Gamera vs. Zigra


Gamera vs. Zigra , Gamera tai Shinkai Kaij Jigura? , Gamera versus Deep Sea Monster Zigra is a 1971 kaiju monster genre film starring Gamera created by Daiei Film. Unlike previous Gamera sequels, Gamera vs. Zigra was not released by AIPTV. Sandy Frank released the film to television and home video in the 1980s. It is one of five Gamera films featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Gamera begins an underwater assault on the Zigran spaceshipwhich, when hit with Gameras flamethrower, transforms into the giant sharklike monster. Zigra grows larger and larger, and finally halts the heroic turtle with a ray that suspends its cell activity. Enervated, Gamera sinks into the sea. Zigra then makes contact with the people of earth, saying that they should give up and surrender all the seas to him. Back at Sea World, the dolphin trainer and the facilitys scientists discover a way to break the aliens hypnotic control with sonic waves. Thus, they manage to disable the Zigra woman, only to learn that she is actually a woman named Lora LeeChikako Sugawara in the Japanese version, who had been in a moon rover during the initial lunar attack and was captured and used by Zigra. Drs. Wallace and Ishikawa employ a bathyscaph in an attempt to wake Gamera, only to find that Kenichi and Helen have stowed away on board. Zigra suddenly attacks them and again demands the immediate surrender of the earth or he will destroy the bathyscaph. The UN commander reluctantly agrees to the aliens terms.An electrical storm approaches the bay, and a bolt of lightning revives Gamera, who snatches the bathyscaph from Zigra and returns it to the surface. Gamera and Zigra face off a final time, and Zigra, using its superior versatility underwater, slices Gameras chest with its bladelike dorsal fin. Gamera takes hold of Zigra, flies into the air, and then drops at high speed, slamming the alien monster against the earth. Gamera further incapacitates Zigra by jamming a boulder over its nose, pinning it to the ground. Gamera grabs another boulder and uses it, like a hammer on a xylophone, to play the Gamera theme on Zigras dorsal fins. Finally, Gamera ends Zigras existence by setting its body on fire, reducing it to ash in a massive conflagration. ........

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