![]() ![]() Close enough for me, anyway, and i doubt people went to see movies like this for the scientific accuracy. ![]() Simple as that, there aren’t any actual dinosaurs in “Legends Of Dinosaurs And Monster Birds”.ĭid audiences at the time cared the taxonomical accuracy of the movie title? Nope.ĭo i? Nope as well, because despite being “technically correct” (the best kind of correct), i feel these creatures belong in the “dino area” anyway, given how closely connected they were to the animals actually classifiable as “dinosaurs”. Look, i feel i’ve gotta say this otherwise dinosaur freaks will 100 % correct me on this, but yes, despite the title, the common conceptions you most likely have, none of the two creatures are actually dinosaurs. ![]() Interestingly, this was a japanese kaiju movie spurred by the international success of Spielberg’s Jaws (release in 1976 in Japan) and a coincidental resurgence of reports of Nessie in Loch Ness, so Toho settled to make it about a geologist who start investing strange reports of fossilized eggs and odd events surrounding the Saiko Lake (one of the Five Fuji Lakes) community, including a headless horse carcass and mysterious disappearances of people in the lake area.Įventually Takashi puts the clues together and surmises it must be a Plesiosaur doing this, which turns out to be true, as it attacks the lakeside attendants during an event (hi, Jaws parallel), but in japanese monster movie tradition, the creature it’s bound to fight with another monster, a “Rhamphorhynchus” (basically a type of pterosaur like the pteranodon), emerging from a hidden cave in the Aokigahara region (aka the tragically famous “Sea Of Trees”, subject of a very crap Gus Van Sant movie to make things even worse), as accidentally discovered by a young girl. We previously spotlighted the delights of live action tokutatsu monster and superhero anime hybrid with the Dinosaur War Izenborg 4 episodes-to-compilation film “Attack Of The Super Monsters” by Tsuburaya Productions, so let’s talk about an even more obscure kaiju film, this time by Toei, with Legends Of Dinosaurs And Monster Birds, also known as Legend Of The Dinosaurs. ![]()
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