Today let's look into the differences of Godzilla's 10th film entry, Godzilla, Minilla, Gabara: All Monsters Attack, or as it was known in America, Godzilla's Revenge.
A few misc things: - When Ichiro's neighbor calls the police, his dialogue is very clear, but in the dub, it was masked with car noises - One of the thieves is given the name "Roy" in the english dub, but there's no mention of their named in the original japanese dub - Hilariously, Ichiro's neighbor refers to Minya as a god in the original japanese dub - Was it confirmed that Ichiro says "Esbrasaurus"? I thought he was saying "There's Gorosaurus/Brosaurus" but the audio was just recorded weirdly
Thanks for those bits of information. As for the Esbrasaurus name, I saw it in the "The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Cuts: Editing Japanese Monsters," where it mentions Gorosaurus name as Esbrasaurus.
@@PaperFinz You should've actually watched the movie instead of relying on that book. Ichiro sounds like he says, "There's Brasaurus," followed by, "There's Manda." It's possible that whoever wrote that book misheard "There's Brasaurus" as "Esbrasaurus."
Despite this film’s many shortcomings, I still really enjoy it for its social commentary on what life was like in that time period for a child. It took me a few rewatches to realize how depressing the film’s undertone is.
Director Inoshiro Honda was a loner and was bullied when he was a kid. He got into Filmmaking as an Outlet for his Creativity. I think Godzilla's Revenge was actually a Movie about his Own Childhood. The Character in the Movie was even called Shiro.
It gets deeper: Notice how Ichiro and some of the kids wore a yellow cap? That was a high-visibility cap many kids wore at that time in Japan, so that motorists would spot kids walking across busy streets. Like Ichiro and the other kids, in 1960s Japan, it became fairly common for kids to accompany themselves home from school, since many working-class families required both the father and mother working to earn a decent income. The yellow cap was implemented after there had been THOUSANDS of reported accidents of kids getting struck by motorists; the bright color of the cap was meant to draw greater attention to the kids. Now you know why Akio (Gamera vs. Guiron) was constantly mentioning his desire to see a world that was absent of “war and traffic accidents”.
5:10 Also, the last line of the film in the Japanese version is Ichiro appologizing to the painter saying “Sorry Mr. Painter” whereas in the English dub the last line of the film is the bullies telling Ichiro “Hey Ichiro you were great.”
Always loved this series, I’m thankful you are keeping it alive. I’m sure there’s plenty of other Tokusatsu movies you could be covering in this series, ergo Gamera and Gammera.
Great video. Despite Godzilla's Revenge arguably being the worst in the series it's actually one that I watched a lot as a child. This was due to it's really short runtime and kaiju action that I wasn't familiar with at the time. Kumonga's mispronounced name in the English dub still stuck with me to this day as well haha
One thing about the intro that I find weird is that there's a clip of Godzilla repeatedly punching an off-screen enemy that is below him. From the tropical trees in the background, it looks like a clip from this movie or Son of Godzilla, but the shot cannot be found in either movie. I thought maybe it was in the Japanese version of Godzilla's Revenge, but that wasn't the case either. It looks like it's just a deleted clip from the fight against Gabara. Maybe they cut it because they felt the fight was becoming too one-sided.
That trailer at the end is so nostalgic. I remember seeing that trailer along with other trailers for the showa era Godzilla movies at the end of Godzilla King of the Monsters.
Thanks for the video! According to the Japanese credits, and other Japanese published sources, the voice of Minilla (pronounced "Mee-nee-lah"; a portmanteau of "Miniature" & "Gojira" - a "Mini-Godzilla") was dubbed by 内山みどり (Midori Uchiyama). Being a soft tongue twister, Minilla was rechristened "Minya" to give the voice dubbers an easier go. BTW, Toho's original English rendering for アンギラス (Angirasu) was indeed "Angilas," which appears on Toho's English publicity materials for GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN. Toho has fluctuated on their English naming conventions over the decades.
I loved this movie when i was a little kid! But the more i started watching the film as i was getting older it became silly but gabra is a unique kaiju. Hope he comes back in a better story/ better film for him.
Never cared for this film as a kid but it grew on me. Gabara was a great foe and only used in this picture, which I thought sad. Thanks for the great content!!
Despite it being not that good, it’s honestly relatable to me. I was alone at home a lot when I was younger. I would play with my dinosaur toys and Godzilla toys by my self and form a sort of narrative in my head. I didn’t have many friends, probably because I had a difficult time starting and having conversations with people. I would also go around looking for cool looking sticks that I could use to imagine them as something, like part of a giant monsters arm. I can relate tho the character.
