Godzilla Vs Hedorah

Starring:Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase, Keiko Mari, Toshio Shiba, Yukihiko Gondo, Eisaburo Komatsu, Tadashi Okabe, Wataru Omae, Susumu Okabe, Haruo Nakajima, Kenpachiro Satsuma, Teruzo Okawa
Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

A decent move but not as good as the earlier movies
ODD, BIZARRE, PSYCHEDELIC, BUT FOR SOME REASON A TRULY ENJOYABLE GODZILLA FILM WITH A SERIOUS MESSAGE.................
What were they smoking?
smog
One of the BEST, but come on Sony release the AIP cut!!

Godzilla Vs Hedorah
Starring: Akira Yamauchi , Toshie Kimura , Hiroyuki Kawase , Keiko Mari , and Toshio Shiba
Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002V7OEM
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Customer Reviews:

A decent move but not as good as the earlier movies.......2007-05-08

In godzilla versus Hedorah the citizens of Japan a threatened by a new monster. A gigantic monster made out of sluge and waste chemical called Hedorah or hedra in the japanese version. Who like Destroyer has different forms its can turn into some smaller and weaker than others. In its final form it is a tower giant which emits gases that can scar flease and disolove all humands raims except there bones resulting instant death. He also ahs and acids that crods metal. He also was the first enemy Godizilla though that had any laser beam like weapons. Originally the monster Gigan when he was first created was capable of shout a laser from between his eyes but this power was never used in any of three godzilla movies he stared in. Can godzilla save earth from this vile creature of death and posion. This movie should be fine for kids thirteen in up due to high scifi violence, thematic elements and occasionally guersome images for a movie of its time when it was released back in mid 1969 or 1970 it was graphic. I also thought I'd inform you that the save the earth theme song for some reason I never figured out the save the earth Theme song was not Redubbed into english for the DVD realses. I also thought I'd inform you there are also two new godzila dvd come out on June 5, 2007 one is Ghidorah the three headed monster which up till now has been only avilable in the UHS in the use the other is new dvd verison of Astro Monster or Godzilla versus monster zero as it was renamed in the us which may have both the Japanese and english version of the movie included because that's what there doing for the Ghidorah dvd release. If you like this see the other godzilla films the only ones you might not want to see unless your a extreme godzilla phanatic our the son of Godzilla our Godzilla revenge which may seem to little kidish due to the lack of destruction of buildings and vehicles that was seen in the earlier movies and few brief occasional scenes of violence.

ODD, BIZARRE, PSYCHEDELIC, BUT FOR SOME REASON A TRULY ENJOYABLE GODZILLA FILM WITH A SERIOUS MESSAGE........................2007-02-04

A strange Godzilla movie. I saw "Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster" in the movies in 1972. The dubbing is not very good, but the high definition remastering is incredible despite some of the movies dark lighted scenes. The anomorphic widescreen presentation of this film is awesome. "Save The Earth" is not sung in english (RATS!!!!) as it is sung in Japanese, it does'nt matter as I know the words from my childhood days. Yoshimitsu Bano the director of Smog Monster would be directing this movie as it would be his last for Toho Pictures. Yoshimitsu Banno angered Toho studios so much because they wanted a child orientated Godzilla movie. What Banno gave them was a crying baby trapped in the Hedorahs deadly sludge, knowing full aware that the baby was eventually to die. Another disturbing scene was when Hedorah flies over some people they are incinerated and turn to bones. A crying cat in a night club was trapped in sludge as you were aware of its final outcome. The drug, pot smoking hippies were cool in their night club scene with their dancing to the Psychedelic lighted back drop. The thing that was really interesting and facinating was the animated explanations about the Hedorah and pollution. The music score by Riichiro Manabe for this movie was really cool and far out there. My favorite part of the music score was towards the end when Godzilla flies after Hedorah (the drum roll as Godzilla takes off and than the big horns and the organ rip as Godzilla catches up to Hedorah).
Toho was concerned about offending children with this Godzilla release due to some graphic scenes. No Godzilla movie before Smog Monster was ever as graphic and offensive as this one, and this was in my opinion Godzillas whimp stage in his movie career as Toho tried to make Godzilla more human like to appeal more to children. What a mistake that was, as I am not crazy about the Godzilla mask in this installment of the Godzilla films. If you look when Godzilla is wallowing in the mud pit that Hedorah dropped him in, you could see the Godzilla mask from "Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster 1966". This is definintly not one of my favorite Godzilla movies but I enjoyed this movie for it's message about pollution and its dark message of profit despite the pollution it creates. This same message (pollution) was used in Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1964) but clearly more visible in Smog Monster. I also enjoyed the creativity that went into the production of this movie. Yoshimitsu Banno presented a grim message about pollution and was banned from Toho pictures after "Godzilla Vs. Hedorah" but he really tackled a growing pollution problem in Japan at the time of this pictures production and release. There are no extra materials on this dvd release, but it is worth buying for the high definition widecreen presentation and clear sound. "Godzilla Vs. Hedorah" is embarassing at times, but an oddly, facinating, interesting Godzilla movie. Even Godzilla was a Hippie, HAA!!, HAA!!, HAA!!, HAA!!............

What were they smoking?.......2006-12-12

Godzilla vs Hedorah is insane even by later Godzilla standards, a surreal mix of monster mash, message movie, kiddie flick, 1960s educational shorts, groovy protest songs, go-go dancers wearing fish masks, terrible special effects and basic Sesame Street style animated inserts as Friend of the Earth Godzilla takes on a giant toxic flying tadpole that craps acid on him, drowns mah-jong players in excrement and farts deadly toxic fumes over the population of Japan. Introduced with a slide trombone theme straight out of a Laurel and Hardy get drunk comedy, Godzilla has never looked camper, mincing his way through his underpowered punchups with the allegorical scheissencritter - Hedorah is basically just a vertical turd with a tail and glowing red eyes. It's tempting to believe from the number of times Mr G wipes his nose that this was during the big feller's cocaine period, but he seems all too aware of the humiliation: at one point he even turns to the camera and shakes his head to the audience in disbelief.

