Up From The Depths Reviews | Space Amoeba (1970)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- A shapeless alien entity hitches a ride to earth, transforming the native life of the remote Sergio Island into massive monsters.
Released: April 17, 1966
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka and Fumio Tanaka
Director: Ishiro Honda
Screenplay: Ei Ogawa
Music: Akira Ifukube
Special Effects: Sadamasa Arikawa
Starring:
Akira Kubo as Taro Kudo
Atsuko Takahashi as Ayako Hoshino
Yukiko Kobayashi as Saki
Kenji Sahara as Makoto Obata
Yoshio Tsuchiya as Dr. Kyouichi Miya
Yu Fujiki as the promotion division manager
Noritake Saito as Rico
Chotaro Togin as Engineer Yokoyama
Wataru Omae as Sakura
Gezora and Gaime portrayed by Haruo Nakajima, Kamoebas portrayed by Haruyoshi Nakamura
#SpaceAmoeba #YogMonsterFromSpace
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I actually love this movie. A must see for sure.
I grew up in a very small town & we were lucky enough to have our own theater. It was billed as *_"Yog Monster from Space."_* I saw this on a Saturday Afternoon Matinee . Me and all the neighborhood kids counted our change, walked to the theater & had an absolute blast! So much that we did the same thing a week later. I still love this film & it will always be one of my favorites. Great review!!
Did you know that the movie rampage (2018) shares very similar plot elements to this movie? Both movies have Kaiju created outta normal animals mutated from space mutagens, and go on a rampage together.
Rampage was awesome
Well rampage was based off an arcade game of the same name
@@sirfijoe450 In the game wasn't it a soda which created the monsters?
@@sharpfoon446 Total Destruction
Well, not TOGETHER since ganimas 2 and kamebas are the only monsters that are shown together.
This was a fun movie, no masterpiece, not perfect, but fun and that’s good enough for me.
Definitely underrated! I honestly wish that we could have saw all 3 kaijus fight at once though. It would have been cool to see more of Kemoba the turtle in Tokyo s.o.s too
This movie is an underrated masterpiece. The kaiju action is amazing.
Gezora: Cuttlefish
Kamoebas: Sea Turtle
Ganimes: Stone Crab
I would love to see these monsters in the monsterverse
@@animezilla4486 +1
Kamoebas has such a great design
Obviously these names derive from Japanese nouns "geso" (referring to "a bunch of tentacles of squid or cuttlefish" cooked to enjoy with beer or sake); "kame" ("turtle"); and "kani" ("crab")
Animezilla 44 Especially Gezora. He’d fit right in.
The Beatles came to an end in 1970, and so did the classic Showa series (as we know it). 50 years ago can be marked as the end of eras.
Finally got to watch this a couple weeks ago on Amazon Prime. It's awesome that it's streaming. It would be nice to see more Toho studio films available
Gezora has one of my favorite designs out of all Toho’s lineup.
I REMEMBER this!
I saw this as a kid and liked it alot. My dad had all the toho films imported back in the day.
My absolute favorite Toho film. This movie is amazing.
Gezora is adorable!
He’s Gezorable! 😋
love your videos, never stop. They always make my day.
To me the most impressive thing about this movie was the cinematography. It had a lot of interesting camera angles and clever lighting, I was often reminded of Fritz Lang's shooting style.
One of Toho's most watchable films from the classic era.
This one was a Saturday night staple on "Shock Theatre" out of Battle Creek! Takes me back to my childhood with a bowl of popcorn and a sleeping bag on the living room floor.
For me, way back, it was Creature Double Feature on Saturday mornings/afternoon.
Always liked this one; along with "Frankenstein Conquers the World", it was, as this review says, more down-to-earth than most Japanese giant monster flicks. Although its elements were derivative, this particular combination and handling was kinda different for a kaiju movie.
Just saw it again a week or so ago. Love this film.
Thank you for showing this last time i saw this movie was in 77
kyndred 1971 cool saw this film on the daily motion website in 2010 with English subtitles not sure if it’s on the site though😎
Can we all agree that Tokyo Shock’s dvd has some amazing video quality. It’s damn near blu-ray quality in my opinion.
There's a truly inexplicable moment in the English dub where they call the turtle a 'stegosaur bat'
Good ol English dubs, you never fail to mispronounce names and make sure that the audience feels as uncomfortable and un-immersed as possible.
