War of the Gargantuas (or Frankenstein no kaiju: Sanda tai Gaira) is a sequel of sorts to Frankenstein Conquers the World.

In this film a Frankenstein monster, now covered in a green algae like fur emerges from the ocean and attacks some ships and eating people. Frankenstein is blamed although scientists are baffled since Frankenstein neither lives in the ocean, nor does he eat people.

The military sets up attacks and does surprisingly well considering their record in past kaiju movies. All mysteries are solved when a second Frankenstein's monster, known as Sanda, shows up seemingly to help the sea-Frankenstein (Gaira.)

War of the Gargantuas was one of the last of the great Japanese kaiju films on my list to be watched. In a way, I'm almost a little sad knowing that the list is so small that when gems like this are finally released here my list gets shorter and shorter.

Either way, for a kaiju film it's a good one with plenty of monster scenes, tons of action and the human drama is kept to a minimum. It's defintely worth picking up.

Also, I've reviewed Rodan twice before so I'm not going to review it again. Just get this disc and enjoy!

Labels: 31 days of film, Japanese, Kaiju, Tokusatsu