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I’m just going to say three things 1). In defense of the tag line, I think they were trying to be meta; at the time Death Kappa came out Toho had put Godzilla on a ten year hiatus, and the latest King Kong movie ended with the ape's death. 2). In regards to the general shortcomings of the movie; the Nikkatsu Corporation which produced the film has never had a good track record with Kaiju films, at this point the only other movie in that genre it had to its name at the time was Gappa: The Triphibian Monster (which was only made after four other movies were canceled). 3). In regards to the concepts; they’re good, just underutilized, it’s kind of like if Robert Louis Stevenson published his first draft of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde while he was still high on meth, the premise is good it just lacks polish. P.S. I can safely say that if the Asylum did make this movie it would be objectively worse: Death Kappa and Hangyolas would just show up without any explanation, they’d kill ungodly numbers of people while the main characters kick rocks for an hour and thirty minutes, leading up to an lackluster climax where the to monsters fight each other with all the excitement of two flatworms having sex, only for Hangyolas to die after Death Kappa delivers a solid punch and then the military takes Death Kappa out with missiles that they could have used an hour ago and saved everyone some trouble.
Playing Daigoro vs Goliath, Gamera Super Monster, Mothra 2, Yonggary 2001, and then finally this would be like going down The Rabbit Hole of Kaiju Hell
I only watched Death Kappa once. I think that's all I need to remember that it was a pretty weird movie. Seriously, my mother and I watched it and it was a pretty odd time.
0:49 Kappa: KING KONG IS DEAD AND GODZILLA RETIRED😈 Godzilla:WTF!😡 King Kong:WTF!😡 *Godzilla and King Kong go to Kappa Godzilla & King Kong: *WE HEARD YOU WERE TALKING SHIT Kappa: look you guys i-it was just a joke I promise! Godzilla & King Kong: HOW ABOUT THIS FOR A JOKE YOU SUCKY KNOCKOFF! 1 hour of pain for Kappa later Kappa was killed brutally in front of the creators of Death Kappa Godzilla & King Kong: we should team up more often Then Godzilla and King Kong became partners in crime... Killing knockoffs that is
I saw it years ago, out of curiosity on what the "Tokyo Shock" brand had to offer and I didn't even know the Creator of Evangelion made a cameo, but I thought it was just plain weird. You can at some level sympathize with the main female lead as her dream Idol Career never lead anywhere, but the crazy scientist lady with her relative's corpse in a wheelchair gave off some Norman Bates-like Vibes.
One slight correction on something, the Kappa was the one who killed the teens, it was actually the fish people who did that. That’s the only defense I’m giving to this movie so take what you can get Death Kappa
I'd like to know how the nuke that could "destroy all of Japan" not only *didn't* destroy Japan (or even the city it was in) but didn't even kill the person standing right next to it when it went off. Death Kappa was only 80 minutes long but I still managed to fall asleep halfway through.
I could _never_ forget this movie. When I saw trailers for it, the tagline _immediately_ irritated me. (Though the poster is missing the "Gamera Who?" portion.) Mainly because of the fact that, it was still in the 10 year period where Godzilla _was_ retired after 2004, so it honestly felt crass of these filmmakers to try and _muscle-in_ on the competition during Godzilla's absence. (That, and I was also a kid at the time.) But still, I knew something was _off_ about the movie just from watching the trailers. Tokusatsu films have a method to making the monsters _feel_ gigantic in how the footage is filmed and edited. For example, most if not all Godzilla movies have the action scenes slowed down to some degree, to make the monsters feel _heavier;_ like they have a great deal of weight to throw around. Seeing how fast the Kappa was moving in the trailers just looked _wrong_ by comparison. Also, those critiques "praising" the film from back in the day were probably bought and paid-for.
Hey at least The asylum knows its bad lol. But I do remember seeing this film and just wondering how this was supposed to be joke done out of love for Old Toku
Its a prime example of why so many parody films don't work while others do: you have to love something to properly make fun of it. It's why mel brooks films worked so well because, in his own words 'I never made fun of something I didn't genuinely love'. Blazing saddles worked because he loved westerns, Robin hood: men in tights worked because one of his favorite movies of all time was the Errol Flynn film. When you don't love something and want to make fun of it, your jokes are the most obvious basic observations possible that anyone could make.
