#unlicensed godzilla

[jimpluff]

So big it’s terrifying!

[arconinternet]

Beast Fighter (Mega Duck, Sachen, 1993)

Giant monster warriors (aka Monica worriers) stomp their way through five major cities, stopping only to engage in straight-up beat-em-ups.

Released for the Mega Duck (a Game Boy-esque handheld by Hong Kong company Welback Holdings) by Sachen, aka Thin Chen, Tainwese legend of unlicensed games. Indeed, most if not all of their Mega Duck games would also receive unlicensed Game Boy releases.

You can play it in your browser here. Controls: 1 (start button), arrows, Ctrl, Alt.

[vermilllionsands]

Advertisement for the unmade and unlicensed Star Godzilla, from Variety magazine, May 7, 1980

[ghidzilla]

Do you have me? Do you have a lead on me? 

Have you seen me? Do you want to trade or sell me? 

Drop a line if so!

Thank you

[kyodaikino]

There’s “No seriously I heard this cut of Godzilla vs. Megalon is public domain” unlicensed releases and then there’s “I’ll just use a forced subtitle track to put a black box over the AIP copyright info” unlicensed releases

[quirk-generator]

Quirk idea, Rampage, a relatively simple peer up quirk where the angrier the user is the more powerful they become. I will list my ideas in terms of power levels going from 0 up: level 0 user is calm and relaxed, they are at base strength i.e. normal human levels, only able to perform feats achievable by regular or quirkless people, though that isn't to say they couldn't lift a car at this stage if they wanted, just that they'd have to train to become that strong. Part 1

Also the stronger the user is at base level the more their strength multiplies at higher levels, like if you were a regular normal Joe who didn’t work put at all maybe when you got annoyed you could flip a car with some effort but if the user worked their ass off to become a strongman or something they’d be able to do serious damage to small buildings with bare fists alone. Moving onto level 1: the user is tense and irritated, but not too much for them to deal with, they might unthinkingly-part2             Break a reasonably sturdy table or accidentally rip a door off it’s hinges when they’re too distracted to control their strength, but nothing approaching monster strength yet if they haven’t trained in base form. User will have to watch themself closely if they don’t want to make a scene or cause property damage or get arrested for unlicensed quirk use but at this level it shouldn’t be too hard to work around. Part 3            Level 2 strength is a bit more unwieldy, the quirk user is seriously annoyed with something or worse someone, and they might not be paying enough attention to catch themselves before they hurt anyone. The likelihood of the user causing serious property damage or broken bones is more likely at this stage especially if they’re rather strong in base, they could crush a car or straight up knock a building over. It is heavily advised to either get the user away from what’s bothering them part4            Before they can seriously wound someone or wreck the building they’re in without thinking. Level 3, The user us Good and Angry and should not be approached by anyone who wouldn’t be able to calm them down, as their strength is getting to a dangerously difficult to control level especially if they were particularly athletic in base form. User could cause small scale, localised disaster at this level, especially if they start ripping parts of the environment up to smash stuff with. Part5            Level 4, the user is berserk and can pretty much work as a small humanoid Godzilla, don’t engage at all just get all might or eraserhead to deal with the city destroying monster. At this stage the user may not be able to control themselves at all, the rage blinding them to much to focus on holding back or being careful until they either calm down or wear themself out and at that point any damage they did would have already been done. Part6            Any ways I thought this quirk could be interesting for either a hero or a villain or even a complete civilian. Like a regular dude with anger issues who works out to blow off steam could get a bit out of control, unintentionally causing disaster, or a villain that doesn’t even try to curb their temper working with s fellow villain with the matador quirk you posted a while back as the most dangerous duo if their base. My jury is out on whether anger management class would help with this or no end            Oh shit almost forgot but it’s up to the writer as to whether or not the Rampage user has any “tells” as to whether their quirk is activated or not but if you want ideas you could go subtle with the user steadily becoming slightly more muscular the angrier they become or flashy with full glowing red eyes and red lightning emanating from them more prominently as they get progressively angrier. Or just go the quietly scary way where there’s no tell at all and you’d only know it’s on when they snap            

this is a lot of information for a quirk im sure it would be useful if someone wanted to use it for their oc! also i dont exactly thing anger management could help them a lot? i mean it could help not make them just snap at everything but this user would probably just be taking care of controlling themselves at the lowest levels of how it works, also making this user a partner of the matador quirk user sounds interesting?? like theyd be a hell of a duo?? and i think that, while you left it for the oc creator, it could both be a gradual thing or just let the user snap, you know sometimes you just go to angry to angrier and sometimes you just explode bc of one single thing

