheBestLinks.com - Godzilla, Gigantis the Fire Monster, Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla on Monster Island,...
		Anguirus, Godzilla, Gigantis the Fire Monster, Destroy All Monsters...
		An Anguirus is a daikaiju featured in the films, Gigantis the Fire Monster, Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla on Monster Island, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (briefly), and in some other films (very briefly, usually in stock footage)
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	Godzilla and the Second World War
		Fans of the Japanese science fiction/fantasy genre around the globe celebrated the "King of the Monsters" 40th anniversary on November 3rd, 1994, for it was on that date in 1954 that Toho Studios unleashed Godzilla on an unsuspecting public.
		The monster Godzilla is the United States' atomic bomb, devastating Tokyo and reducing it to a radioactive cinder all in one night.
		Unlike typical monster films of the time, the strong character-driven plot and the special effects combined to present a glimpse of the Japanese psyche in a time of war.
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	Godzilla vs the Sea Monster (1966)
		The model work is far more shoddy than is usual even for this series - the water effects are sloppy and no consistent size difference is ever maintained between the monsters, especially in the attack on Godzilla by the planes, which he happily crushes one at a time in a single paw.
		Fukuda raised the standard somewhat with his next entry, the likable Son of Godzilla (1968), but from this point onwards the Godzilla series was well on its way down to a very juvenile level.
		(1965), Son of Godzilla (1968), Destroy All Monsters (1968), Godzilla’s Revenge (1969), Godzilla vs the Smog Monster/Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971), Godzilla vs Gigan/Godzilla on Monster Island (1972), Godzilla vs Megalon (1973), Godzilla vs the Cosmic Monster/Godzilla vs the Bionic Monster/Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974), Terror of Mechagodzilla/Monsters from an Unknown Planet (1976), Godzilla 1985 (1984),
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/gvsseamonster.htm (521 words)

	Godzilla - Japanese Movie Monster Legend
		Godzilla refers to a series of kaiju (strange beast or monster), or more specifically daikaiju (giant monster), films made in Japan.
		Godzilla is believed to have originally been intended by Toho to represent the United States of America (being superior in its destructive capability) and took the form of a radioactive prehistoric reptile.
		Given that his origin (in the 1954 film) was the ocean, Godzilla can be considered not just a monster, but a sea monster.
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