At least they ramp up the unironic enjoyment which Is my favorite part of old monster movies.
When there was talk of a follow-up to GMK: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, I had hopes that the monsters of Space Amoeba would get dusted off for a seafood-platter sequel. Alas, not only did the sequel never happen, Kamoebas' mutilated corpse is given a cameo in Tokyo SOS.
Space Amoeba's okay, but that subplot about the native girl desperate to wed Rico while he's in shock after one of the monsters' attacks and incapable of making decisions for himself is absolutely squicky.
Squicky? Is that even a word?
Edit: apparently it is lol
@ScreamingScallop
Then you will be immensely pleased by the just-released in Japan “Monster Seafood Wars” 🦑 🦀 🐙 And no, I kid you not 😆 wikizilla.org/wiki/Monster_Seafood_Wars
ALWAYS loved THIS one!! Saw the first import version, YOG, MONSTER FROM SPACE, in U.S. theaters as a kid growing up in the 70's when I was beginning to really understand how these movies were made. Gezorah fascinated me SO much back then because, as a boy watching this in a theater, I kept wondering HOW in the hell they got somebody inside that 'suit-thing'!! Gezorah became a favorite kaiju of mine! By the way, in Japan, the filmakers later made comments about THIS one NOT quite living up to the Toho 'fright' standards of the time among Japanese audiences because these big 'dangerous' monsters were too much like their similar species' that are also food in Japan! So Japanese audiences, they say, got hungry watching THESE kaiju on the big screen, if nothing else!
Thoroughly enjoyed your commentary and review of this film. Keen to hunt it down and give it a watch. Thank you.
It's on Amazon Prime Video if anyone wants to catch it there.
this movie reminds me of my trip to the south Pacific
Just a thought... if the probe was designed to be unmanned, why does it have space for two pilots and evident control panels?
It was either originally planned to be a manned mission or was planned to be the first stage of an eventually manned mission. That'd be my guess.
You are really worried about that? :-)
Plot convenience
How else was the Space Amoeba going to sit in the spacecraft, much less pilot it back to Earth?
I hope you’re doing well, and come back some day, I’m late to your reviews but i find them all super informative, interesting and fun!
All of the kaiju in this film are heavily underrated, with Ganimes being the most prejudiced. At least Kamoebas showed up in Tokyo SOS and Gezora got a lot of comic attention, but Ganimes never got the love that (I think) he deserved.
Oh, you were talking about the film? Uhh....I guess it's alright.
I heard Ebirah paid off Ganime’s booking agent to keep him from getting any more gigs 😄
@@Gappasaurus he's just trying to hide the fact that he's actually a giant shrimp. Eliminating the competition seems to be Ebirah's best strategy.
@Frizzurd there is one scene in GvsE where Ebirah's mouthparts are shown (where he eats a bunch of natives) and it's pretty creepy. However, Ganimes is definitely much gnarlier and creepier with his mouthparts. He really is an improvement over Ebirah.
Since that's the last of the Showa era Toho kaiju movies (I think) I have a suggestion.
Gorgo and Gappa.
Both movies are pretty much the same plot. Doing a Gorgo review, then a Gappa review, and then a video comparing and contrasting the two films would be awesome!
You continue to be my favorite channel. Thank you.
Technically there’s still Human Snow Beast (aka Half-Human) but not sure it qualifies as it’s never gotten a home video release, even in Japan ☹️ But also Daigoro vs Goliath and Orochi the Eight-Headed Dragon 🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲 Plus there’s additional “sci-fi movies that also have giant monsters” like Gorath and Latitude Zero. And lots of human-sized-monster Toho films too 🤔
But a comparison of Gorgo and Gappa would be cool too, plus maybe mention how Mothra 1961 has nearly the same plot 😅
You are a underrated movie reviewer
Why this didn't win the Best Picture Oscar I'll never know.
Well it _did_ win “Best Picture” for the Oscar Meyer.
As bad as it is Gezora is simply one of my favorite kaiju. It helps that I love cephalpods as a whole.
