I could see this movie being a real hit nowadays. Change the script a bit to have it be a mutated rat, that escaped and started to change in appearance, later to take over a large nest of rats. The humans of the story are mostly told that everything is fine, or are concerned that not killing the rat could expose some operation, or something of the like. A few days later and the nest of rats, has accidentally been boxed up, and shipped out too Japan. A week goes by and the ship finally, after having no communication to the mainland or other scours, does arrive and is anchored into the harbor. It is left until the proper authorities can be called out to look it over, and the rats, which are now about the size of dogs, escape the ship and go into the mountains and forests, hiding out. A couple of weird stuff happening, people saying that there are monsters in the mountains. And finally a team is put together to investigate/deal with the problem. The team does find the nest of the large rat, now to the size that is on par with Food of the Gods, and it is shown that the new generation is always bigger then the last, with many killing and eating the previous generation. The team decides to blow up the nest and the rats, and use TNT, or what have you, to end the problems. Sadly, this wakes up Nezura and the now Kaiju sized mutated rat, marches the rats towards the towns and villages near the the base of the mountain, with a city being the next thing in its way. The military can't get involved right away, and the villages and towns are abandoned as people flee. The city is then taken over with the rats destroying plenty, and Nezura going on a full rampage. Finally a plan of attack is decided upon to attack during the night well Nezura is asleep, and once the military lures the rats towards the edge of the city, along with the subway tunnels, they attack the rats on the city limits and gas the subway system, and leave out poison for the ones not daring to leave the edges of the city. Nezura wakes that morning to see that the whole nest has been wiped out, and the military start the assault on the Kaiju, attacking it with everything. Then Nezura, having been blasted and mortally injured dies as it was making it's way back to the harbor. The film ends with a note that "Humans make monster, because sometimes we are ourselves, monsters. The End. I think this could be a great way for everything to go in my opinion.
It's funny that the plot of Nezura actually has a lot of potential. As for Mammoth Nezura, I see her as female as a nod to naked mole rats (which are eusocial mammals who are ruled by a queen).
It's crazy they went to all that trouble to make a giant Nezura and not show it off than the "blink and you miss it" in the movie. It's a really cool design and honestly feels like something that would have been designed by the company back in the day. (Well, maybe not as detailed in the scales and skin of the monster), but the basic jest would probably be there. Anyway, I can't imagine how terrible the production process could have been in the flick. At least they were able to realize their problems and abandoned ship before it sank the company. Sort of like how Sound of Thunder tanked Franchise Pictures when that was made.
The film adaptation of Food of the Gods might have come afterwards, but I'd be surprised if Nezura wasn't inspired by that part of the original novel. A scientific growth-causing superfood, accidentally fed to the local rat population and creating a dangerous swarm of giant rats? Some coincidence. Also, yeah, big shocker that catching a bunch of wild rats and enclosing them in your workplace didn't work out. 🤮
Wow I never realized just how bad the production process was on the film and all the other issues they had. Interesting that Toho almost made a Rat kaiju to appear in Godzilla vs Biollante years later. Keep up the great work
Cool idea, lousy execution, basically? That final beast looks mighty cool and Hotaru-san is a most capable and versatile actor. Inspector Osako is one of the best characters in the 90's Gamera trilogy and undergoes a really good arc throughout all 3 movies.
The "ra" at the end of kaiju names does actually mean something, it roughly translates to "monster" (also the case for Hedorah). Gojira does not get his name from this convention, his name was made by combining the words for gorilla (gorira) and whale (kujira)
"Gamera is perhaps the most well known non-Toho Kaiju." Kong: "I was here first." 😠 In an alternate universe, we would've gotten the Japanese Night of the Lepus instead of a giant flying turtle. Crazy.
Sorry... I LOVE kaiju and tokusatsu films, but I can't help laughing at this major miscalculation... So using tame rats proved to be a disaster, so they go out and capture wild, probably rabid rats infected with dangerous ticks,, hoping that this will turn out better? Makes you wonder why Daiei kept going bankrupt.
