According to my father, he remembered buying a movie about serpents, and not understanding a word, he asked my grandpa "what language is this?" in indonesian of course and he said "Bahasa inggris" he asked again "what is this in indonesian" and he got the answer "Perang majik" which means Magical War, so i am not so sure about it, but it could've been the english dub for Magic Serpents? as from the video it says Grand Duel in magic. he says someone stole the VHS during the night, alongside other belongings, which is unfortunate.
oh my god! find wikizillas contact info and send the film to them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such a shame that we still don't have an official modern English release of The Last War (1961). Not as concerned about the missing export dub, but the movie itself deserves a release in the west. Great video, can't wait for the next one ;)
NBC was the only major network that wanted Godzilla for its programming, and John Belushi was a notorious G-fan. After this, other networks bought the film's, but only used them for Saturday/Sunday afternoon "Creature Feature Spookshow" stuff.
I remember watching this on television. I recall one bumper where Belushzilla was sitting on a stool thumping through a Japanese-English dictionary. In another bumper Belushzilla was (In imitation of the movie.) laughing out loud, when a paper machae boulder flies in and hits him, knocking him back. He then rebounds with a prerecorded Godzilla roar. And in the final bumper we see a banner saying “Godzilla Vs Meglleon” and Belushzilla tearing through it towards the camera while roaring. I hope they find these bumpers one day.
Another piece of lost footage is the Godzilla 1954 "cow scene". I understand why they may have decided to remove it, but still, it's a shame it's now lost.
So the reason why Akira Takarada didn't have a scene in the 2014 movie was because the test audiences were so desperately eager to get to the monsters? Talk about impatience.
They better release the novel 'Godzilla and the Lost Continent'. I read all of Mark Ceracini's Godzilla books and thoroughly enjoyed them, so it's frustrating to know that the last novel was completed but never released. (Damn you Zilla '98!)
@@kamalvelmurugan4875 yeah there’s a lot of things I wish that happened outta this video, guess it’ll either eventually or not ever be in our life time.
I had met Mr. Takarara san at a Chiller Theater convention about ten years ago. I recall him being a very nice man. After greeting him and getting his autograph, I had then bowed and said “Domo Aragoto”. This tickled him because he was not expecting an American to do this. He then exchanged his bow to me. According to the video, the scenes of Mister Takarara san are not even really missing. Whoever owns the rights to the movie is just sitting on them. Those scenes should have been already restored.
Maaan such a shame we lost out on getting to see more stuff like godzilla and mechagodzilla fighting in a news room also I’m glad you didn’t talk about lost media in a deep voice trying to but failing to be scary
This was quite a fun script to help write! Lost media is fascinating, and lost media from Kaiju and Tokusatsu franchises is no exception. Here’s hoping at least some of these are found!
Heres the lost kaiju films and lost scense: The 2014 directors cut Godzilla vs ghost godzilla Godzilla vs gamera Ever movie with bagan in it Yeah both of our list seem very familer the only differnets is, i have one more, and i want the ghost godzilla movie
To add upon the lost Ultraman stuff, there's Chaiyo's Project Ultraman TV show, which entered post-production before the courts stated that the 52 episode TV show violated Chaiyo's legal rights for the series at the time. There's also the animated Chaiyo Ultraman show from 2001, which had 26 episodes made, but aside from a few episodes on RU-vid, it's lost to time. Looking at the more legitimate stuff, there's the Chinese co-produced Metal Kaiser that Tsuburaya worked on and got 13 episodes made before numerous problems, including Tsuburaya's own bankruptcy in 2007 killed it. Three episodes were released on Japanese DVD, but the other 10 that were made are MIA
As far as I remember, AIP distributed the Showa movies to theatres in the states until they decided to start marketing the film's to TV. They apparently did this because by 76, the movies weren't bringing in the cash they used to, and cinemas didn't want them anymore - audiences wanted serious, dark and gritty movies then. So the distributors chose to chase that sweet, sweet advertising cash that TV provided.
One of the biggest things to turn me on to Godzilla was when one of my local tv stations played Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1993). I had to go to school before I could finish the movie and was incredibly angry to find out from my cousin (who was home from school with the flu) that Godzilla won.