[monarchofficial]

An unlicensed Godzilla bar across from a Mandarake in Japan...

[himitsusentaiblog]

where would you recommend starting with tokusatsu for a newbie?

The good news is you can pick just about any series to start with as they are all almost entirely separate stories from each other (with a few exceptions).  There are a couple of logical places to begin though.

If you are looking to start at the beginning, watch a few of the older Godzilla films.  These are the foundational works the modern concept of tokusatsu are based on.  The camera work, models and suits we have come to know and love all got their start with the groundbreaking effects work of Eiji Tsuburaya and his team at Toho,

From there, move on to the Ultraman series, also from Tsuburaya.  This is where he made the leap from large screen to small and kicked off a boom in TV tokusatsu that’s never ended.

If your tastes are a bit more modern, skip to the 1990s and try the Super Sentai box sets coming out from Shout! Factory.  Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger has a kind of instant familiarity thanks to its footage being used in Power Rangers and that gives a good place to start.

There is a lot more tokusatsu commercially available today than there used to be, including some of the more modern (and a few of the older) Ultraman series being streamed on Crunchyroll. I can’t stress enough how good the most recent show, Ultraman Orb was.

These are all commercially available series in the United States, if you live in Europe it might be a bit harder to get your hands on them.  However, for shows not licensed in the US there are always fansubs!  I don’t endorse the unlicensed streaming services as most of the fansubbers don’t like their work being used on them but a bit torrent client and a bit of searching online can yield a treasure trove of older and current series.

The best part is that there are so many resources online today to find out these shows that my best advice is to find one that appeals to you and watch it.  You can literally start almost anywhere with Kamen Rider or Super Sentai and not be lost.  The same can be said about most of the Ultraman series. They are mostly self-contained stories that give you what you need to know up front in the first episode.

I hope you find one you enjoy and have fun exploring the amazing world of Japanese special effects programs!

[arcaneranger]

Final Thoughts - Spring 2018

Oh, I am so very late on this one, but in my defense, I did warn that I had too much to watch during the spring, so much so that I actually have to have MAL open in another tab while I’m writing this just to remember everything.

I’ll start with what I skipped.

* Tokyo Ghoul:re, FLCL Alternative, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness Season 2 and High School DxD Hero because I have neither watched the previous seasons nor read the manga.

* Cutie Honey Universe and Gurazeni because by the time I would have gotten to them, I had only heard bad things.

* Dragon Pilot: Hisone to Masotan because Netflix picked it up and we’ll have to wait until September for it.

* Gegege no Kitaro because I didn’t hear any buzz about it and frequently forget that it even exists, I’ll get around to it if enough people ask me to.

* Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory because Funimation has inexplicably removed the dub from VRV and that’s how I want to experience it.

* Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits because I already watched Konohana Kitan and didn’t see much of a difference.

* Captain Tsubasa because Viz licensed it and then just kinda sat on it everywhere except the Philippines.

* Inazuma Eleven because it just went completely unlicensed/unloved.

So, with those out of the way, from the bottom to the top, here’s everything I did manage this season.

Worst of the Season: Fist of the Blue Sky Re:Genesis (2/10)

Oh my god, it’s just the ugliest thing this side of Berserk. I don’t remember a damn thing about this one, and I’d bet that most people who watched it are with me on this one, because I was just distracted by how astoundingly awful the CG production in this show is.