Honestly I think it would of been cooler if instead of mutated rats, they were mutated naked mole rats and Mammoth Nezura was actually a mutated naked mole rat queen. But hey it’s just my opinion
Excellent coverage of both the lost original and indie tribute films, Finz. I appreciate your penchant for tackling the more off-the-radar toku entries 🙂👍 Speaking of which, might that _Demon of Mt. Oe_ clip lead to a full video? 😉 Although 2021 short film _Yatsuashi_ may be more appropriate, as it has the same Daiei/Yokokawa connection 🤔 Edit: 0:43 Been hunting for a subbed release of that for years 🫤
I'm using a model of nezura in sfm as a first form of Bagan in a sequel continuity to the heisei Godzilla era. This might be the deepest cut I've ever made
This makes me think of when I was a kid & I allowed my pet Mongolian gerbils run around on my HO scale model railroad layout! Anyone familiar with the Pola " Old Time Factory " building (also sold by Tyco & AHM) - my gerbils like to go inside the big doorway & look out the windows. I started moving my train to see their reaction & they ran away from it as fast as they could!
The runtime for these 3Y films doesn't actually surprise me; look at the OVAs and short films from various anime. Japanese films exist both as western films and as shorts, and people pay tickets for shorts just like they do features.
This is the same premise of another MST3K movie. The Beginning of the End was shown during the Mike Era. Radiation used to enlarge crops inadvertently enlarges hordes of locusts. Hence the title implying Armageddon. Actual locusts trampled obvious models. Superimposed locusts were used for close up shots so they appear giant. For the time it was movie magic, but by the 90s it was pretty lame. They really should have consulted a zoologist before trying. More animals commit cannibalism than is comfortably thought about, as if even one is comfortable. Rodents need a lot of care if you want to avoid problems. Urine in large amounts allowed to fester creates a toxic smell. They also didn't need that many. They only needed enough to move around a portion at a time. Having much less would have kept the place be cleaner. After shooting is done for the day sanitize the set. Which would easily cut down on the health problems. Recycling footage and stock footage would greatly reduce the time needed for animals. Also the wild mice was insanely stupid. There's just too much stupid to unpack with that plan.
I watched a doco on the making of Ben the rat movie with a hit Michael Jackson title song according to the Rat handler on that Peanut butter is the magic ingredient rats love the stuff and will chew through wood to get to it so want a rat to attack a building that the stuff but this production sounds hellish I am amazed they didn't just chuck it in earlier
It’s so sad that Daiei that Gamera was originally going to be mutated rats. Edit: It is even more sad that the only suit was the Mammoth Nezura. Edit again: It even *MORE* sad that the suit wasn’t used. (This probably was the most weakest monster ever)
Hello,i see you made differences from jp and US version of kaiju movies and i want to see you talking about the differences from the Japanese and US version from the first gamera movie
1. They do have filters to make the footage look older than it is. 2. You can't expect every single thing in a movie to be perfect and that's why genres like Tokusatsu so good is that your not to hit the high notes all the time that's just not practical.
My only question is, if they finally made something about the movie Why didn't they just make the actual movie, as opposed to a documentary showing how and why the movie was never made?
My rabbit enjoyed that film. ...but it confused him. (He didn't understand why they didn't get in the cars and go for a ride. --He was a rather spoiled pet rabbit.)
Sheesh. Starting with an idea so derivative and solely for the purpose of riding off the success of your peers will never yield a result noteworthy for any good reasons.