Can you look at The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms🦎🌊
I always referred to Space Amoeba as the “Last Hurrah of the Toho Regulars.” Not only are the main cast Toho actors we’ve seen multiple times during the Showa Era, but so are minor characters such Sachio Sakai (the editor) and Yū Fujiki (the promotional manager, with bow-tie), who go back to respectively Godzilla (1954) and King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962). Perhaps it’s just me, but it’s almost sad to see these actors in this okay but average film, when Toho was LONG past the Glory Days.
I saw Yog, monster from Space at a drive-in theater in the early '70s. Always loved it.
Thank you for calling it a classic. :-)
I remember watching this over and over again when I was in preschool! Good times
The Gezora suit is one of the reasons I love this one. It's very silly but the fluidity makes it work.
It's very derivative film wise but I like seeing actors I recognize from other films
I was about 11 or 12 first time I saw this. I'd been a Godzilla/Kaiju fan since the age of 6, collected all sorts of monster magazines back in the day. I knew enough about TOHO films at that point to recognize so many of the regular TOHO actors who'd appeared in the Godzilla films over the years, so I'd always enjoyed this film as a decent TOHO venture. Only years later did I realize that this was the last time we'd see most of these core TOHO actors, the director and the music composer all together in one feature. It carries a special place in my heart fr these reasons. Fun film, and loved Kenji Sahara in the slimy role of Obadah.
These creatures deserve a reboot into the Monsterverse
Gezora appeared in Godzilla for the NES.
This movie would've vastly benefitted from having Jun Fukuda & Masaru Sato working on it.
They'd do wonders on this film. An island setting, combined with strangely designed monsters and a so-so plot? That's practically a dream for them.
The Kaijuu movies of the Showa era surely were special. As if there was no real quality control whatsoever, and just went like "What could be possible be fun to watch?"
The Heisei era on the other hand...
Love your passion for the genre.
Awesome review! hope that you add other minor but important hitters like "the human vapor", “half human" , “the H-man” “Goke”
“Terror beneath the sea” , “latitude zero” , “The green slime” and "the secret of telegian"
Nice, can't wait to see your reviews of non Toho Kaiju movies.
Love your channel
I remember this movie, espdcially of its line: *Obasa!*
I Had The Pleasure Of Watching This Movie On The Original Channel 48 In Philadelphia.
Anyone from Boston remember "Creature Double Feature" ?
The main monster looks Sigmund Ooz (From Sigmund and the Sea Monsters)
Surprised you still haven’t done the Daimajin trilogy. Either way, I’m definitely curious about the next Kaiju movies you do
Stay tuned ;)
I thought there was only 2 made??
@@UpFromTheDepths88 foreshadowing intensifies
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Wow I was subbed when you only had 50 subs keep up the good work
Thank u so much! I was just asking about this film, which was released my birth year, but non Godzilla. I'm def going to have to order it!
I watched Japanese monster movies to death as a kid, but for some reason, Gezora freaked me the f--- out.
First boss in the nes godzilla game
Great review! I love this film and kamoebas is my 4th favorite kaiju
I remember. Damn do I remember.
This looks cool. Is this film on DVD?
Razor Shark it is but it’s in Japanese 👍
There is an English dub
The origin of the name "Gezora" is "Geso",a word used in a sushi restaurant that means squid arms or tentacles.
That Turtle thing, Kamobas, I guess looks pretty decent, IMO.
Haven’t heard of it before, thanks for the review. Lots to catch up in Kaiju territory.
He gets a cameo at the beginning of Tokyo SOS... not a very lively performance though 😅
Never heard of this one.....Thanks for posting, I'll go search for it.
Hey this is just an editorial question, but how do you use movie footage for your videos? Do you get it from the dvd’s/blueray’s or is there an app that you use to download videos? I just want to find a reliable way to use them in my videos without having to worry about viruses
This one weirded me out as a kid but I enjoyed it anyway.
So, not Gamera vs. not Ebirah vs.not Dogora. Hm.
Funnily enough, the lobster monster makes the same scream as Ebirah.
The Electric Kool-Aide Acid Test of kaiju films.
Love your work man, keep it up
It was a great time.
Lovlely, i enjoy this little Brother of the Godzilla Movies. And let's be honest, for a man in suit Gezora looks realy good.
@@tylergarrett7572 Nice to know.
A truly interesting movie.
I saw this on Netflix
Last week 🖖
Highly recommend
Wait its on Netflix?
