Gamera the Brave

Gamera the Brave (2006)

小さき勇者たち ～ガメラ～

Gamera fights for the boy, the boy fights for Gamera.

A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that grows into a new version of Gamera. But will it become powerful enough in time to defeat the rampaging monster Zedus?

Date of release
2006-04-29
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (86)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Family
Director
Ryuta Tasaki

Casting

Interesting facts

Gamera the Brave is a 2006 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ryuta Tasaki, written by Yukari Tatsui, and produced by Kadokawa Daiei Studio. It is the twelfth and latest installment in the Gamera film series, and serves as the second reboot of the franchise, with the first being Gamera: Guardian of the Universe in 1995, as well as the final installment of the Heisei-era Gamera film series. It is also the first entry in the series to be produced by Kadokawa Daiei Studio after the company purchased a percentage of the remaining assets of Daiei Film, the original studio that was responsible for making the Gamera films.

Production

Despite its popularity, the Heisei Gamera trilogy was highly controversial among executives, crew of the Showa films and even crew of the trilogy itself. Showa Gamera director Noriaki Yuasa, who died two years prior to the release of Gamera the Brave, expressed his frustration with the Heisei trilogy and emphasized the importance of differentiating the franchise from Godzilla, hoping Daiei to "resurrect Showa Gamera", as he describes in 2003's Th…

The Heisei trilogy's direction was shaped due to the tendencies of director Shusuke Kaneko, screenwriter Kazunori Ito and sound designer Shinji Higuchi, who were not fans of both Gamera and Heisei Godzilla continuity, and particularly the first two's motivations for the trilogy being rooted in their frustrations over unrealized opportunities to direct Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars (1990) and Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992).

Particularly the 1999 film Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris had garnered controversy on release, with reports stating children crying profusely at the destruction Gamera had caused in Shibuya in it, resulting in walk-outs on screenings.

In 2002, Kadokawa acquired Daiei Film from Tokuma Shoten, with Kadokawa president Kazuo Kuroi announcing intentions to produce a Godzilla vs. Gamera film, alongside a reboot of historical tokusatsu series Daimajin. This followed a failed attempt to produce a crossover by Yasuyoshi Tokuma, prior to his death in 2000. Toho eventually turned down the offers, leading to the production of Gamera the Brave.

Daiei executives and crew of Gamera the Brave were aware of the popularity of the Heisei trilogy, Kadokawa Daiei's financial insufficiency, and the risks to fail by rebooting with a completely different series, as taking a different path from the trilogy was controversial (pros and cons were comparable within Kadokawa) where a number of stakeholders had suggested to produce either sequels to the trilogy or its prequel or a side story, or similar…

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