Deep Sea Monster Reigo

Reigo The DeepSea Monster vs. the Battleship Yamato , Shinkaij Reig? is a 2005 independent tokusatsu film by Shinpei Hayashiya. Veteran artist Keita Amemiya designed the titular monster. The films original working title was Reigo vs. Yamato Reig tai Yamat.

In September 1942, Captain Yamagami Susumu Kurobe is ordered to rendezvous the Yamato with the Combined Fleet that is gathering at the Truk Islands aka Chuuk Islands in Micronesia, a key strategic point in the South Pacific. With beautiful clear blue skies above and surrounded by coral reefs below, this South Seas paradise became a strong base for the Combined Fleet and the front lines of the naval war a place where many fierce battles were fought. Decades later, the sea bed surrounding the Truk Islands is still littered with the remains of more than 60 warships and airplanes.Among Yamagamis crew are the cantankerous Divisional Officer Noboru Osako Yukijiro Hotaru and the young Ensign Takeshi Kaido Taiyo Sugiura. Unsure of what the future may bring, Kaido went off to war without declaring his intentions for his childhood sweetheart, Chie Kojima Mai Nanami. He always carries her photo in his coat pocket, while Chie longs for his return to their seaside hometown. ........

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