As others have noted, for those who want to watch the film dubbed, the English soundtrack is one prepared by Toho rather than the one used for AIP's re-edited version of the film, Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster.

smog.......2006-09-07

this is my favorite of all the godzilla movies, it always has been. i remember seeing it at the drive in theater back in the 70s. it's way too much fun. i give it 1 star because when i read one of the other reviews that gave it one star i thought 'wow that guy hates the movie for all the reasons i like it', therefore i think one star is actually a very high compliment in this genre of movies.

One of the BEST, but come on Sony release the AIP cut!!.......2006-06-03

As much as some G-fans may call this the worst G-film ever, it is really one of the best. The film has absolutely no stock footage in it at all like other G flicks have. Ya, the part where Godzilla flies does kinda ruin it a bit but the film up until then is awesome, very good kaiju action, decent actors, funky music, and a little bit of horror. Most people don't know but this film was the only Godzilla flick that was put on rental shelves as a horror flick not a sci-fi flick for good reason. For small children(under 8) this is not a film they need to be seeing even though I saw it when I was 4.

Video: crisp remastered widescreen, absolutely fantastic.

Audio: wasn't able to test the 5.1 since I don't have a 5.1 system but the regular audio sounded pretty darn good.

Dubbing: Ok, my only problem with this version. Some reviewers either haven't seen the AIP cut or don't think there is a difference. There IS! This DVD has the horrible Toho International dubbing which at this time their dubbing was just bad, in later films they start doing a better job but here it's just horrid. The AIP cut sounds so much better, the voices fit much better and the "Save the Earth" song is translated! "True" kaiju fans will say just use the Japanese audio track, but I grew up on the AIP cut, and to have it ommitted and potentially cast into oblivion is just wrong.

Sony, please, please, please release the AIP cut with the remastered widescreen video!!!

Godzilla DVD Collection 5-Pack (Godzilla (1998) / Godzilla 2000 /Godzilla vs. Hedorah /Godzilla vs. Gigan /Godzillla vs. Mechagodzilla)

Average customer rating:

No 2000 SE
This is a great collection, but...
will godzilla 2000 be rereleased seperately?

Godzilla DVD Collection 5-Pack (Godzilla (1998) / Godzilla 2000 /Godzilla vs. Hedorah /Godzilla vs. Gigan /Godzillla vs. Mechagodzilla)
Starring: Matthew Broderick , Jean Reno , Maria Pitillo , Hank Azaria , and Kevin Dunn
Director: Roland Emmerich , Takao Okawara , and Yoshimitsu Banno
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002V7OF6
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Customer Reviews:

No 2000 SE.......2004-10-21

I just got this and it doesn't have the Godzilla 2000 Special Edition. Just the regular English dub. It seems like everyone was saying that the 2000 dub/sub would be in here, so I'm wondering where the misinformation originated. The only saving grace is the 3 oldies with the original Japanese track.

This is a great collection, but..........2004-10-20

It may not contain a Japanese/English Special Edition of Godzilla 2000. According to some early reports, this is the same English-only DVD released a few years ago. So, don't buy the box unless you don't any of the films and you also want the U.S Godzilla.

will godzilla 2000 be rereleased seperately?.......2004-08-25

this set is a good set because it has three dvds i dont have and also apparently godzilla 2000 is a new special edition with the japanese version on the other side of the disc! unfortunately those are joined by the worst godzilla film of them all the american godzilla. a dvd that most huge godzilla fans already own like me and that casual fans don't want to own. unfortunately us huge fans may be forced to buy this because of the godzilla 2000 dvd. there is no place i can find to order this seperately so i am very afraid that i will have to buy this. this is a problem because of the cost and also i want to ask for the godzilla dvds for christmas but no one will buy me a five disc set for christmas. its to expensive. so please tristar release the special edition of godzilla 2000 seperataley. just because you have a bunch of extra copies of your bad movie doesn't meen we should have to buy it to get a good movie. UPDATE 10/18/04 the godzilla 2000 disc will NOT have the japanese cut! I recommend this to nobody unless you dont have any of these discs buy the new ones seperately and dont encourage Sony's lies about what is on the dvd's consider my review a one star now.

Godzilla DVD Collection 3-Pack (Godzilla (1998) / Godzilla vs. Hedorah / Godzilla vs. Gigan)

Average customer rating:

why the american godzilla why why!?!?

Godzilla DVD Collection 3-Pack (Godzilla (1998) / Godzilla vs. Hedorah / Godzilla vs. Gigan)
Starring: Matthew Broderick , Jean Reno , Maria Pitillo , Hank Azaria , and Kevin Dunn
Director: Roland Emmerich , Yoshimitsu Banno , and Jun Fukuda
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002V7OEW
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Customer Reviews:

why the american godzilla why why!?!?.......2004-08-25

this set would be great if only they released it as the three new dvds coming out. but instead what you get is two good dvds and one bad dvd that you may even already own. if they had released this as a set of all three of the new dvds i probably would have gotten it but its not so i am not going to buy this. if you want these three movies than buy the five disc set with these three the other new dvd and a new godzilla 2000 special edition with the japanese version included. although that should just be a four disc set, but i wont get into that here. don't buy this unless you are a insane fan and must buy all three dvd sets just for the boxes.

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