I subscribe to the school of thought that has it that every creative work is a reflection of the mindset(s) and emotions that went into its creation; love, hate, indifference, etc. Death Kappa, despite what the creators may claim, is clearly a product of some combination of apathy and contempt, and is a prime example of the "we made a bad film ON PURPOSE" cop-out simply doesn't work; as another commenter pointed out, a parody not made out of love simply resorts to basic observations, and I have always found something hypocritical in people who make the schtick of "aren't kaiju movies cheap and cheesy and stupid and the people who like them gullible idiots" by purposefully making a cheap, cheesy, stupid kaiju movie that ultimately contributes to cheapening the genre and giving it a bad name. That Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi, and others actually famous in the kaiju scene are involved in this (must have been slumming it in that span between Godzilla Final Wars and Pacific Rim) only contributes to the sense of poor taste I get from this movie.
Connections, maybe. Haraguchi directed Mikadroid, while Higuchi directed the special effects, while Anno and Higuchi were very close friends and business partners.
@@Sleppstrrr Really, Ghidorah's worst film is Godzilla vs. Gigan, but that one isn't really an awful film. And Mothra had a pretty bad trilogy of films in the late 90's.
Never heard of Death Kappa? Well, I'm sorry to inform you of its existence.
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I’m just going to say three things 1). In defense of the tag line, I think they were trying to be meta; at the time Death Kappa came out Toho had put Godzilla on a ten year hiatus, and the latest King Kong movie ended with the ape's death. 2). In regards to the general shortcomings of the movie; the Nikkatsu Corporation which produced the film has never had a good track record with Kaiju films, at this point the only other movie in that genre it had to its name at the time was Gappa: The Triphibian Monster (which was only made after four other movies were canceled). 3). In regards to the concepts; they’re good, just underutilized, it’s kind of like if Robert Louis Stevenson published his first draft of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde while he was still high on meth, the premise is good it just lacks polish.
P.S. I can safely say that if the Asylum did make this movie it would be objectively worse: Death Kappa and Hangyolas would just show up without any explanation, they’d kill ungodly numbers of people while the main characters kick rocks for an hour and thirty minutes, leading up to an lackluster climax where the to monsters fight each other with all the excitement of two flatworms having sex, only for Hangyolas to die after Death Kappa delivers a solid punch and then the military takes Death Kappa out with missiles that they could have used an hour ago and saved everyone some trouble.
Playing Daigoro vs Goliath, Gamera Super Monster, Mothra 2, Yonggary 2001, and then finally this would be like going down The Rabbit Hole of Kaiju Hell
Dr_Mafoony you, my friend, made my evening program.
Mothra 2? Woah, woah, hold on...
Add cozzilla into the mix and it's the perfect evening program too. that's all ;)
Yea
Don't forget All Monsters Attack.
I'm so sorry you watched this thing lol
At least I was able to make a video about it, so things didn't get too bad in the end 👍🏻Still sucks tho
I only watched Death Kappa once. I think that's all I need to remember that it was a pretty weird movie. Seriously, my mother and I watched it and it was a pretty odd time.
1:38 That reporter was played by Shinji Higuchi.
Looks awesome. I’m definitely going to see it. Enjoyed the review though
0:49 Kappa: KING KONG IS DEAD AND GODZILLA RETIRED😈
Godzilla:WTF!😡
King Kong:WTF!😡
*Godzilla and King Kong go to Kappa
Godzilla & King Kong: *WE HEARD YOU WERE TALKING SHIT
Kappa: look you guys i-it was just a joke I promise!
Godzilla & King Kong: HOW ABOUT THIS FOR A JOKE YOU SUCKY KNOCKOFF!
1 hour of pain for Kappa later
Kappa was killed brutally in front of the creators of Death Kappa
Godzilla & King Kong: we should team up more often
Then Godzilla and King Kong became partners in crime...
Killing knockoffs that is
I saw it years ago, out of curiosity on what the "Tokyo Shock" brand had to offer and I didn't even know the Creator of Evangelion made a cameo, but I thought it was just plain weird. You can at some level sympathize with the main female lead as her dream Idol Career never lead anywhere, but the crazy scientist lady with her relative's corpse in a wheelchair gave off some Norman Bates-like Vibes.
1:29 *megalovania starts playing*
0:33
*Death Krappa*
1:20 BEING AWESOME! Next question.
One slight correction on something, the Kappa was the one who killed the teens, it was actually the fish people who did that. That’s the only defense I’m giving to this movie so take what you can get Death Kappa
I'd like to know how the nuke that could "destroy all of Japan" not only *didn't* destroy Japan (or even the city it was in) but didn't even kill the person standing right next to it when it went off.
Death Kappa was only 80 minutes long but I still managed to fall asleep halfway through.
I could _never_ forget this movie. When I saw trailers for it, the tagline _immediately_ irritated me. (Though the poster is missing the "Gamera Who?" portion.) Mainly because of the fact that, it was still in the 10 year period where Godzilla _was_ retired after 2004, so it honestly felt crass of these filmmakers to try and _muscle-in_ on the competition during Godzilla's absence. (That, and I was also a kid at the time.)
