Gamera vs. Zigra
During the latter part of the 20th Century, Japan has established a research base on the moon. An unidentified spacecraft approaches. With a red beam, it blows up the base building and a rocket sittin…
Gamera vs. Zigra
During the latter part of the 20th Century, Japan has established a research base on the moon. An unidentified spacecraft approaches. With a red beam, it blows up the base building and a rocket sitting on a launch. With a green beam, it makes a moon jeep disappear. Dr. Wallace and Dr. Ishikawa are scientists in the Marine Lab at Kamogawa Sea World. Ishikawa's sister is caring for Wallace's two daughters, Margie and Helen, as his wife is at the hospital anticipating the arrival of a new baby. The girls are difficult to wake. Helen is a kindergartener. Ishikawa's little boy, Kenichi, is also in kindergarten and brushing his teeth. The dolphins at Sea World also need their teeth brushed. The girls kiss a picture of their mother goodbye; the dolphins say goodbye to their audience. All three kids head for school promising to learn as well as the seals do. The seals show off their training in a race. Helen and Ken are missing after school. Wallace and Ishikawa are taking water samples and discussing the rise in ocean pollution. Their radios report a magnitude 12 earthquake in Arabia that has claimed 30,000 victims. They head to their boat for a break and are puzzled to find an empty thermos of juice and no sandwiches in the lunch box. Their suspicions cause them to lift the tarps mounded in the back of the boat. Hiding underneath are Helen and Ken. Ken notices a strange craft descend from the sky and dive into the water. The two men and two children climb into the boat to check out the vicinity where the craft dove. Ken hears a noise that makes him search the sky. He spots Gamera. Suddenly, the boat is hit with a green beam and the four passengers find themselves inside an alien spaceship. It's a fourth dimension ray with instant transfer power. A woman tells them that this is the Zigra Star spaceship from Celestial Body Number 105. Zigra Planet is 480 light years distant. She demands in a radio broadcast that Earth's people surrender. She will cause a magnitude 13 earthquake in the Tokyo area to prove their superior scientific technology. Wallace and Ishikawa tell her that her claims are impossible. She shows them parts of Tokyo in ruins. The spacewoman explains their reason for arrival on Earth. They are an underwater society. Development has polluted their oceans, so they have been looking for a watery planet as a new home. Earth, with 70% of its surface covered by water, is ideal. We will take over your seas before you pollute them. Ishikawa agrees to testify that her statements are true. When Wallace calls her race insane, she looks into his eyes and snaps her fingers. His head droops as he loses consciousness. When Ishikawa confronts her, he suffers the same fate. Ken tells Helen not to look at the spacewoman's eyes. They run over to one of the rotating structures and stop it. This freezes the woman. They put their dads back in the boat and Ken sends them back to the ocean surface by passing his hand over the green control button. They try unsuccessfully to rouse their parents or start the boat's motor. The Zigra monster wakes the spacewoman with a yellow beam before instructing her to kill the two children who know too much. She argues to just kill everyone, but Zigra warns her that people and land animals are needed for food. Back in the boat, the children are encouraged when they spot a ship. But a giant shark hits the ship and causes it to explode. Then it heads towards them. It misses on the first pass. The children scream for help. Gamera hears them and comes to the rescue. He picks the boat out of the water and carries it to an island. Helen and Ken go in search of someone to help. They encounter a peculiarly dressed man. Ken thinks they have somehow gone back in time. The man reassures them that it is 1971. He indicates they are on Niyemon Island, a location named after an ancestor who hid Lord Minamoto there 800 years ago. The children return to Kamogawa where the military presses them for information. Their answers are not very useful, arguing over whose mother is prettier than the Space Woman. The two scientists, still in a comatose state, are taken for medical treatment. Their brainwaves are not human in nature. A call from United Nations Headquarters urges the Defense Army Commander to deploy jets to confront the alien presence. Their intent is to drop depth charges in the vicinity of the submerged spacecraft. Zigar is relentless in shooting down the entire air fleet. The woman comes ashore to kill the two children. In pursuit of them, she has to hypnotize three girls who were recreating at the beach. She borrows one of the swim suits as a disguise. Authorities have ordered an evacuation of Kamogawa. Because normal business is interrupted, the Sea World hotel manager and the Sea World Trainer argue over who gets the few fish that are available. The trainer wins. The woman stops his SUV for a ride to Sea World, confirming her targets are there. At Sea World, the Space Woman realizes her swimming suit is unacceptable attire. She stops a woman who is entering, hypnotizes her, and dons her clothing. She