Girala's Counterattack / Lake Toya Summit Crisis

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Girala's Counterattack / Lake Toya Summit Crisis (also known as Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit) is a 2008 Suitmation tokusatsu kaiju film,Directed by Minoru Kawasaki.

## Plot

A monster appeared in Sapporo to coincide with the start of the Toyako Summit . The signboard of the " Summit " was hung on the "G8 Space Monster Countermeasures Operations Headquarters" because President Berger of the United States said to the leaders who were trying to escape , "The approval rating has increased by exterminating monsters!" Can be replaced.

In order to protect the "beautiful country", the Japanese branch of the Earth Defense Force is attacked, but Girara eats Japan's proud new surface-to-ground missile "Hagewashi" with mogumogu. Italy "Roman soul operation (Pitfall operation)", Russia, Germany, Britain ..., a big operation betting the prestige of the nation that is set up one after another. However, it has no effect on the space monster Girara.

Meanwhile, Tokyo Sports reporter Sumida River Sumire and photographer Toyama Sanpei witness a mysterious group at a shrine on the shore of the lake, and they will hold the fate of all humankind.

## Cast

* Sumida River Sumire- Natsuki Kato
* Sanpei Toyama- Kazuki Kato
* Prime Minister Sanzo Ibe- Hide Fukumoto
* Former Prime Minister Junsaburo Oizumi-Akira Matsushita
* Old Man Wakiya-Matabe Watanabe
* US President Earth Berger- Heese Jon
* Russian President Beef Stroganuf Putchin- Anatoly Krasnov
* German President Angelica Robenbrow- Inge Murata
* Maple Syrup Harris Prime Minister- Christo Pietro
* Prime Minister Pizzano Pietro- Roberto Corassanti[1]
* British Prime Minister Meat Pie Brightman- Wayne Doster
* French President Escalugo Solkozi- Ingo
* Northern Dictator- Zeeko Uchiyama
* KGB- Rikaya Spner
* Italian Pilot- Tebu Robin
* British Pilot- Niclas Ericsson
* Shinichi- Mitsuto Fujita
* Shinichi Childhood- Kaiwei Asano
* Boy- Shutaro Yoshida
* Toshio-Setsu Ishiwa
* Villager- Nomaru Abe
* Interpreter Woman 1- Kei Akazawa
* Interpreter Woman 2- Yuko Shoji
* Interpreter Woman 3- Hikari Nagase
* Interpreter Woman 4- Haruka Inoue
* Interpreter Woman 5- Maiko Kawamura
* Interpreter Woman 6- Rei Natsumi
* Interpreter Woman 7- Emi Ota
* Interpreter Woman 8- Yuri Morishita
* Tokyo Sports Reporter- Yuichi Nango
* Noboribetsu Manjuya Clerk 1- Reijiro Kato
* Noboribetsu Manjuya Clerk 2- Kang Saint
* Girara Suit Actor - Hurricane Ryu
* Take Monster Suit Actor- Yuichi Okada
* Announcer- Kon Arimura
* Reporter 1 -Raper Sato
* Reporter 2- Akiko Kobayashi
* Reporter 3- Masahiko Aoki
* Reporter 4- Yoichi Okamura
* Reporter 1 --DAIZO
* Reporter 2- Kazuki Kurosawa
* SP1- Tomonori Matsubara
* SP2- Naoya Oshima
* Secretary Ueno- Akihisa Konishi
* Captain Soma- Shoken Kunimoto
* Captain Miyake- Akitoshi Otaki
* Defense member 1- Ikki Matsuda
* Defense Force 2 -Sho Sawakita
* Defense Member 3- Takeshi Ishizaka
* Defense Member 4- Naoki Nakamura
* Defense Force 5- Yakan Nabe
* Sugishita- Aja Matsuda
* Komatsu member- Kazuyoshi Sakai
* Editor-in-chief Kawanishi- Junichi Inoue
* Jun Miura ( special appearance )
* Lily Franky (special appearance)
* Haruo Mizuno (special appearance)
* Dr. Sano- Shunya Wazaki
* Dr. Fukami- Masami Horiuchi
* Mayor Makichi- Eiichi Kikuchi
* Miyaji Morikawa- Hirohisa Nakata
* Staff Staff Takamine- Satoshi Furuya
* Staff Staff Kimura- Susumu Kurobe
* Secretary Narumi- Yosuke Natsuki
* Take Monster- Beat Takeshi

