Cast: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa
This film features a creature that flies AND destroys things! AND it's in color!
PLOT: An engineer at a mine gets a call that a pump is flooded, but the pump is not a source of water. One man is wounded and another is missing. When three miners go looking for him, they happen across a disturbance in the mine. All three are murdered.
Shigeru (Kenji Sahara) comforts Goro's sister Kiyo (Yumi Shirakawa) when a giant bug, of all things, invades the home. Shigeru realizes that this is the thing that killed the three miners. The police go after it, shooting it. It drags a man down a mountain to his death and escapes. Going to investigate again, the miners find the bug waiting for them, and fire. The miners decide to release the mine cart, but, while it kills the poppa bug, there's still more. Shigeru falls unconscious, and when he comes to, finds himself in a lair with a giant egg, which hatches and gives birth to a flying creature, known in Japanese lore as a rodan..
Japan and the Philippines are in awe of a strange flying object that travels at supersonic speeds. A photo obtained from a happy, dead couple reveal the object to be a pteranodon. Meanwhile, Shigeru gets his memory back and takes the professors to where he saw the creature. They find a piece of the egg and the professor announces his findings. Going out to look for the beast, they finally spot it at a distance. It destroys their Jeep. The Japanese by this point apparently still have not learned that firepower cannot hurt supernatural beings, and so they send in the air force. The rodan flies over the city and creates a hurricane-like wind that destroys everything.
The new plan is to fire rockets and missiles into Mt. Aso. This, unwisely, erupts the volcano and two rodans appear. They fly around for a bit and then perish in the flames.
REVIEW: To be honest, I think this film should have been shot in black and white. It would have had a much more profound effect on audiences and it would have been a lot scarier. And I'm not seeing how the giant bugs relate to the rodan, unless all there was is how Shigeru got to land next to the giant egg. I don't know, the beginning didn't make sense to me, but I liked the ending. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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