Lost Kaiju Films.

## Wolfman vs. Godzilla (1983)

Legendary Giant Beast Wolfman vs. Godzilla vs Godzilla also known as the Wolfman vs Godzilla Director Shizuo Nakajima conceived the idea for the film during his employment with Toho as a production assistant. He envisioned it as a feature-length film with human drama and location shots and as a love-letter to Eiji Tsuburaya's works, however, Nakajima also drew inspiration from *The Curse of the Werewolf*. The team purchased materials directly from Toho and built miniature industrial factories, buildings, and a replica of the 1964 Godzilla suit. Using former Toho employees, principal photography began in 1983 and wrapped in the mid-80s, with 10 hours of raw footage completed. The film was shot on 8 mm film. Post-production has been active since the mid-80s and is currently continuing on the film.

## Cozzilla (Godzilla 1977) Luigi Cozzi's Godzilla ( Cozzilla, 1977)

**IN COLOR!** Injured American reporter Steve Martin is brought from the ruins of Tokyo to a hospital filled with maimed and wounded citizens. A recent acquaintance, Emiko, discovers him by chance among the victims and attempts to find a doctor for him.

Martin recalls in flashback stopping over in Tokyo, where a series of inexplicable ship disasters catches his attention. When a victim of those disasters washes up on Odo Island, Martin flies there for the story, along with Tomo Iwanaga, a representative of the Japanese Security Defense Forces (JSDF). There he learns of the island inhabitants' long-held belief in a sea monster god known as "Godzilla", which they believe is causing the disasters. That night, a heavy rain and wind storm strikes the island, destroying many houses and killing some villagers. The islanders believe that Godzilla and not the storm is responsible for the destruction.

Martin returns to the devastated island with Dr. Yamane, who is leading a team to investigate its ruins. Huge radioactive footprints and a prehistoric trilobite are discovered. An alarm rings and Martin, the villagers, and Dr. Yamane's team head up a hill for safety. Near the summit, they see Godzilla's head and upper torso looking down at them, and they quickly flee downhill. Dr. Yamane later returns to Tokyo and presents his findings. Godzilla was resurrected by repeated Pacific nuclear tests. He estimates the creature to be more than 400 feet tall. To Yamane's dismay, the military responds by attempting to kill the giant creature with depth charges. Martin contacts his old friend, Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, for dinner, but Serizawa declines due to planned commitments with his fiancé.

Emiko, Dr. Yamane's daughter, goes to Serizawa's home to break off her arranged engagement to him because she is actually in love with Hideo Ogata, a salvage ship captain. Dr. Serizawa, however, gives her a demonstration of his secret project, which horrifies her. She is sworn to secrecy and unable to bring herself to break off the engagement. Godzilla surfaces from Tokyo Bay, unharmed by the depth charges, and attacks the city, destroying a train before returning to the bay. The next morning, to repel the monster, the JSDF supercharges the tall electrical towers along Tokyo's coast.

The King of the Monsters resurfaces that night and breaks through the electrical towers and JSDF tank and artillery defense line using his atomic heat breath. With his tape recorder, Martin documents Godzilla's annihilation of the city and is injured during the attack. The military sends in more tanks and even fighter jets, but their counter-attack fails. Godzilla returns to the sea leaving Tokyo a burning, destroyed ruin (the flashback ends).

Martin wakes up in the hospital with Emiko and Ogata. Horrified by the destruction, Emiko reveals to Martin and Ogata the existence of Dr. Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer, which disintegrates oxygen atoms in salt water and causes all marine organisms to die of acidic asphyxiation. Emiko and Ogata go to Dr. Serizawa to convince him to use his weapon on Godzilla, but he initially refuses. After watching a television broadcast showing the nation's plight, Serizawa finally gives in to their pleas.