Using live rats to make a kaiju movie?! That was foolish, egregious, and too much of a health risk. Daiei must've had to pay a hefty fine for unsafe and unsanitary working conditions, when Nezura was in production in 1963. Small wonder they went bankrupt in 1971. Nezura would look better with CGI instead. 😱🙀😵
Using live rats to star in the movie is not that bad of an idea, but I agree it was awfully executed, rats are very intelligent creatures and can be trained easily, if they put time and effort into that instead of treating them as props that will do anything they want and can be replaced on a whim it could've been a huge success
I could see this movie being a real hit nowadays. Change the script a bit to have it be a mutated rat, that escaped and started to change in appearance, later to take over a large nest of rats. The humans of the story are mostly told that everything is fine, or are concerned that not killing the rat could expose some operation, or something of the like. A few days later and the nest of rats, has accidentally been boxed up, and shipped out too Japan. A week goes by and the ship finally, after having no communication to the mainland or other scours, does arrive and is anchored into the harbor. It is left until the proper authorities can be called out to look it over, and the rats, which are now about the size of dogs, escape the ship and go into the mountains and forests, hiding out. A couple of weird stuff happening, people saying that there are monsters in the mountains. And finally a team is put together to investigate/deal with the problem. The team does find the nest of the large rat, now to the size that is on par with Food of the Gods, and it is shown that the new generation is always bigger then the last, with many killing and eating the previous generation. The team decides to blow up the nest and the rats, and use TNT, or what have you, to end the problems. Sadly, this wakes up Nezura and the now Kaiju sized mutated rat, marches the rats towards the towns and villages near the the base of the mountain, with a city being the next thing in its way. The military can't get involved right away, and the villages and towns are abandoned as people flee. The city is then taken over with the rats destroying plenty, and Nezura going on a full rampage. Finally a plan of attack is decided upon to attack during the night well Nezura is asleep, and once the military lures the rats towards the edge of the city, along with the subway tunnels, they attack the rats on the city limits and gas the subway system, and leave out poison for the ones not daring to leave the edges of the city. Nezura wakes that morning to see that the whole nest has been wiped out, and the military start the assault on the Kaiju, attacking it with everything. Then Nezura, having been blasted and mortally injured dies as it was making it's way back to the harbor. The film ends with a note that "Humans make monster, because sometimes we are ourselves, monsters. The End. I think this could be a great way for everything to go in my opinion.
@Los Pollos Hermanos Corporation Yeah, but that sells the movie a bit more, and I'm okay with that!
This sounds pretty good actually
@@itszeronizer597 Thank you!
It's funny that the plot of Nezura actually has a lot of potential. As for Mammoth Nezura, I see her as female as a nod to naked mole rats (which are eusocial mammals who are ruled by a queen).
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It's crazy they went to all that trouble to make a giant Nezura and not show it off than the "blink and you miss it" in the movie. It's a really cool design and honestly feels like something that would have been designed by the company back in the day. (Well, maybe not as detailed in the scales and skin of the monster), but the basic jest would probably be there.
Anyway, I can't imagine how terrible the production process could have been in the flick. At least they were able to realize their problems and abandoned ship before it sank the company. Sort of like how Sound of Thunder tanked Franchise Pictures when that was made.
@GodzillaTrademakrIconwhy?
I love learning about obscure kaiju media history like this
The film adaptation of Food of the Gods might have come afterwards, but I'd be surprised if Nezura wasn't inspired by that part of the original novel. A scientific growth-causing superfood, accidentally fed to the local rat population and creating a dangerous swarm of giant rats? Some coincidence.
Also, yeah, big shocker that catching a bunch of wild rats and enclosing them in your workplace didn't work out. 🤮
If anyone ever complains about CGI Animals, just bring up Nezura.
Wow I never realized just how bad the production process was on the film and all the other issues they had. Interesting that Toho almost made a Rat kaiju to appear in Godzilla vs Biollante years later. Keep up the great work
Cool idea, lousy execution, basically? That final beast looks mighty cool and Hotaru-san is a most capable and versatile actor. Inspector Osako is one of the best characters in the 90's Gamera trilogy and undergoes a really good arc throughout all 3 movies.
As curious as I've always been about Nezura, I'm so glad it never came to be and we got Gamera instead.
The "ra" at the end of kaiju names does actually mean something, it roughly translates to "monster" (also the case for Hedorah). Gojira does not get his name from this convention, his name was made by combining the words for gorilla (gorira) and whale (kujira)
ghidoRAh.
"Gamera is perhaps the most well known non-Toho Kaiju."
Kong: "I was here first." 😠
In an alternate universe, we would've gotten the Japanese Night of the Lepus instead of a giant flying turtle. Crazy.
I'd argue OG Kong is more of a proto-kaiju tbh.
Daimajin appeared in a TOHO/KADOKAWA production about Yo-Kai. The star aliens, and Nezura *COULD* come back.
Gamera already made it
So now it's up to Nezura and Starfishes
Sorry... I LOVE kaiju and tokusatsu films, but I can't help laughing at this major miscalculation... So using tame rats proved to be a disaster, so they go out and capture wild, probably rabid rats infected with dangerous ticks,, hoping that this will turn out better? Makes you wonder why Daiei kept going bankrupt.
My dream is to make an original and unique Kaiju film franchise for America!
Well they say imitations is the most serious form of flattery. Sometimes you come out the gate sprinting other times you come out the gate stumbling.