I know this movie gets shit on a lot but Im particularly nostalgic for it. I watched it a lot as a kid and really liked it. I probably just liked how many different monsters were featured and being a child, neither knew or cared about the frankenstein's monster made of godzilla stock footage. The movie is dumb and basically just a weird fan-fiction, but it's way too amusing for me to hate
One of the rare occasions where I prefer the American dub (slightly) over the subbed version, warts and all. Either way, I unironically adore this film as its the main Godzilla film I remember as a child.
Fun Fact: “All Monsters Attack” Had a Much Larger Yen Budget Compared to “Destroy All Monsters”, “All Monsters Attack” Had a Budget Total of ¥260 Million.
I'd love to know who did the voice for Minya in the American version. To me it sounds like Don Knotts, I wonder if it was a non credited voice over. So Minya actually sounds more like Barney Fife than Barney the Dinosaur.
I loved Godzilla's Revenge. Saw It as part of a Double Feature(Along With War of the Gargantuas) when I was a Kid. Loved how Little Shiro became friends with Minya, and got to see Godzilla Fight Other Monsters(Even if It was Stock Footage), And he Overcame Bank Robbers and School Bullies. What's Not To Love About This Movie?
The US version is so painfully dopey, even as a kid I couldn't endure it. The Japanese version gives Manila a child-like voice, making the experience on Monster Island seem more like a legitimate dream instead of an idiot's idea of what little children's fantasies are like. This poor kid lives in an urban nightmare world. I can't imagine walking home from school at that age, with factories belching poison into the sky everywhere, and entertaining myself most of the time because I have two working parents. No wonder this kid dreams about beautiful faraway islands populated by the only friend he has...an imaginary child monster. Even the bank robbers might be a figment of this kid's imagination. Remember, the legendary Ishiro Honda directed this movie. If all of us hadn't been tortured by the horrible American dub first, together with our Godzilla hating friends "You actually watch this stupid **racial slur** s-t?!?!" we might have grown up with a different opinion.
Shiro's Neighbor, The Kindly Toymaker, was played by Hideyo Amamoto. He'd previously worked with Inoshiro Honda on many of his Movies. You might remember him as the Evil Doctor Huu in King Kong Escapes.
This film is obviously the black sheep in the Showa era of godzilla and the only positive thing I have to say about this piece of sh!t is the opening song(crime fiction) in the American version
A few misc things:
- When Ichiro's neighbor calls the police, his dialogue is very clear, but in the dub, it was masked with car noises
- One of the thieves is given the name "Roy" in the english dub, but there's no mention of their named in the original japanese dub
- Hilariously, Ichiro's neighbor refers to Minya as a god in the original japanese dub
- Was it confirmed that Ichiro says "Esbrasaurus"? I thought he was saying "There's Gorosaurus/Brosaurus" but the audio was just recorded weirdly
Thanks for those bits of information. As for the Esbrasaurus name, I saw it in the "The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Cuts: Editing Japanese Monsters," where it mentions Gorosaurus name as Esbrasaurus.
@@PaperFinz You should've actually watched the movie instead of relying on that book. Ichiro sounds like he says, "There's Brasaurus," followed by, "There's Manda." It's possible that whoever wrote that book misheard "There's Brasaurus" as "Esbrasaurus."
There really are no important differences that make them have different quality levels. They are at the same level of crappiness.
@@chadgorosaurus4898 Ha ha ha
Despite this film’s many shortcomings, I still really enjoy it for its social commentary on what life was like in that time period for a child. It took me a few rewatches to realize how depressing the film’s undertone is.
Director Inoshiro Honda was a loner and was bullied when he was a kid. He got into Filmmaking as an Outlet for his Creativity. I think Godzilla's Revenge was actually a Movie about his Own Childhood.
The Character in the Movie was even called Shiro.
It really is
It gets deeper: Notice how Ichiro and some of the kids wore a yellow cap? That was a high-visibility cap many kids wore at that time in Japan, so that motorists would spot kids walking across busy streets. Like Ichiro and the other kids, in 1960s Japan, it became fairly common for kids to accompany themselves home from school, since many working-class families required both the father and mother working to earn a decent income. The yellow cap was implemented after there had been THOUSANDS of reported accidents of kids getting struck by motorists; the bright color of the cap was meant to draw greater attention to the kids.
Now you know why Akio (Gamera vs. Guiron) was constantly mentioning his desire to see a world that was absent of “war and traffic accidents”.
@@tyrantgregcagkaiju71 that’s kinda dark
@@mrgodzillaraptors8632 With one or two exceptions to his résumé, Ishiro Honda wasn’t exactly known for stuff that was TOO kid-friendly, after all 😱.
