Comments on: New Daikaiju: Gehara the Hairy

By: Undead Backbrain » Blog Archive » It’s a MM(+9)ystery!

Undead Backbrain » Blog Archive » It’s a MM(+9)ystery! — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:38:42 +0000

[...] here, here, here and here (the full film as initially broadcast). Also on Undead Brainspasm: [...]

By: Undead Backbrain » Blog Archive » Fluff Caught in the Hairy Kaiju’s Hair

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:54:54 +0000

[...] video review the film. It includes pictures you can see above and in the Backbrain’s previous article on Gehara — and it isn’t in English — but it is interesting to try and guess [...]

By: Backbrain

Backbrain — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:12:51 +0000

I agree, Jacob. I was way more interested before I realised it was a parody. (Though I’m still interested…)

Endless parodies are, I’m afraid, a sign of a genre’s decadence….

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:04:16 +0000

Feel a bit disappointed it’s just another parody, but I do think the monster is interesting.

By: Avery

Avery — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:30:35 +0000

Thanks ‘Enshohma’ and ‘August’ for brining us word of another new kaiju film. This one looks crazy-cool.

By: Backbrain

Backbrain — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:58:00 +0000

By the way, Raf, I’m alway emailable on spookshow [at] roberthood.net.

By: Backbrain

Backbrain — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:56:41 +0000

Thanks for all that information, August. I guess my less-than-accurate interpretation of the less-than-accurate Google translation of the Japanese webpages was… well, less than accurate.

By: August Ragone

August Ragone — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:45:36 +0000

Just wanted to say that the film is a mini-movie and was supervised by Shinji Higuchi, who provided the visual effects for the Gamera trilogy of the 1990s. He later went onto direct LORELEI (2005) and THE SINKING OF JAPAN (2007).

Anyhow, if you want, you can check out my blog for the more details on this made-for-television mini-movie:
http://augustragone.blogspot.com/

Cheers,
August

By: Enshohma (AKA Raf)

Enshohma (AKA Raf) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:02:46 +0000

I just want to say thanks man for the shout out, it’s very much appreciated and a highlight of an otherwise bland day; the project has been floating around online for some time, but I guess I was the crack that let loose the flood waters, for lack of a better analogy. August Ragone posted more information on the film BTW, which I’ll share here since I can’t e-mail you…

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I read about this last month in “Uchusen” magazine… 「長髪大怪獣ゲハラ」 (Chohatsu Daikaiju Gehara) or LONG-HAIRED GIANT MONSTER: GEHARA* is the full title.

This made for TV movie is yet another parody of the genre (one of the JSDF plans to stop Gehara is called “Operation Perm”!?), and was conceived and written by cult entertainer Jun Miura, and production helmed and supervised by visual effects wizard and director Shinji Higuchi for the NHK network. GEHARA was directed by visual effects artist Kiyotaka Taguchi, who recently produced the indie kaiju movie G, and will air in Japan on February 24th.

Here’s the cast for GEHARA: Ken Osawa (Samurai Fiction) as Hideo Akihara, San Diego-born Mina Fujii as Momoko Akihara, Mitsuko Oka (Virus) as Tsuruko Akihara, Shiro Sano (Godzilla 2000) as Professor Mikami, Tomorowo Taguchi (Bullet Ballet) as the Shrine Priest, Kanji Tsuda (Gamera the Brave) as Kubo the Fisherman, Hiroyuki Watanabe (Ultraman Gaia) as JSDF Commander, Pierre Taki (Always: Sunset on Third Street) as the Tank Commander and comedian Terry Ito.

*Ghosts and monsters (Obake, Yurei and Yokai) with long hair have traditionally been considered scary by Japanese standards, as seen in films like KWAIDAN (1964) and EXTE (2007).