Safe to say I can't get enough of your channel and videos as I have been watching you everyday for the past three weeks.
Honestly I think it would of been cooler if instead of mutated rats, they were mutated naked mole rats and Mammoth Nezura was actually a mutated naked mole rat queen. But hey it’s just my opinion
İ agree
I kinda wish they had used the Nezura suit in a Gamera film.
Excellent coverage of both the lost original and indie tribute films, Finz. I appreciate your penchant for tackling the more off-the-radar toku entries 🙂👍 Speaking of which, might that _Demon of Mt. Oe_ clip lead to a full video? 😉 Although 2021 short film _Yatsuashi_ may be more appropriate, as it has the same Daiei/Yokokawa connection 🤔
Edit: 0:43 Been hunting for a subbed release of that for years 🫤
RUUUN ITS STARRO!!!
@@guest9243 Talking about _Wind Velocity 75 Meters_ actually ☺️
Night of the Lepus is the produced version of this fever dream.
Your videos always make me happier :) thank you!
I'm using a model of nezura in sfm as a first form of Bagan in a sequel continuity to the heisei Godzilla era. This might be the deepest cut I've ever made
I heard about this short explanation during the first part of gamerathon part 1 thank you paper finz for the full story of the lost film by daiei
Wow, this is one of the craziest film production stories I've ever heard! Yuck!
This makes me think of when I was a kid & I allowed my pet Mongolian gerbils run around on my HO scale model railroad layout! Anyone familiar with the Pola " Old Time Factory " building (also sold by Tyco & AHM) - my gerbils like to go inside the big doorway & look out the windows. I started moving my train to see their reaction & they ran away from it as fast as they could!
When you said food of the gods the get out of my room clip immediately played in my head
Great video as always
tbh the idea of a horde of rats with one rat beign a alpha of the pack is really cool
It feels like jiger is inspired from mammoth nezura
Superfood huh? One could almost say a Food of the God then? I was wondering where I heard this concept. The Birds, sure...
They should have used suits instead of normal rats.
Im impressed that the rats on “food of the gods” are way more active than this
Keep up the great work 👍
these videos are so well produced and very well spoken good job
This may be cliche by now but... rats!
I still hope Gamera returns one day
The runtime for these 3Y films doesn't actually surprise me; look at the OVAs and short films from various anime. Japanese films exist both as western films and as shorts, and people pay tickets for shorts just like they do features.
Fun fact, in the movie there was supposed to be flying rats.
This is the same premise of another MST3K movie. The Beginning of the End was shown during the Mike Era. Radiation used to enlarge crops inadvertently enlarges hordes of locusts. Hence the title implying Armageddon. Actual locusts trampled obvious models. Superimposed locusts were used for close up shots so they appear giant. For the time it was movie magic, but by the 90s it was pretty lame.
They really should have consulted a zoologist before trying. More animals commit cannibalism than is comfortably thought about, as if even one is comfortable. Rodents need a lot of care if you want to avoid problems. Urine in large amounts allowed to fester creates a toxic smell. They also didn't need that many. They only needed enough to move around a portion at a time. Having much less would have kept the place be cleaner. After shooting is done for the day sanitize the set. Which would easily cut down on the health problems. Recycling footage and stock footage would greatly reduce the time needed for animals. Also the wild mice was insanely stupid. There's just too much stupid to unpack with that plan.
@3:37 is the perfect spot to perform the facepalm
The production of this lost film is absolutely darker thank god they execute the rats when it failed the production
In retrospect felt they could've went with crabs as they can walk on land and water and aren't layered in ticks that I know of.
Could you do a video on Nezulla: The Monster Rat" next?
wasn't mammoth nezura a nezura 1964 original monster?
i remember that they planned flying nezura for the original movie but never a super gigantic one
Godzilla the series showed giant rats attacking New York. In my opinion they did a lot better in the show than the movies.
that was super interesting
Dude you should do Cozilla the Italian re-edit of 1954 godzilla
Should have used the suit for godzilla vs guiron instead of painting gyaos silver
Guys, The Toho game Godzilla Battle line got a new update!!! It is Gamera vs Godzilla earth!
If they make a new gamera project, I imagine that the unused monsters might be used as villains.