Butlers x Battlers (3/10)

Ugh, what a boring slog of a premiere. I still pretty vividly remember this one, if only because it’s so painfully generic that it swung all the way around to be memorable again. Butlers spent almost its entire first episode on absolutely nothing before remembering in the last five minutes that it was supposed to have a plot and smash-cutting to it in the middle of a scene.

Caligula (3/10)

Where to start? After one of the most interesting premieres of the season, this adaptation pretty immediately sank into complete nonsense, and it’s such a massive waste of potential that this was the work of the writers behind the original Persona titles. Caligula is a show where the main characters literally forget the plot is happening and decide to go to a theme park while they’re trapped in a virtual world with a bunch of digi-zombies trying to murder them. Are you kidding me?

Devils’ Line (3/10)

I just did my write-up for this, so it’s a little fresher in my mind, but honestly, it’s just Twilight with adults and the edge factor turned up, and it looks damn silly trying to be as serious as it is. Sentai needs to choose a little more carefully than this if they want to promote their new service.

Libra of Nil Admirari (3/10)

This one was just so boring to look at that I don’t remember anything except that books were evil and it was a visual novel adaptation.

Dances With the Dragons (4/10)

I’m aware that I use the word “generic” an awful lot, but this season’s worst had quite a lot of that quality, and it applies here, too. Trying its hardest to be a mid-aughts grimdark action piece, it just does almost nothing interesting in its premiere, aside from giving the protagonist an already-existing girlfriend, which may have just been an attempt to quell any yaoi-baiting the two main dudes have going for them, because her only qualities demonstrated were “can’t cook” and “looks hot”.

Real Girl (4/10)

As I said in my write-up, I wanted so badly to like this one, but you need a budget of more than fifty cents to make an anime, and nearly every shot betrays just how little the studio was working with. We’re talking about the kind of show where the main cast goes to a summer festival, and appear to be the only people there. The story and writing just aren’t enough to make me put up with it.

Gundam Build Divers (4/10)

What a total letdown from this franchise. Fighters was an incredibly well-written show that was aimed at kids but could appeal to all Gundam fans, Try was divisive but the people that liked it (like me) got a lot out of it, but Divers just flounders. A relatively decent first episode gives way to episode after episode of Villain of the Week shenanigans that I cannot bring myself to care about because the main cast just aren’t interesting; they’re pretty much just generic shonen cardboard cutouts. This was one case where I was almost hoping for a sudden death game turnaround, because the idea of a bunch of kids being trapped in a game with lots of adults and giant robots would at least be a workable plot, but just fighting Team Rocket over and over again is boring schlock.

Magical Girl Ore (4/10)

I held out hope for too long on this one, but I had an inkling from the beginning that the humor was just going to turn me way, way off, and I was right. This one just carried too many bad implications if you thought about it, and they all piled up and crashed down on me the more I tried to keep going.

Magical Girl Site (4/10)

This show just couldn’t stay above water. The writing only got dumber as the plot carried on, and the fact that I was still watching became embarrassing, because most of the community watched one episode of this and dropped it like a hot rock. Hopefully I’ve learned my lesson.

Darling in the FRANXX (5/10)

What total bull, huh? I’ve never seen public opinion on a show turn around as fast as the community ripped Darling to shreds. While it’s visually gorgeous (most of the time), the writing in the second half of the show is just humiliating to everyone involved, as the script becomes a child Godzilla-stomping through a carefully-constructed castle of wood blocks. Once again, I yearn for Inferno Cop.

Persona 5 the Animation (5/10)

I said for the longest time during the lead-up to P5A that I didn’t really see the point of it. Persona 5 is the fastest-selling game in the franchise, and ultimately an adaptation would only serve to recap the plot, because that’s all it would have time to do in only six months. I actually enjoyed Persona 4 The Golden Animation, because it sold itself as a companion piece to the existing plot rather than a retread of it, and seeing the Scooby Gang just hanging out more was precisely what I wanted from it. A-1 Pictures just didn’t learn enough from the sins of Ace Attorney, because while this is better, it’s still not worth watching if you’ve played the game.