A Navy ship takes Ogata, Serizawa, Yamame, Martin, and Emiko out to the deepest part of Tokyo Bay. Wearing deep sea diving gear, Ogata and Serizawa are lowered down by lifelines near the sleeping Godzilla to plant the weapon. On the bottom, they quickly move into position, awakening the monster. Serizawa signals the surface and Ogata is pulled up, but Serizawa delays his ascent and activates the device. He radios the surface to tell them that it is working and also wishes Emiko and Ogata happiness together. Removing his knife, he cuts his diving helmet's oxygen supply line and rope tether, taking the secret of his invention to the grave. Godzilla succumbs to the force of the Oxygen Destroyer, eventually dissolving to just a pile of bones. All aboard the ship mourn the loss of Dr. Serizawa. In this solemn moment Martin makes a final observation, "The menace was gone, so was a great man. But the whole world could wake up and live again".

the full movie is now available on https://archive.org/details/CozzillaRestoredGenoCuddy

## frankenstein vs the giant devil fish

he 1965 Toho-UPA co-produced kaiju film *Frankenstein Conquers the World* (also known as *Frankenstein vs. Baragon*) had an alternate ending that was intended for the American release but was never used. The scene itself involved Frankenstein battling a Giant Octopus (known as Oodako) in the climax of the film, after defeating his main opponent of the film, Baragon. He fought fiercely, but eventually succumbed to the many tentacles and long reach of the octopus and was dragged into the water.

In the normal ending, he is simply sucked into the ground by an earthquake.

## Information

Stills of the scene were shown to the public in various trade magazines such as Famous Monsters of Filmland in the 1960s, confusing readers into the confusion of the magazine writers. The film was also titled *Frankenstein vs The Giant Devilfish* in these magazines, further confusing readers.

According to director of the film Ishiro Honda, there were more ending concepts, and that the octopus scene was just one of the five or six endings.

"The movie was made in co-production with an American company, Benedict Pictures Corporation. The bosses were so astonished by the octopus scenes from *King Kong vs. Godzilla*, they begged to include it into the screenplay, even in spite of logic. So we shot some scenes with the Giant Octopus but, in the end, they were left out of the picture."

"In fact Mr.Tsuburaya had shot five or six final scenes for this film. The infamous giant octopus is only one of these endings. That is, the top brass at Toho was told the giant octopus scenes in *King Kong vs Godzilla* were popular in the U.S., and so they wanted a similar scene in this production. But in the end it was rejected by the U.S side (by Henry Saperstein) as "too abrupt", and was not used in either the respective U.S or Japanese releases. Furthermore, there was never any official plan to utilize the sequence; but an alternative print with that ending was accidentally aired on television surprising many Japanese fans- because it was not the ending they had remembered from the original theatrical release."

The alternate ending had actually aired on Japenese television after the theatrical release, but no recording of the scene exists. There are some deleted stills of the scene, however, it is just unlikely that the scene will ever see the light of day

the full movie is now available on https://archive.org/details/FRANKENSTEINVS.THEGIANTDEVILFISH1965InternationalVersionHD

or the ending on https://vimeo.com/292047672

or music on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byY8BLD3QeY

## Wolfman vs Baragon

**Wolfman vs. Baragon** (バラゴン vs 狼男) is a 1972 short fan film directed by Shizuo Nakajima.

## Plot

Wolfman appears out from some trees and attacks, up until he then runs into Baragon who also is in the midst of an attack. The two kaiju fight for a while, until Wolfman seemingly gets the upper hand of the battle.

## History

Long before *Wolfman vs. Godzilla*, the Wolfman initially was conceived for this short film, in where the Wolfman sports a radically different design from his 1983 counterpart, looking more like a traditional werewolf, with ripped clothing, less fur and lower budget look. Some scenes were shot of Wolfman and Baragon fighting, but in the end, it was scrapped; with a Godzilla suit soon being made, as well as brand new Wolfman suit and Baragon was soon cut out altogether. The short film itself was never completed.

full film now available on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa3Mb4g7DxM

## King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) deleted (cut) scenes cut from the film in the 70s

Kong is **dropped** next to **Godzilla** at the summit of Mount Fuji ... These **cut scenes** can be seen in the Japanese theatrical trailer.