"'Godzilla's Revenge.' Yeah, against who?"-AVGN.
Against _all of us_ who watched this.
@@vermis8344 I like it. I'd watch it any day over a dumb Hollywood CGI nightmare like King of the Monsters.
@@matthewgramz3648are you joking sir
@@IMosuGoji nope. Revenge isn't a bad movie. I appreciate how different it is. It would be great if all the monster stuff wasn't stock footage.
@@matthewgramz3648 yeah I enjoy it too
but kotm isn’t worse than it
“Godzilla says I have to learn to fight my own battles now.” Such an underrated line.😂😂😂
"Hubert, don't leave me!"
"Geraldine, I have to leave you."
"But Hubert, I LOVE YOU!"
(Couple on television in the American dub)
Peak drama
5:10 Also, the last line of the film in the Japanese version is Ichiro appologizing to the painter saying “Sorry Mr. Painter” whereas in the English dub the last line of the film is the bullies telling Ichiro “Hey Ichiro you were great.”
Always loved this series, I’m thankful you are keeping it alive. I’m sure there’s plenty of other Tokusatsu movies you could be covering in this series, ergo Gamera and Gammera.
Great video. Despite Godzilla's Revenge arguably being the worst in the series it's actually one that I watched a lot as a child. This was due to it's really short runtime and kaiju action that I wasn't familiar with at the time. Kumonga's mispronounced name in the English dub still stuck with me to this day as well haha
One thing about the intro that I find weird is that there's a clip of Godzilla repeatedly punching an off-screen enemy that is below him. From the tropical trees in the background, it looks like a clip from this movie or Son of Godzilla, but the shot cannot be found in either movie. I thought maybe it was in the Japanese version of Godzilla's Revenge, but that wasn't the case either. It looks like it's just a deleted clip from the fight against Gabara. Maybe they cut it because they felt the fight was becoming too one-sided.
I think you can spot Gabara's foot on the left side for a second or two during the clip so yeah, I'm going with your theory that it's a deleted scene.
Is that In this video? Time stamp?
That trailer at the end is so nostalgic. I remember seeing that trailer along with other trailers for the showa era Godzilla movies at the end of Godzilla King of the Monsters.
We can all agree that "Godzilla says that I should learn to fight my own battles, you know" is an important life lesson we can all take to heart.
Thanks for the video! According to the Japanese credits, and other Japanese published sources, the voice of Minilla (pronounced "Mee-nee-lah"; a portmanteau of "Miniature" & "Gojira" - a "Mini-Godzilla") was dubbed by 内山みどり (Midori Uchiyama). Being a soft tongue twister, Minilla was rechristened "Minya" to give the voice dubbers an easier go. BTW, Toho's original English rendering for アンギラス (Angirasu) was indeed "Angilas," which appears on Toho's English publicity materials for GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN. Toho has fluctuated on their English naming conventions over the decades.
I loved this movie when i was a little kid! But the more i started watching the film as i was getting older it became silly but gabra is a unique kaiju. Hope he comes back in a better story/ better film for him.
Never cared for this film as a kid but it grew on me. Gabara was a great foe and only used in this picture, which I thought sad. Thanks for the great content!!
His extremely deteoriated suit is also used in an episode of Godman. Sad but also hilarious.
in the english dub, I'm pretty sure you can hear faint traces of the original japanese song right at the beginning
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS ALWAYS GREAT INFO STUFF I WATCHED GROWING UP BUT NEVER KNOW KEEP-EM COMING
Despite it being not that good, it’s honestly relatable to me. I was alone at home a lot when I was younger. I would play with my dinosaur toys and Godzilla toys by my self and form a sort of narrative in my head. I didn’t have many friends, probably because I had a difficult time starting and having conversations with people. I would also go around looking for cool looking sticks that I could use to imagine them as something, like part of a giant monsters arm. I can relate tho the character.
I know this movie gets shit on a lot but Im particularly nostalgic for it. I watched it a lot as a kid and really liked it. I probably just liked how many different monsters were featured and being a child, neither knew or cared about the frankenstein's monster made of godzilla stock footage. The movie is dumb and basically just a weird fan-fiction, but it's way too amusing for me to hate
One of the rare occasions where I prefer the American dub (slightly) over the subbed version, warts and all. Either way, I unironically adore this film as its the main Godzilla film I remember as a child.
Fun Fact: “All Monsters Attack” Had a Much Larger Yen Budget Compared to “Destroy All Monsters”, “All Monsters Attack” Had a Budget Total of ¥260 Million.
Brandon Tenold is squirming in pain.
Are going to to do differences for the rest of the Showa series?