Last Period (5/10)

This one got some early buzz for halfway-decent production work and a skewering of gacha-based RPGs, but ultimately ended up repeating itself so often that it became boring, and sidelining the highlight of the show (the villain trio Wiseman) into having barely a few lines per episode. Just goes to show what happens when repeated gags get stale.

Now that those are out of the way, we can get to the stuff I actually finished!

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These (6/10)

Barely worth watching for how badly condensed the plot is, and barely worth talking about until the movies happen. That’s assuming we actually get them stateside, but I won’t hold my breath on that one. I coulodn’t even find a decent GIF for this one.

Crossing Time (6/10)

A fun, yet not especially memorable set of vignettes about people waiting for the train to go by. Some of the episodes were less enjoyable than others, but still worth a watch if only because it’ll only take you half an hour and anything you don’t like will probably be over quickly.

Golden Kamuy (6/10)

The last thing I finished for the season, Golden Kamuy’s failure to live up to high expectations lies in its inability to focus on its serious tone, constantly inserting dick jokes into its brutal fight scenes and dragging a poop joke on for entirely too long throughout the show, but it’s still good-looking enough to be worth watching, and it was the only decent show this season to pull out the announcement of a continuation in its last episode, without which it probably wouldn’t have gotten a pass from me.

Umamusume: Pretty Derby (7/10)

I still am amazed by the legwork that went into this silly little mobile game adaptation. While parts of it remain half-assed and unnecessary (the random idol performances being at the top of that list), it’s still a competently-written story about a protagonist who won’t let anything stop her from being The Very Best Like No One Ever Was, and I never get tired of that. The constant timeskips do get a little hard to keep track of, though.

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (7/10)

This one could have been improved by just tweaking a few things. While the characters were endearing and the comedy on-point, the story needed a little interference just so that we didn’t end the final episode in pretty much the same place as the second, because I didn’t get any sense of progress in the main relationship. Still, totally worth a watch if you were disappointed by the news that Recovery of an MMO Junkie was directed by a Nazi.

Comic Girls (7/10)

A very cute story of four artists living together and sharing their passion for manga. This one grew on me a lot over its run, and while I had been pretty certain it would be a 6, a satisfying ending and unnecessarily pretty production elevated it, and I’m glad I wound up finishing it.

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online (8/10)

This one has the distinction of being the first review I got hate mail for, because I said that Sigsawa was a far better writer than Kawahara and that the female characters in Alternative actually had agency, and boy are those things true. As it turns out, without Kirito-sama, Sword Art Online can actually be decent, or even great. A solid buildup, well-defined characters (that don’t want to bang the main character!) and a spectacular climax lead up to the best story in the franchise. Can’t wait for Alicization to bring SAO crashing back down to mediocrity-at-best.

Tada-kun Never Falls in Love (8/10)

The only HIDIVE show I finished this season! And the best of three romantic comedies we got this spring, because it gave us the progression and satisfaction that Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun wasn’t able to. While it hit a few stumbling blocks, Tada-kun was brought up at least two full points by its fantastic ending, and that was a great surprise since I was really skeptical going into the final few episodes, as they are a big shift in tone and setting from the rest of the show, but the story pulled it off brilliantly.

Hinamatsuri (8/10)

The funniest show of the season, hands-down, Hinamatsuri is the strange tale of a girl with psychic powers from another dimension coming to live with her new yakuza dad, and the hilarity that ensues. Hina herself is a great character, as her dimwittedness is the basis for a lot of the comedy in this show, but the real heart is Anzu, and the coming-of-age journey she takes over the course of the story. This series shows a great and uncommon sympathy to the downtrodden members of Japanese society, and ultimately is able to bring every character’s arc to a meaningful and satisfying conclusion...except for one. Shame about that final episode.

Food Wars: The Third Plate (9/10)

I’m surprised at the lack of heat I’ve gotten about my opinion on Food Wars, and maybe it’s because I’ve been too subtle about my feelings, so I’ll spell them out clearly now: Food Wars is better than My Hero Academia, and you should be watching it.