zaps a guard who confronts her in the hall. She eavesdrops on a conference with the military, scientists and doctors. They discuss perhaps using a hydrogen bomb. Suddenly, a soldier walks in leading the zapped guard. Perhaps there is a Zigra soldier at Sea World. The Space Woman sneaks into the living quarters where Ken and Helen are watching newscasts of all the damage in Tokyo. She bumps into an object that warns the children. They flee and she gives chase. As they run by a group of reporters, one of them recognizes her as Miss Sugawara. She turns and zaps them all. Having lost the children, she enters the sky tower elevator. The kids quickly close the door and start the compartment on its upward trip, effectively imprisoning her for the time being. Ken cries out for help from Gamera. He hears the plea and responds by diving into the sea after the Zigra Ship. An underwater fight ensues in which Gamera destroys the ship with fire blasts and heavy rocks. The Zigra monster is now on its own as a huge, armored shark. Gamera grabs it and flies it to the beach where the battle continues. After three blasts of the yellow beam, Gamera topples into the sea in a comatose condition. Zigra jumps back in the ocean and warns all Earth residents that resistance is useless. He will rule the seas. The Sea World trainer she's the children being pursue by the Space Woman. He thinks they are avoiding an evacuation guide. He learns this is not the case when he talks to Ken's mother who is with the doctors and the two comatose scientists. He hears they are blind but do not bump into objects when walking. This leads him to show videos of a blind dolphin who is in a similar situation. The doctor suddenly speculates that high frequency sound waves may be how Zigra communicates with those under hypnosis. He screeches into a military radio which causes the two scientists to grab their heads and writhe on the floor. Soon, they have regained consciousness. Everyone rushes outside to find the kids who were being chased. They see the Space Woman dragging them against their wills. Ishikawa grabs the radio transceiver and makes noises into it. The Space Woman collapses onto the ground. When everyone approaches, she is confused as to why she is here rather than on the moon. The last she remembers is driving a moon jeep toward a crater. Ishikawa and Wallace agree that Zigra brainwashed her to do his bidding. She is the Miss Sugakawa that the reporter recognized. The authorities discuss how to defeat Zigra. Ken offers up Gamera as the solution. But the Defense Army Commander reminds them that he is upside-down at the bottom of the ocean. The two scientists offer their bathyscaphe as a means to go check on his disposition. Sea World helicopters lower the bathyscaphe alongside Gamera. As they beam sonar waves toward him, the two kids appear behind their fathers. They had stowed away when no one was looking. As the strength of the sonar is strengthened, Zigra awakes. He cuts the bathyscaphe cables which drops deeper and begins to leak. Ishikawa indicates the bathyscaphe can surface. He has Wallace work to fix a short circuit in the control panel. Zigra grabs the bathyscaphe, dives into the Japan Deep, and deposits it at a depth of 12,300 meters. Water pours in through leaks that the high pressure and tumble have caused. Only one hour of air remains. An attempt to fix the surfacing apparatus leads to a sparky frying of the circuit boards. Zigra approaches the bathyscaphe. The lights are turned on to dazzle its eyes. Ishikawa recognizes that light may be a weak point. He points out that Gamera instinctively realized this when he brought Zigra to the surface. Zigra repeats his warning to surrender. He promises to save the bathyscaphe if they do so within the hour. The Defense Army Commander agrees to surrender to save the four occupants in the bathyscaphe. Zigra asks that the lights be turned off. Sugakawa is uneasy with the surrender, claiming that Zigra will use humans as food. Taking Sugakawa counsel into consideration, Ishikawa and Wallace turn the lights back on and increase the voltage. Zigra is repelled but sends a yellow ray at the bathyscaphe. This disrupts all communications. A fortuitous lightning storm in the area sends a bolt that strikes Gamera's foot that is sticking up above the water. His eyes open indicating that consciousness has returned. In the morning, Margie notes that Gamera is gone. She can no longer see his foot. His assistance will be too late because 8 hours have elapsed, far beyond the oxygen supply. Gamera sneaks up on the sleeping Zigra. He throws a rock at him before grabbing the bathyscaphe and heading for the surface. He drops the bathyscaphe on the beach and heads back to sea. The four bodies are removed from the bathyscaphe. Sugakawa explains that they did not suffocate. The yellow ray stopped all cell activities. They can be revived. The doctor calls for electric shock treatments, just as the lightning bolt revived Gamera. As the bathyscaphe victims are revived, Gamera re-engages Zigra in a battle. He raises him to the surface and drops him on the beach. He impales a huge rock on Zigar spear-like nose. Immobilized, Zigar is finished off by Gamera's fire breath. The kids run up to thank Gamera, just before he flies off into the skies.