I watched a doco on the making of Ben the rat movie with a hit Michael Jackson title song according to the Rat handler on that Peanut butter is the magic ingredient rats love the stuff and will chew through wood to get to it so want a rat to attack a building that the stuff but this production sounds hellish I am amazed they didn't just chuck it in earlier
It’s so sad that Daiei that Gamera was originally going to be mutated rats.
Edit: It is even more sad that the only suit was the Mammoth Nezura.
Edit again: It even *MORE* sad that the suit wasn’t used. (This probably was the most weakest monster ever)
nezura was NOT a early concept for gamera it was a differant project
Hello,i see you made differences from jp and US version of kaiju movies and i want to see you talking about the differences from the Japanese and US version from the first gamera movie
Nezura walked so Gamera could run
「ネズラ」は動きが速すぎて追いきれなくなったので、「次は動きの遅い亀にしよう」とガメラが決まったとか。
After Shin Kamen Rider, I want Shin Gamera.
Giant rats appears in the Sony Godzilla 98's animated series
Wind velocity..75 meters. Really rolls off the tongue.
THE GOAT
I'm sorry, I could've sworn gamera was a Toho monster
could someone tell me what the movie is called at 0:54?
The Demon of Mount Oe
(1960)
@@PaperFinz thank you!
cover stop motion fan-monster films
while I prefer Toho, this is an interesting idea
Japanese production hell.
What about 'Gappa the Triphibian Monster'?
1. They do have filters to make the footage look older than it is. 2. You can't expect every single thing in a movie to be perfect and that's why genres like Tokusatsu so good is that your not to hit the high notes all the time that's just not practical.
My only question is, if they finally made something about the movie
Why didn't they just make the actual movie, as opposed to a documentary showing how and why the movie was never made?
I enjoyed that.
Food of the Gods.
7:03 THERE WAS A 2002 SCHLOCK KAIJU B-MOVIE CALLED "NEZULLA: THE RAT MONSTER" & IT FAILED MISERABLY, LOL! 🐀☠️🎞️🎬🎥👎🤣
i saw the thing on tubi
Also there is another film that did the same idea of giant animals called “night of the lepus”but instead of rats it’s rabbits.
My rabbit enjoyed that film. ...but it confused him.
(He didn't understand why they didn't get in the cars and go for a ride.
--He was a rather spoiled pet rabbit.)
The night of the lepus is actually based on a thrilling, biting satire book.
Sheesh. Starting with an idea so derivative and solely for the purpose of riding off the success of your peers will never yield a result noteworthy for any good reasons.
Isnt king kong the most famous non toho kaiju.
When will Gamera return?
Someday
My wish has been granted.
He is having a show from Netflix.
What's the source for the giant squirrel clip?
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
@@PaperFinz Thx,!
疲れた一日、ビールでやっぱ肴は怪獣に😂限る気分が和む🎉とちゅで切るけど。
SRS cinema has this on Blu-ray.
I can't recommend the Food of the Gods movie as it also has real animal cruelty, they killed some of the rats on purpose. Read the novel instead.
King Kong will always be the greatest!!!
2:51, what was does that movie with the giant squirrel?
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
@@PaperFinz thanks!
Giant Monster Varan (1958). Varan resembled a squirrel, but was more reptilian in appearance.
They could absolutely attempt this film again, but with the use of CGI instead of live rats.
Using live rats to make a kaiju movie?! That was foolish, egregious, and too much of a health risk. Daiei must've had to pay a hefty fine for unsafe and unsanitary working conditions, when Nezura was in production in 1963. Small wonder they went bankrupt in 1971.
Nezura would look better with CGI instead. 😱🙀😵
Using live rats to star in the movie is not that bad of an idea, but I agree it was awfully executed, rats are very intelligent creatures and can be trained easily, if they put time and effort into that instead of treating them as props that will do anything they want and can be replaced on a whim it could've been a huge success
They used actual sewer rats instead rats that are well-trained
so a take on h g wells the food of gods then
speaking of gammera somepople of gammera vs godzilla but that never happened.
Oh no!!!! U r a rat did kaiju is goji used a magic bass guitar and rat is dancing and goin to the island.
This is not the stupidest movie production I have heard of, BUT IT SURE FEELS LIKE IT!!
Food of the gods vibe
Yes I know this movie proceeds It