Lostorage Conflated WIXOSS (9/10)

Man, was this a satisfying turnaround from the disappointment that was incited. The decision to bring the original cast back for a Massive Multiplayer Team-Up was a great one, and meant that almost every character, but especially Midoriko, got the conclusion they really needed. I’m hoping that this is the end for this franchise, if only so it can go out on its highest note. Oh, also, the soundtrack is still awesome.

Best of the Season:...

...

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MEGALOBOX (10/10)

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, because MEGALOBOX was perfect from beginning to end and anybody who watched it is well aware of that fact. The sleeper hit of the season was everything the first episode promised; a gritty, 90′s-flavored story of one man’s journey to prove himself the best, and damn the consequences. MEGALOBOX is so great that it’s difficult to pick out individual elements of its awesomeness, but special mention should go to the music, because it is amazing. The OST of this one should go down in history along with that of Bebop as the best that anime has to offer.

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

30 Days of Kong: Day 4

What’s a Kong movie you’ve never seen?

I’ve seen every licensed Kong movie available to the public, plus the unlicensed ones made after the character entered the public domain, so here are some Kong-adjacent films and one technicality.

Japanese King Kong (1933) and King Kong Appears in Edo (1938) -- I think I’m in fairly good company with these ones, since they’ve been lost since World War II.

The Mighty Gorga (1969) -- Featuring what could very well be the worst-looking dinosaur in film history.

Mighty Joe Young (1998) -- Fun fact: this movie, along with Godzilla ‘98, blocked Peter Jackson’s original idea for a Kong remake.

King of the Lost World (2005) -- An early Asylum effort... so you’d think I would have gotten around to it by now. What’s wrong/right with me?

Kong: Skull Island (2017) -- The movie has apparently been finished for a few months now, but despite our telepathic connection, Brie Larson has yet to provide me with a ticket to an advance screening. Okay, maybe I just needed an even number of movies for this post.

[recentanimenews]

Gainax at 35 and Before: A Look Back at the Daicon Openings

  Gainax Studios was officially founded 35 years ago today, and would go on to bring us classics like Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise, Aim for the Top! Gunbuster, FLCL, and (of course) Evangelion. Hideaki Anno, Takami Akai, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and the rest of the studio's founders have created memborable titles throughout the years. But before Gainax was Gainax, they were a group of art students making shorts under the name Daicon Film: specifically, a now-famous pair of openings for the aforementioned science fiction convention.

  They brought us here, and now we're taking you back again: to the two creations that caught the eye of the anime world and showed what we were in for in the years to come!

  DAICON III: A New Opportunity

  In 1981, the trio of Anno, Akai, and Yamaga were commissioned to create a short opening feature for the upcoming Nihon SF Taikai. The event, which began in 1962 and still runs to this day, changes its name depending on where it's being held and by whom. When in Osaka, it is referred to as DAICON, literally "big con," but also a pun on daikon radishes. '81's event would be DAICON III.

  With the help of Toshio Okada and Yasuhiro Takeda, the three produced the 5 1/2-minute short in an empty room of Okada's house. The three worked non-stop, with a hand here and there on tracing and painting, on as much of a shoestring as you can imagine. Vinyl "cels" were cut from a roll mocked up by a vinyl manufacturer at a fraction of typical animation cel price, and they got what they paid for when it came to durability. A tripod-mounted camera was used for filming, and with no timing sheet to work from, Anno called out the shots himself.

  The result was this:

    While obviously the work of a small team, the DAICON III opening shows immense amounts of promise. Anno was already known for his mechanical animation skills thanks to a local tire commercial, and it shows through here. Akai animated the characters, including the superpowered schoolgirl. The story is simple (our heroine is tasked with protecting a glass of water, with which she waters a wilting radish that becomes the spaceship Daicon), and makes room for innumerable references. Look for cameos out of Ultraman, Godzilla, War of the Worlds, Starship Troopers, Star Trek, and Star Wars... and yet, there are no characters from works by Osamu Tezuka.

  After a heavy hint from Tezuka himself, the team made sure not to repeat the omission.