Gamera vs. Zigra
Adventure,Family,Sci-Fi
Film Details
During the latter part of the 20th Century, Japan has established a research base on the moon. An unidentified spacecraft approaches. With a red beam, it blows up the base building and a rocket sitting on a launch.
With a green beam, it makes a moon jeep disappear. Dr. Wallace and Dr.
Ishikawa are scientists in the Marine Lab at Kamogawa Sea World. Ishikawa's sister is caring for Wallace's two daughters, Margie and Helen, as his wife is at the hospital anticipating the arrival of a new baby. The girls are difficult to wake.
Helen is a kindergartener. Ishikawa's little boy, Kenichi, is also in kindergarten and brushing his teeth. The dolphins at Sea World also need their teeth brushed.
The girls kiss a picture of their mother goodbye; the dolphins say goodbye to their audience. All three kids head for school promising to learn as well as the seals do. The seals show off their training in a race.
Helen and Ken are missing after school. Wallace and Ishikawa are taking water samples and discussing the rise in ocean pollution. Their radios report a magnitude 12 earthquake in Arabia that has claimed 30,000 victims.
They head to their boat for a break and are puzzled to find an empty thermos of juice and no sandwiches in the lunch box. Their suspicions cause them to lift the tarps mounded in the back of the boat. Hiding underneath are Helen and Ken.
Ken notices a strange craft descend from the sky and dive into the water. The two men and two children climb into the boat to check out the vicinity where the craft dove. Ken hears a noise that makes him search the sky.
He spots Gamera. Suddenly, the boat is hit with a green beam and the four passengers find themselves inside an alien spaceship. It's a fourth dimension ray with instant transfer power.
A woman tells them that this is the Zigra Star spaceship from Celestial Body Number 105. Zigra Planet is 480 light years distant. She demands in a radio broadcast that Earth's people surrender.
She will cause a magnitude 13 earthquake in the Tokyo area to prove their superior scientific technology. Wallace and Ishikawa tell her that her claims are impossible. She shows them parts of Tokyo in ruins.
The spacewoman explains their reason for arrival on Earth. They are an underwater society. Development has polluted their oceans, so they have been looking for a watery planet as a new home.
Earth, with 70% of its surface covered by water, is ideal. We will take over your seas before you pollute them. Ishikawa agrees to testify that her statements are true.
When Wallace calls her race insane, she looks into his eyes and snaps her fingers. His head droops as he loses consciousness. When Ishikawa confronts her, he suffers the same fate.
Ken tells Helen not to look at the spacewoman's eyes. They run over to one of the rotating structures and stop it. This freezes the woman.
They put their dads back in the boat and Ken sends them back to the ocean surface by passing his hand over the green control button. They try unsuccessfully to rouse their parents or start the boat's motor. The Zigra monster wakes the spacewoman with a yellow beam before instructing her to kill the two children who know too much.
She argues to just kill everyone, but Zigra warns her that people and land animals are needed for food. Back in the boat, the children are encouraged when they spot a ship. But a giant shark hits the ship and causes it to explode.
Then it heads towards them. It misses on the first pass. The children scream for help.
Gamera hears them and comes to the rescue. He picks the boat out of the water and carries it to an island. Helen and Ken go in search of someone to help.
They encounter a peculiarly dressed man. Ken thinks they have somehow gone back in time. The man reassures them that it is 1971.
He indicates they are on Niyemon Island, a location named after an ancestor who hid Lord Minamoto there 800 years ago. The children return to Kamogawa where the military presses them for information. Their answers are not very useful, arguing over whose mother is prettier than the Space Woman.
The two scientists, still in a comatose state, are taken for medical treatment. Their brainwaves are not human in nature. A call from United Nations Headquarters urges the Defense Army Commander to deploy jets to confront the alien presence.
Their intent is to drop depth charges in the vicinity of the submerged spacecraft. Zigar is relentless in shooting down the entire air fleet. The woman comes ashore to kill the two children.
In pursuit of them, she has to hypnotize three girls who were recreating at the beach. She borrows one of the swim suits as a disguise. Authorities have ordered an evacuation of Kamogawa.
Because normal business is interrupted, the Sea World hotel manager and the Sea World Trainer argue over who gets the few fish that are available. The trainer wins. The woman stops his SUV for a ride to Sea World, confirming her targets are there.
At Sea World, the Space Woman realizes her swimming suit is unacceptable attire. She stops a woman who is entering, hypnotizes her, and dons her clothing. She zaps a guard who confronts her in the hall.
She eavesdrops on a conference with the military, scientists and doctors. They discuss perhaps using a hydrogen bomb. Suddenly, a soldier walks in leading the zapped guard.