This is painful. I've been searching online for several of these films for years. Every so often you get lucky. I once found a VHS copy of half human on ebay. I thought it was fake, but to my surprise it wasn't. The VHS and the DVD copy I made are currently sitting on my shelf.
5:23 Must suck to be that guy. Imagine the Big G stopping his path of destruction to look down and say "I dislike you in particular!" Or more accurately, since it's Shin, the sight of your face caused him sufficient physical pain to roar out.
Awesome content guys, this kinda stuff absolutely fascinates me, and MIB’s depth of knowledge never ceases to amaze 🤩 Some other notable mentions are Toho’s self-ban on 1955’s “Half-Human” and Tsuburaya’s banning of UltraSeven episode 12 “From Another Planet with Love” from rebroadcast or home release (though some dubbed versions are floating around). Two films featuring one of Japan’s oldest costumed heroes, The Golden Bat, are missing, 1950’s “Golden Bat: Phantom of the Skyscrapers” by Shin Eiga-sha and Toho’s own “The Golden Bat Appears” from 1972. And aside from those mentioned at 13:17 other notable showa-era Toho tokusatsu films without official western releases (though not necessarily having a commissioned dub) include The Invisible Avenger, The Secret of the Telegian, Daigiro vs Goliath, Gorath, ESPY, Horror of the Wolf, Blue Christmas, Sinking of Japan, and Prophesies of Nostradamus, not to mention a subtitled version of King Kong Escapes ☹️ And Daiei’s four invisible man-type films also remain unseen on western shores 😅 Also, does anyone know if parts of 1960’s TV toku “Marine Kong” are still missing, or is it just unreleased? 🤔
Great video too but I was surprised at no mention of the canceled NES Rodan game. Also, there’s a full Danish version of Reptilicus out there somewhere that I don’t think anyone has seen.
@@Chris-ww5sh I like to think that the Rodan game devolved into his cameo appearance in “Circus Caper”. Check out MIB’s video review of that bizarro gaming experience 😆 And the uncut Danish version of Reptilicus is actually available, if you’re looking for a copy, Creature Feature Videos is the place to go 😉
It's really cool rewatching this in 2023 and seeing what has been found or what new information has come up since this video came out, like wangmagwi is being released soon and various dubs might be found, or how the king kong footage has been confirmed to have never existed. Idk its just really cool its like watching blameitonjorges old lost media videos :3
The “King Kong footage never existed” is complete and utter bollocks. There’s mountains of substantive evidence for it being filmed and cut that people have to selective ignore to come to that conclusion. The scene was filmed.
I'm not sure if I can remember this but, I did used to watch a video of Godzilla: The Real 4D by one a person with a japanese name, so here's how the story goes from what I remembered, you were in a Jet that was tasked to attack Shin Godzilla, and most of the stuff are just Jets getting killed by Godzilla, but the ending where the Jet protagonist flew up to the sky and dived down as Godzilla fired his Atomic Breath at them, and the logo of the Universel Studio was shown as he fired his beam, the protagonist fired missles inside Shin's mouth and he just dissapears after the missles entered his mouth , this is all I remembered from that one video, I tried finding it but it was gone. (Note: The video also showed real footage of the ride, unfortunately the video is gone for an unknown reason.)
surprised the extended cut of Kong 76 went unmentioned. It aired on TV in 1978 on NBC and was split into two parts because of the 3-hour runtime. I know there's recordings and some of the scenes have made it on youtube, but there has yet to be an official release of this version.
This is fascinating. There were some Godzilla fan films on youtube I saw when I was younger but now they're not available anymore. Should have downloaded them when I had the chance.
Dubbing houses, especially in HK, would also dub trailers, regardless if they were released bin English speaking countries or not. This would often confuse people in to thinking there might be alternate dubs of some films. There may in fact have been alternate dubs, but many dubbing houses did so much work that it was hard to keep track back in the day to cay for certain
Thank you very much for doing this video. 😊 As someone from Honolulu, I found the note about the University of Hawai'i at Manoa quite interesting. We don't pronounce "KHON" as "Kay-HON": we say each letter in K.H.O.N. individually. Again, great video. 😀
When I was younger I had a vhs that had 2 heavily edited and poorly dubbed monster movies. The Magic Serpent and another wu-tang like movie with a giant eagle. Both were edited to a little over 30min and the dubs sounded like they were done in a garage... the tape is long gone at this point. Still a fun memory though!