But still, I knew something was _off_ about the movie just from watching the trailers. Tokusatsu films have a method to making the monsters _feel_ gigantic in how the footage is filmed and edited. For example, most if not all Godzilla movies have the action scenes slowed down to some degree, to make the monsters feel _heavier;_ like they have a great deal of weight to throw around. Seeing how fast the Kappa was moving in the trailers just looked _wrong_ by comparison.
Also, those critiques "praising" the film from back in the day were probably bought and paid-for.
Hey at least The asylum knows its bad lol.
But I do remember seeing this film and just wondering how this was supposed to be joke done out of love for Old Toku
This movie makes Rebirth of mothra 2 , Godzillas revenge , and Godzilla the planet eater looks like the original Godzilla
I used to own a copy of Death Kappa then I actually lost it for probably for good reason sense I didn't seen it.
Its a prime example of why so many parody films don't work while others do: you have to love something to properly make fun of it.
It's why mel brooks films worked so well because, in his own words 'I never made fun of something I didn't genuinely love'. Blazing saddles worked because he loved westerns, Robin hood: men in tights worked because one of his favorite movies of all time was the Errol Flynn film.
When you don't love something and want to make fun of it, your jokes are the most obvious basic observations possible that anyone could make.
I subscribe to the school of thought that has it that every creative work is a reflection of the mindset(s) and emotions that went into its creation; love, hate, indifference, etc. Death Kappa, despite what the creators may claim, is clearly a product of some combination of apathy and contempt, and is a prime example of the "we made a bad film ON PURPOSE" cop-out simply doesn't work; as another commenter pointed out, a parody not made out of love simply resorts to basic observations, and I have always found something hypocritical in people who make the schtick of "aren't kaiju movies cheap and cheesy and stupid and the people who like them gullible idiots" by purposefully making a cheap, cheesy, stupid kaiju movie that ultimately contributes to cheapening the genre and giving it a bad name. That Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi, and others actually famous in the kaiju scene are involved in this (must have been slumming it in that span between Godzilla Final Wars and Pacific Rim) only contributes to the sense of poor taste I get from this movie.
King Kong is Dead? Which Kong, 1933 or anything in between?
Glad I've never seen this one
2:58 the guy in sunglasses looks like Japanese John wick
The Effects Scenes are amazing!
This movie makes Godzilla's Revenge look like The Shawshank Redemption!
Its like someone put every bad Kaiju cliche in a blender and shat on it
What's your opinion of big man Japan?
Still haven't seen it yet :(
3:54 When a giant monster movie takes a jab at Godzilla, you know it’s a red flag.
Death Kappa
And you said Yonggary was the worst Kaiju movie ever😂😂😂😂
I still stay true to that
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Godzilla vs death kappa
3:01 that cgi killed me 3:01
Just watching this is pissing me off I hate this film Godzilla needs to beam it to hell
Anno is the best thing about it.
How did they got him?
Connections, maybe. Haraguchi directed Mikadroid, while Higuchi directed the special effects, while Anno and Higuchi were very close friends and business partners.
TitanGoji! Good answer. Anno can be a master of cameos. He was in Sinking of Japan too.
@@evashogoki8703 1973 or 2006?
TitanGoji! 2006, no way Anno was in Tokyo around 1973 to be an extra, haha.
@@evashogoki8703 Ah, alright. Just wanted to make sure, because I've only seen the original Sinking of Japan
This movie is just as bad as any thing from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer!
Godzilla is not retired death kappa is retired Death kappa is gay Godzilla is pro!!! Death kappa is stoopid movie do godzilla vs death kappa
The city models are ok
Hideaki Anno still thinks its Ikari Gendo
But isn't the movie supposed to be bad? Just asking.
Yes. But there's a difference between making a good bad movie (like Monster X Strikes Back), and a terrible bad movie (like any Asylum movie ever).
Haven't seen "Kaiju Mono" yet have you?
I have not
@@TitanGoji Only if you need an episode my friend.
This puts Godzilla vs hedorah to shame
death *K R A P P A* xDD
is gamera a bad Kaiju ??
No. He's only had a few bad films.
@@TitanGoji Oh....... How about king ghidorah ? and Mothra ?
@@Sleppstrrr Really, Ghidorah's worst film is Godzilla vs. Gigan, but that one isn't really an awful film. And Mothra had a pretty bad trilogy of films in the late 90's.
Death kappa sucks death kappa is a movie for kids
No child should ever watch it.
Make an animation titangoji
Can't. Not talented enough.