Hey @upfromthedepths are you planning to do a review of the Daimajin trilogy? 😃
Stay tuned ;)
Never seen this one or heard of it. Will have to find it and watch.
Great video bro
Can you review the Daimajin trilogy?
Will you be doing 1950's American monster movies in the near future?
Can you look at The Giant Behemoth⚡🐉
I just got through watching this. I enjoyed it in a weird sort of way. It’s the perfect movie to watch on a cold night laying on the couch. Lol anyway Akira Kubo is always great in whatever role Toho has him play.
Love your reviews! ❤️👏🖖🏻
Up from the death's,30 stories high,breathing fire,his head is in the sky,Godzilla,Godzilla,Godzilla,and Godzuki...
........Godzilla!!!!!!!!
Another cool Toho film to watch...
Do Gorath next.
I can't think of any other Showa Toho kaiju movie, so I guess it's basically confirmed at this point. Although Gorath isn't really a kaiju film.
There’s still Human Snow Beast (aka Half-Human) but not sure it qualifies as it’s never gotten a home video release, even in Japan ☹️ But also Daigoro vs Goliath and Orochi the Eight-Headed Dragon. Plus there’s additional “sci-fi & fantasy movies that also have giant monsters” besides Gorath, like Latitude Zero and The Three Treasures. And lots of human-sized-monster Toho films too 🤔
You mentioned that the monsters were all copies of others. I'm assuming you mean Gamera for the turtle, Ebirah for the crab - but what do you consider Gezora to be derivative of? The unnamed octopus from Kong vs Godzilla, or something else?
The octopus appeared in Frankenstein vs Baragon too, so it may have had enough notoriety to be the template 🤔
This film is really an end of an era
Never seen this one, Definitely need to check this one out. Great Review as always.
Can you take a look at American monster movies mainly ones like THEM!, The Monster that Challenged the World, and 20 Million Miles to Earth
Those are 3 great old American movies. Loved all 3, with "Them" probably being the best. "The Monster that Challenged the World" is also a favorite of mine. I still get that one confused with "The Monster that Conquered the World", with the squatty little monster in the cave. I recall Peter Graves and the not so famous, Lee Van Cleef, before he played the BAD man in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I must have seen just about every 50's science fiction and creature mutated from the bomb movie that ever made it to the screen. At times, I even watch many of the Corman flicks. From "Creature from the Haunted Sea" to "Beast from Haunted Cave", and everything in between. At any rate, the 3 you mentioned were awesome, plus they were only better when the folks from, Mystery Science Theater 3k hosted them.I must admit that "Manos, the Hands of Fate" was on the lower end. Loved the creature from the crack in the Salton Sea floor, which turned into, "The Creature that Challenged the World". It also started the underrated, Tim Holt from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", which is in top 10 all time favorite movies. There are just so many, like "Mesa of Lost Women" which are almost so crummy that they are good. "Frankenstein meets the Space Monster" along with anything that has to do with genetic experiments gone awry, is simply awesome. By the way, you gotta love, "20 million miles to Earth", but there are so many, as in "The Lost World" from the silent age, plus "Nosferatu in the same era, but those don't even scratch the surface of the fantastic choices we have. Great stuff, indeed...
David Dooley loved the Godzilla movies👍
"A Giant Lobster figh a Giant Turtle"
Sounds like Gamera 2: Assault of the Legion (1996)
Can you review gappa the triphibian monster and yongary monster form the deep?
You should do a review for Gappa. Another underrated giant monster movie
I really like this movie, not the best, but pretty good. Can’t go wrong with crabs, cuttlefish, and a turtle mutated by a alien single cell organism.
Love this movie 😊
Can you look at Attack Of The Crab Monsters🦀
Underrated movie
Good movie
it looks like the inspiration for squidward from spongebob squarpants
I actually have this movie 📼. Titled Yog,Monster from space. Also I just watched it the other day. I love it. 🐾🐺🐾🐺
Could you review The H Man from 1958 next?
+1
H-Man, Human Vapor, and Telegian plz! 😁
can you review a movie called The Human vapor
4:19 And what if i wanted to see a giant lobster fight a giant turtle... while surrounded by BATS?! and on a VOLCANO?! 🤨
[*whisper-whisper*]
Oh... really? Well ok then! 😁