You forgot to mentioned a deleted scene in the 1954 Godzilla, that being Godzilla eating a cow, it did infact exist but what I heard in the lost media wiki toho destroyed the Godzilla eating a cow scene, only 2 copy's of this scene remain's left in the world
I would love to see the American International version of "Atragon". That version was dubbed by Titra. Unfortunately, when Media Blasters planned on using that version when it released the film on DVD, but Toho put the kibosh on it.
In a user talk page on the wikizilla website Austounding Beyong Beleif said that they were going to include marine kong in this video but they decided not to.
You guys need to get John LeMay and Kevin Dorendorf to contribute to these types of oscure lost media videos regardless is some extreme G-fans may argue about their lack of online presence.
I kinda wish you guys put the "illegal" Chaiyo Ultraman Movie made by Thailand in 2004-06, it's a very interesting story behind the monstrosity of Ultraman rights
Funny that you guys mention that Ultra7 Hawaii dub. I live in Hawaii and work at the university library, so I might be able to see if there is more relating to Ultraman stuff archived somewhere.
RIP Kaiju Gaiden. Dont think that will ever see the light of day with the scummy acts of one of its creators stealing money and not keeping up with promises.
I believe that, just like the synopsis says, the monster in King Kong Appears in Edo wasn't giant (the studio was poverty raw anyway) and the photo with the geisha is a gimmick that recreated the same scene in Great Buddha Arrival (actual first kaiju film?).
2:24 I actually got some cool information from a Japanese amino user who’s dad went to the event including plots, a new Godzilla attack and Kaiju on stage.
@@michaelcallari Hammer hook was Godzilla’s new attack, there were aliens who were putting all monsters under mind control and using them to take over the earth. And with the two most powerful Kaiju in their control they would take over earth. That’s all the information I got but still really cool stuff.
I'm surprised you guys didn't mention The Legend of King Kong which was a 1976 remake which was unreleased due to the legal battle between R.K.O., Paramount, and Universal.
As someone who just recently discovered Marc Cerasinis Godzilla novels and started reading them....super upset that The Lost Continent never got published...stupid 1998 film...
Y’know ... there was more Indian kaiju... a Kong- like one one that was “creatively” called “godmonster” & 2 others. Edit: at least I think there was 2 more so 5 Indian kaiju including Gogola.
About five years ago Time/Life came out with a History of Godzilla book. It described making the 1954 movie, and mentions a filmed outtake that no one talks about. On the first day of filming they were going to film the scene where Godzilla crashes through the Diet Building, their version of the Capital building. The suited actor walked down the miniature street, and promptly tripped on his big monster feet and fell over flat on his big monster face! (And injuring himself.) And in doing so he destroyed the Diet building, but not in the way the studio intended. The special effects people were up all night repairing the miniature sets to redo the scene. And the next morning they had a new suit actor; and so Haruo Nakijima would show us all how it’s done. They were most certainly filming when this accident occurred. So I wonder if the film of “The Fall of Godzilla" still exists somewhere. Of if not, maybe a still photo exists of Godzilla lying face down on the smashed set.
You made 2 videos in a row! Good work G team. You are making us happy viewers of your work. However, do you have a discord? I would like to join one since this is a fun and fascinating subject to talk about and relate to other fans. Also I know since Im one of your viewers. Others fans of Kaiju want a Battra. Where do I become a patron? Lastly. Where is the episode on Unmade kaiju & Godzilla movies? Godzilla vs Gigamoth, Ghost Godzilla, vs Varan! Such a good subject!
No - Daiei was prepared to make another Gamera movie for 1972, with his opponent a two-headed serpent called Wyvern, but it went bankrupt before filming started. You're thinking of Gamera vs. Garasharp, which was made for a 1991 LaserDisc set. Wyvern probably inspired Garasharp, but all of the concept art and footage in that short was newly-created.
Omni Productions dub. Omni Productions dub. Why does that sound so familiar? Dear Lord. Transformers Headmasters dub. "Fortress Maximus has COME himself!"
Speaking of ultraman why can’t u do the ultra hero profiles and the ultra kaiju profiles because I would love to see ultra hero and ultra Kaiju profiles
