Weekly Kaiju Movie Thread #59

[MouthForWar]

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[Henry88]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Henry88]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Henry88]

and it looks like this week might be a breather.

[MouthForWar]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Henry88]

[DannyBeane]

I give up. I've tried several torrent sites and can't find half human.

[Alpha OTS]

[metal_bryan]

[MouthForWar]

[MekaGojira3k]

[O.Supreme]

Ok so I just viewed my Japanese Half-Human DVD. Apparently it has been a long time. The version I have has only about half of the dialogue subtitled. I was wondering if that is the same version others have, or is there a better one out there?

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[MouthForWar]

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I finished watching Ju Jin Yuki Otoko this week. That name seems to flow effortlessly in my thought process now, as memorizing it was the only way I could find this rare flick. I honestly don't think I've ever seen many, if any, Yeti movies. That story with the crate in Creepshow doesn't really count, nor does the two parter of the Million Dollar Man combating an alien built robotic Bigfoot that Leonard Nimoy was probably in search of. That said, this is a pretty good Yeti movie.

I really like the initial setup where friends go missing during a snowstorm, and the goal is to find out what happened to them. Once the storm passes the search party sets out. They find the house where the missing people were supposed to have gone, only it seems to have been ransacked and the man they do find is dead. Strange fur and footprints are found with the implication that this may have been an animal attack.

As it goes along, you find out the Yeti isn't evil at all, and it has a symbiotic relationship with the villagers of Garan valley who worship it as "The Master". In the thread discussion so far it had been pointed out that this movie was banned because of the depiction of those villagers. My copy of the movie is pretty awful, and I even had trouble reading some of the subtitles because of the lower than normal resolution. I could tell something was off about the villagers.



In fact the first time I saw a couple of them spying on the expedition camp, I wasn't entirely sure they weren't the Yeti. This is partly to blame on the quality of the copy I'm viewing. So it's possible it might not be as bad as I think, but its also distinctly possible that it's worse than I think especially once you formally meet the villagers. They look wrong, they walk wrong. There's something inbred about the whole village, except, of course, for the rebellious village girl who looks out of place and seems to be the movie's sex appeal.



What I liked about the movie is that the Yeti is initially painted as a brutal killing animal, but as it goes along, you find out what you thought was wrong and its pretty peaceful if left unprovoked. The scene above with the Yeti rescuing one of the campers that had been left tied up and hanging from a rope off a cliff face by the villagers whom I think intended for the Yeti to find this outsider and pass judgement on him is an indicator that all of their previous thinking about the Yeti is ill-founded(holy run on sentences!)

The ending is probably the weakest part where the movie seems to deliberately go to the 50's formula of monster-grabbing-the-girl. Although I was feeling sorry for the creature at that point as it had just lost its child because of and had been tormented by the "evil" expedition team.

As I said, my copy is barely viewable, so I wasn't really able to really appreciated the suit. I was hoping I could see the influences this had on the King Kong suit if any.