    DAICON IV: Message from Another Time

  Nihon SF Taikai would return to Osaka in 1983, and the group now known as Daicon Film would return as well... but this time they had increased in number, budget, and ambition.

  The opening to DAICON IV credited a dozen people with production, and was made under far more grueling conditions. With animators working overnight in a studio situated inside a textile factory, it's no wonder the animation quality increased exponentially—and also no wonder they chopped the project's initial 15-minute runtime down to less than 1/3 of its original ambitious length.

  One unpleasant production schedule and an (unlicensed) ELO track later, they had the DAICON IV opening. Our schoolgirl was back, but now all grown up and sporting a Playboy bunny costume. The animation is gorgeous, frenetic, and sometimes chilling. After fights between a cavalcade of sci-fi and anime heroes, an atomic bomb wipes out the earth, followed by a beam of light from the spaceship Daikon resulting in a flourish of rebirth. Finally, there's a flurry of characters—and if you had trouble keeping track in the rest of the video, just wait.

    With copies of both animations being sold to recoup production costs, the DAICON openings are arguably the first ever OVAs. Beyond that, they're a cultural benchmark, both for anime fans and for the creators who are still making amazing anime to this day.

    The DAICON Legacy

  Even if this is your first time seeing the shorts, some of the visuals may look strikingly familiar. There's been no shortage of callbacks to the iconic openings over the years, both within and outside of Gainax.

  FLCL fans will likely recognize the flying bunny girl from Haruko's own adventures... though with fewer swords and more robots and guitars. In case you miss the reference, she even gives a shout of "Daicon V!" to drive it home.

    Earlier on, the studio paid tribute to the DAICON girl in Otaku no Video, the story of a pair of anime fans who go on to start their own studio and become "Otakings." The OVA is based extremely loosely on the early days of Gainax, with Studio GIANT-X making their debut with a character named Misty May... who, like the DAICON girl, transforms from a schoolgirl into a busty bunnygirl.

    A much more on-the-nose depiction of Daicon Film's early days occurs in the series Blue Blazes, based on the manga by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. Shimamoto attended the Osaka University of Arts with the founders of Gainax, and the original manga and resulting adaptation serve as a biography of the founders' early days. In a recreation of a backstage moment from DAICON III, Toshio Okada plays Osamu Tezuka, berating his younger self for "forgetting something." One wonders just how clearly that moment is etched into his memory.

    Fans of Densha Otoko will recognize the animation and the music from the anime adaptation's opening: a tribute to the DAICON IV opening, representing the ambition and accomplishments of anime fans. As an added bonus, the music is licensed this time!

  The studio we came to know as Gainax was established a year after DAICON IV, and they've gone on to create some of our favorite series over the last few decades. Happy birthday, Gainax!

  Are you a fan of the DAICON openings? What's your favorite Gainax anime? Let's celebrate 35 years of awesome shows in the comments!

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Kara Dennison is the co-founder of Altrix Books and co-creator of OEL light novel series Owl's Flower, with writing credits across the Internet. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her latest book, Vanishing Tales of the City, is now available for pre-order.

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[mistfunk]

Today on Mistigram, let's take another crack at @Bhaal_Spawn's #gaminghaikus - this time, #SimCity2000 for #MS-DOS by #Maxis. (But... didn't they replace the unlicensed Godzilla appearance with a giant one-eyed spider droid? The point stands regardless.) Released in the recent MIST0917 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2gJCs0B

[retroactivelyours]

Queen Ghidorah-sama by Brian12

I think I've posted about this before, but last year I was googling cute anime girl versions of kaiju to harass Battleborn Friend with because he likes Godzilla, and I stumbled across this. The art‘s obviously rough, but I've had this saved in a folder since then because she has little hand-puppet heads and that's adorable

I'd also like to take an aside to note that I reverse image-searched this, and apparently Google is fully capable of recognizing it as King Ghidorah. Also:

The top three notable movies featuring King Ghidorah of course include an unlicensed fan animation made to advertise a convention.