## Staff

* Producers: Shinobu Suzuki, Minoru Kawasaki, Shuntaro Kanai
* Produced by: Masanobu Suzuki, Koichi Shiota
* Music: Yasuhiko Fukuda
* Theme song: DEV PARADE "cosmic mind"
* Lighting: Yutaka Iwasaki
* Recording / sound adjustment: Ichiro Hoshi
* Art: Tetsuya Uchida
* Assistant Director: Takashi Ochiai
* Producer: Seiki Takahashi
* Special effects: Special effects laboratory
* Special effects advisor: Hiroshi Butsuda
* Choreography: Kaoruko
* Special molding: Fuyuki Shinada, Koichi Tsuboi
* Special makeup: Soichi Umezawa
* Illustration in the play: Yoshihito Sugahara
* Take Monster Design: Yu Ebihara
* Bamboo Majin Statue Design Production: Reijiro Kato
* New Astro Boat Design: Hiroshi Sagae
* Sound Effects ・ MA: Swara Pro
* Lab: IMAGICA
* Shooting cooperation: Tokyo Sports , Hitachi Transport System , Location Gotemba, Hokkaido Location Liaison Office, etc.
* Production Production: River Top
* Production cooperation: Kodai, Zooi
* Executive Producer: Takeo Hisamatsu, Kazutaka Akimoto, Masafumi Fukui, Shunsuke Fujiwara, Yasuhiko Uramoto
* Production Committee members: Shochiku , Satellite Theater , Wedge Holdings , Rivertop, Tornado Film , Defstar Records , Famima.com

## Titles

* Girala's Counterattack / Lake Toya Summit Crisis (Japanese: ギララの逆襲/洞爺湖サミット危機一発 Original Japanese release title)
* Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (Worldwide release title)
* Girara's Counterattack Toya Lake Summit Crisis (Japanese title)
* Girara's Gyakushu Toyako Summit Kikiippatsuu (Japanese title)

## Other Works

* A work by Haruo Mizuno , a film critic and film director . Originally, "Crisis one shot" in the subtitle should be written as "Crisis one shot", but from the episode that Mizuno changed the Japanese title to "007 Crisis one shot" when " 007 with love from Russia " was released. , This notation was adopted.
* At the Venice International Film Festival, it was screened at the same venue immediately after the screening of " Achilles and the Tortoise " directed by Takeshi Kitano .
* In the play, Yuri Morishita speak French is very fluent, although the French for the dubbing has been prepared, which is used as it is.
* Minoru KawasakiIngo , an Iranian actor who plays French President Solkozi, is lip-synching because he can't speak French at all.
* The soundtrack by Hirohiko Fukuda is based on a homage to Akira Ifukube , who has worked on numerous monster movies such as " Godzilla ," and is composed of a string of world-famous songs related to the eight countries participating in the summit.[2]Minoru Kawasaki
* The Jinnaka sympathy of this work Nobuo Yajima feats director and cartoonist one peak large two are thrilled to have visited staff  .
* Shunya Wazaki, who played the leading role Sano in the previous work, has a guest appearance in the role of Dr. Sano with the same surname.

## Remarks

* During an interview in the movie, a local man says that he would have preferred to have had Varan or Baragon attack Hokkaido over Guilala.
* This film features the return of Hurricane Ryu Hariken as a suit actor.

## DVD

*"Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit"* was released in North America on DVD on June 30, 2009 by Media Blasters. The special features are a photo gallery and Tokyo Shock trailers.

**Tokyo Shock** DVD (2009)

* **Region:**1
* **Discs:** 1
* **Audio:** Japanese (2.0 Mono)
* **Subtitles:** English
* **Special features:** Publicity photo slideshow (4 minutes), trailers for other Tokyo Shock DVD releases

Though *Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit* is not available on Blu-ray, an HD version can be rented or purchased on the Japanese versions of Amazon Video and iTunes.