Nezura 1964

Nezura 1964 (2020)

ネズラ1964

Persistence. Determination. Tenacity. This film.

A biopic based on the production of Daiei's Giant Horde Beast Nezura, the scrapped precursor to Gamera.

Date of release
2020-12-19
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
55m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, History
Director
Hiroto Yokokawa

Casting

Interesting facts

Nezura 1964 is a 2020 Japanese crowdfunded kaiju biopic film directed by Hiroto Yokokawa. The film was based on Daiei Film's unfinished 1964 Gamera precursor Giant Horde Beast Nezura and stars Yukijirō Hotaru as a character based on the president of Daiei, Mai Saitō, Mach Fumiake, and Shirō Sano. Giant Horde Beast Nezura itself was a successor of a scrapped project Giant Sea Demon Dagora, and the director Yokokawa produced a 2021 short film based on it by reusing props of Nezura 1964.

Production

On December 7, 2020, Takuya Imahori and Michiaki Watanabe were announced as the film's composers.

The plot focused on the production of Giant Horde Beast Nezura before the Gamera franchise, and various members of film crews and casts have previously participated in Gamera productions. Its theme song Nezura March by Mach Fumiake was also a homage to Gamera March.

Filming of Nezura 1964 also utilized live rats to accurately recreate shooting conditions of Giant Horde Beast Nezura, but complied with animal welfare by combining with CGI and other special effects.

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