[meganews77-blog]

Lost Films They Really Better Find Soon

10. The Unlicensed Batman Movie, Where he Fights Dracula: Batman Fights Dracula Over the years, hundreds of unlicensed of Batman products have been made without the permission of DC. Including, if you’re so inclined, the worst porno movie ever made, which is also, funnily enough, a lost film.

9. The First Ever Voiced Anime: Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka Anime is a lot like vaping, in that it’s incredibly popular among a diverse group of people, but diehard fans who take it too seriously insist that it’s a niche interest. Even if you’re not a big fan of anime, something cool from your childhood – whether it’s the Power Rangers or Tekken 2 – owes some part of its existence to this genre of media.

8. The Japanese Period Drama Starring King Kong: King Kong Appears in Edo Godzilla is considered a seminal work of Japanese cinema and is credited with being the genesis of the kaiju (giant monster) genre. Think the kind of movies Pacific Rim was an homage to. Weirdly though, there was a Japanese film starring a giant monster released nearly two decades before Godzilla starring the other OG of the giant monster world, King Kong, that has since been lost.

7. One of the Best Spy Dramas Ever Made: Squadron Leader X Recently there’s been a backlash of sorts against the glut of CGI-filled movies dominating the box office every summer. There has been a renewed appreciation for good old fashioned practical effects. Few people realize, though, just how old fashioned practical effects are. For example, consider the film Squadron Leader X, a 1943 spy thriller that features actual stunts and aerial dog-fights performed by actual members of the British Air Force during war time. Meaning the planes featured in this movie were real Allied planes, that had taken part in actual dog fights with the Axis, that the director somehow convinced to take part in pretend dog fights, for fun.

6. The Gay Porno Starring Jesus: HIM Okay so we kind of lied about wanting to keep things PG. But this one is too weird to not mention. Weird because the film was deemed so offensively unerotic that people genuinely don’t believe it ever existed. What little we know about the plot says that it focuses on a young man who becomes sexually fixated with Jesus. Which is, well…really weird. But hey, who are we to judge the kind of things people find sexy?

5. Another Film About a Man in a Gorilla Costume Terrorizing Japan: Wasei Kingu Kongu We know what you’re thinking: we already did this entry, right? Well as it turns out, Japan was way more into King Kong than we ever realized. Released in 1933 (the same year as King Kong), Wasei Kingu Kongu (that’s the actual title) follows the adventures of a young man called Santa (that’s his actual name) who, inspired by the film King Kong, dons a gorilla costume and takes part in a stage show to earn money to impress a girl he likes.

4. The Disney Movie, Before Disney: Le avventure di Pinocchio It says a lot about Disney as a company that they’re so powerful, folk stories that have existed for centuries – and in some cases, millennia – belong to them, because nobody would be willing to face down their legal department to make a Snow White or Pinocchio movie. Curiously, Disney as we know it today may never have existed if not for one Italian company abandoning – ironically – a Pinocchio movie.

3. The Bruce Lee Movie Where He Straight Up Murders People: The Big Boss, Original Mandarin Cut It’s no secret that we love us some Bruce Lee here at TopTenz. Which is why we’re all kinds of annoyed that there is a film starring our main man that we’ll never get to see. The Big Boss was the film that first catapulted Bruce Lee to fame, but as we’ve mentioned before, there’s a bunch of stuff cut from that movie including scenes of Bruce Lee killing people with gardening implements, and having sex with prostitutes.

2. The Colorized Version of the Best Movie Ever Made: Citizen Kane We’re not going to waste valuable digital ink fawning over Citizen Kane, because there are like 8,000 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes already doing that. The film is rightfully considered a cinematic masterpiece, though at the time it was crapped on because the guy it was parodying threw a big temper tantrum. Figures.

1. The Original (Better) Copy of One of the Worst Films Ever: Foodfight! The title of “worst film ever made” is paradoxically one that is more contested than the title of best, with dozens of films vying for the place beneath the scum at the bottom of the barrel. If Foodfight! isn’t the worst film ever made, it is certainly a worthy contender.

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