They eventually battle and then fall into an erupting Mount Fuji. It turns out that not one but two kaiju are on the loose: a plesiosaurus and a rhamphorhynchus. There’s even a gory scene where a headless horse is found hidden in a tree. The film takes inspiration from the aforementioned shark movie, having attacks on boaters and swimmers and a build of the tension until the monster is unleashed. Therefore, this was the perfect movie for Toei to appeal to not just the Japanese movie audience, but one across the world.
At the same time, everyone had grown obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster. After all, who knew monster movies better than them?įilming started the very same month that Jaws was released overseas. Toei president Shigeru Okada attended several film festivals and trade fairs in America and as he saw the way the film business was shifting toward blockbusters like Jaws, he felt that Japan should follow that trend.
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