Perhaps there is a Zigra soldier at Sea World. The Space Woman sneaks into the living quarters where Ken and Helen are watching newscasts of all the damage in Tokyo. She bumps into an object that warns the children.
They flee and she gives chase. As they run by a group of reporters, one of them recognizes her as Miss Sugawara. She turns and zaps them all.
Having lost the children, she enters the sky tower elevator. The kids quickly close the door and start the compartment on its upward trip, effectively imprisoning her for the time being. Ken cries out for help from Gamera.
He hears the plea and responds by diving into the sea after the Zigra Ship. An underwater fight ensues in which Gamera destroys the ship with fire blasts and heavy rocks. The Zigra monster is now on its own as a huge, armored shark.
Gamera grabs it and flies it to the beach where the battle continues. After three blasts of the yellow beam, Gamera topples into the sea in a comatose condition. Zigra jumps back in the ocean and warns all Earth residents that resistance is useless.
He will rule the seas. The Sea World trainer she's the children being pursue by the Space Woman. He thinks they are avoiding an evacuation guide.
He learns this is not the case when he talks to Ken's mother who is with the doctors and the two comatose scientists. He hears they are blind but do not bump into objects when walking. This leads him to show videos of a blind dolphin who is in a similar situation.
The doctor suddenly speculates that high frequency sound waves may be how Zigra communicates with those under hypnosis. He screeches into a military radio which causes the two scientists to grab their heads and writhe on the floor. Soon, they have regained consciousness.
Everyone rushes outside to find the kids who were being chased. They see the Space Woman dragging them against their wills. Ishikawa grabs the radio transceiver and makes noises into it.
The Space Woman collapses onto the ground. When everyone approaches, she is confused as to why she is here rather than on the moon. The last she remembers is driving a moon jeep toward a crater.
Ishikawa and Wallace agree that Zigra brainwashed her to do his bidding. She is the Miss Sugakawa that the reporter recognized. The authorities discuss how to defeat Zigra.
Ken offers up Gamera as the solution. But the Defense Army Commander reminds them that he is upside-down at the bottom of the ocean. The two scientists offer their bathyscaphe as a means to go check on his disposition.
Sea World helicopters lower the bathyscaphe alongside Gamera. As they beam sonar waves toward him, the two kids appear behind their fathers. They had stowed away when no one was looking.
As the strength of the sonar is strengthened, Zigra awakes. He cuts the bathyscaphe cables which drops deeper and begins to leak. Ishikawa indicates the bathyscaphe can surface.
He has Wallace work to fix a short circuit in the control panel. Zigra grabs the bathyscaphe, dives into the Japan Deep, and deposits it at a depth of 12,300 meters. Water pours in through leaks that the high pressure and tumble have caused.
Only one hour of air remains. An attempt to fix the surfacing apparatus leads to a sparky frying of the circuit boards. Zigra approaches the bathyscaphe.
The lights are turned on to dazzle its eyes. Ishikawa recognizes that light may be a weak point. He points out that Gamera instinctively realized this when he brought Zigra to the surface.
Zigra repeats his warning to surrender. He promises to save the bathyscaphe if they do so within the hour. The Defense Army Commander agrees to surrender to save the four occupants in the bathyscaphe.
Zigra asks that the lights be turned off. Sugakawa is uneasy with the surrender, claiming that Zigra will use humans as food. Taking Sugakawa counsel into consideration, Ishikawa and Wallace turn the lights back on and increase the voltage.
Zigra is repelled but sends a yellow ray at the bathyscaphe. This disrupts all communications. A fortuitous lightning storm in the area sends a bolt that strikes Gamera's foot that is sticking up above the water.
His eyes open indicating that consciousness has returned. In the morning, Margie notes that Gamera is gone. She can no longer see his foot.
His assistance will be too late because 8 hours have elapsed, far beyond the oxygen supply. Gamera sneaks up on the sleeping Zigra. He throws a rock at him before grabbing the bathyscaphe and heading for the surface.
He drops the bathyscaphe on the beach and heads back to sea. The four bodies are removed from the bathyscaphe. Sugakawa explains that they did not suffocate.
The yellow ray stopped all cell activities. They can be revived. The doctor calls for electric shock treatments, just as the lightning bolt revived Gamera.
As the bathyscaphe victims are revived, Gamera re-engages Zigra in a battle. He raises him to the surface and drops him on the beach. He impales a huge rock on Zigar spear-like nose.
Immobilized, Zigar is finished off by Gamera's fire breath. The kids run up to thank Gamera, just before he flies off into the skies..