Minilla is extra terrifying in this movie bro. Its worse than the Son of Godzilla Minilla.
I have a theory that Ichiro's father in the English dub being renamed to Tak as a subtle to the production designer Takeo Kita
Really cool vid!
When is your next video coming out?
Soon, I just took a break to catch up on life. There will be plenty of videos to come! :)
@@PaperFinz alright!
"Hey, you! Don't honk that horn!"
I'd love to know who did the voice for Minya in the American version. To me it sounds like Don Knotts, I wonder if it was a non credited voice over. So Minya actually sounds more like Barney Fife than Barney the Dinosaur.
I loved Godzilla's Revenge.
Saw It as part of a Double Feature(Along With War of the Gargantuas) when I was a Kid.
Loved how Little Shiro became friends with Minya, and got to see Godzilla Fight Other Monsters(Even if It was Stock Footage), And he Overcame Bank Robbers and School Bullies.
What's Not To Love About This Movie?
I honestly had no idea this movie was so hated until about 2 years ago. I watched it like 30 times as a kid
You forgot to mention that Ochiro calls Kumonga (the giant spider) *"Kumogula",* for some weird reason in the english dub.
5:30 stock footage and all
Underrated!!!
I always wanted to know what the hell Ichiro screams when the phone rings as he’s sleeping lol
In the Japanese version, "Oka-chan!" (Mommy). In the US version, "Oh, Mommy!"
The Giant Condor became the Giant Eagle, too.
Do you have a Godzilla vs Gigan differences.
Godzilla’s revenge title in brazil is “O calango do cão”
Not exactly the best Godzilla movie I've but I guess it's somewhat ok
The US version is so painfully dopey, even as a kid I couldn't endure it. The Japanese version gives Manila a child-like voice, making the experience on Monster Island seem more like a legitimate dream instead of an idiot's idea of what little children's fantasies are like.
This poor kid lives in an urban nightmare world. I can't imagine walking home from school at that age, with factories belching poison into the sky everywhere, and entertaining myself most of the time because I have two working parents. No wonder this kid dreams about beautiful faraway islands populated by the only friend he has...an imaginary child monster.
Even the bank robbers might be a figment of this kid's imagination.
Remember, the legendary Ishiro Honda directed this movie. If all of us hadn't been tortured by the horrible American dub first, together with our Godzilla hating friends "You actually watch this stupid **racial slur** s-t?!?!" we might have grown up with a different opinion.
Nice 👍
Minimal changes. Looks like the American distributors didn’t want to waste too much time and energy on this one.
I like this movie
Japanese one nice 😊😊
Yeah Yeah yeah!
Does anyone think that GMK's title is a subtle reference to Godzilla's Revenge's original Japanese title?
Dear Lord ,The Original Titles Of The Film Are So Questionable
as bad as this movie is i absolutely love it lmao
Yeah, but I couldv'e done without the *zoom-in closeup* of Ochiro's crotch, the *kiddie-bondage scene* and the weird pedoesque neighbor guy. 😕😕😕
Shiro's Neighbor, The Kindly Toymaker, was played by Hideyo Amamoto. He'd previously worked with Inoshiro Honda on many of his Movies. You might remember him as the Evil Doctor Huu in King Kong Escapes.
@@queenglamazona8789 -- Yup, I remember.
Dat's Boss!
I never liked the "Crying Fiction" opening music in the English Version.
10/10 video. 2/10 movie
👍👍👍👍👍！！！
Who hates Godzillas revenge
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Me 🖐🏿
@@Godzilla-tu2cdyeah it’s horrific
Guilty pleasure for me.
Eh, it’s not great, but it has some very interesting social commentary about growing up in this time period of Japan.
Me
This film is obviously the black sheep in the Showa era of godzilla and the only positive thing I have to say about this piece of sh!t is the opening song(crime fiction) in the American version
Opinion Handled on All Monsters Attack (Neutral)
I'm not going to lie to you this has to be if not one of one of the worst ,thee worst Godzilla movie ever made.
Yeah lol
true
@@Emmanuel-ms8prFor Me, it’s Not True! There is No Bad Showa Godzilla Movie.
First
Your first congratulations 🍾🎉🎈🎊
Thx
@@HEISEI_FAN_MJRyour welcome
*Last!*
Still the worst godzilla movie in my opinion
Same for me and probably the black sheep in the Showa era
Worst Kaiju character ever manila 🤣🤣🤣
At least he made you Laugh.
@@queenglamazona8789in deed
The worst Godzilla movie ever made!👎👎
True
No, that’s the anime trilogy
I certainly don't love GR, but I will sit through it, whereas I won't even put Gigan, Megalon, or Space Godzilla in the dvd player 😖