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Summary: And the wicked will quake with fear...
Review: Like Wagner's "Complete Ring Cycle," one truly needs to view "The Complete Daimajin" to gain a full appreciation of the work. Here, finally, the epic saga is together in a fabulous DVD set.In what is now a more common practice, all three "Daimajin" movies were made at the same time but were released a year apart. The three stories are not related to each other, except for the mighty Daimajin itself. Always on the side of right, always waiting till the last minute to awaken and seek revenge, Daimajin brings giant stony justice on those who would wrong the innocent. This series is indeed the gem of the kaiju genre, providing both a good story and quality acting, along with a giant man in a rubber suit destroying things. The special effects are quite good. Actually, everything about this series is quite good. Fans of Japanese Samurai films or monster films cannot go wrong with this set.
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Summary: And the wicked will quake with fear...
Review: Like Wagner's "Complete Ring Cycle," one truly needs to view "The Complete Daimajin" to gain a full appreciation of the work. Here, finally, the epic saga is together in a fabulous DVD set. In what is now a more common practice, all three "Daimajin" movies were made at the same time but were released a year apart. The three stories are not related to each other, except for the mighty Daimajin itself. Always on the side of right, always waiting till the last minute to awaken and seek revenge, Daimajin brings giant stony justice on those who would wrong the innocent. This series is indeed the gem of the kaiju genre, providing both a good story and quality acting, along with a giant man in a rubber suit destroying things. The special effects are quite good. Actually, everything about this series is quite good. Fans of Japanese Samurai films or monster films cannot go wrong with this set.
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Summary: ...But only TWO STARS for the DVD
Review: The Daimajin trilogy is the most unusual kaiju (giant monster) series, and one of the finest. Combining samurai period-drama with some of the most dramatically (and beautifully) photographed monster rampages ever, they should satisfy lovers of both Japanese historical drama and men-in-rubber suit flicks. An added plus are splendid scores by Akira Ifukube, composer of the best "Godzilla" scores. Unfortunately, as with their presentation of the Rurouni Kenshin movie and many other titles, ADV Films still seems to be unfamiliar with widescreen TVs and anamorphic DVDs. If you own a widescreen TV, you are ... by this non-anamorphic presentation, which renders the subtitles unreadable. There are superb anamorphic DVDs of all three "Daimajin" films available in Japan from Daiei Video, with made from considerably better films elements than these. Apparently ADV couldn't go to the trouble of acquiring them for this release. Boo, hiss!
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Summary: Box listed as Japanese with English Subtitles
Review: There are no English subtitles to any of the discs. I have tried everything to get subtitlbes to work. The cinamatography is excellent but unless you are fluent in Japanese it is pretty worthless. I am sending this back for a refund.
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Summary: A Japanese Monster movie with plot and acting...
Review: These movies bring back memories. As others have stated, this is not your basic monster movie from Japan. The plot while not really complex, is good enough to keep your attention, and the acting is pretty good. The photography and soundtrack are stunning. This is also an excellent transfer to DVD, with a sharp picture, easy to read subtitles, and wonderfull sound. While I'm only moderately fond of the 2nd and 3rd movie, the first is well worth the price of admission.
Highly recomended!
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Summary: Fear and Honor the God!
Review: This set is just too good. Subbed, which makes it wonderful. I actually really like the third that most seem to think is weak: I think it has the best story of the batch of them. And the God is fabulous in each of them.
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Summary: Awesome movies, excellent quality !
Review: Triple feature of the giant Majin, kind of a Japanese version of the Golem. Once evoked, the giant stone statue comes to life, bent on a vengeful rampage. The video quality is beautiful, with sharp contrast and nice color saturation. Much better than the VHS versions I already own. These are Japanese language with removable english subtitles. No extras, other than one ersatz "trailer" which is just a promotional short produced by ADV films. These movies are on three separate disks, in a special keep-sake box. My favorite is "Wrath of DaiMajin", with a scene right out of the "Ten Commandments", where the Majin parts the waters of a lake. I wish someone would publish the english language versions that were released to television, back in the late 1960's. (Unseen for over 30 years...hint, hint)
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Summary: Spectacular!
Review: Wow! When I booted the DVD into the player, I was expecting some cheap, Gamera-style kiddyshow typical of 1960's Daiei. What I got was a knock-out, action-packed, blood-filled SFX samurai epic! The effects are truly spectacular, even rivaling the Heisei Godzilla movies (minus Biollante). The first two thirds of the movie might not be exactly enthralling for some kaiju fans, but personally, I thought they were exciting as anything. In the first third, we see a creepy Majin-worshiping ceremony, a cool battle, and and some exciting chase scenes. In the second third, we see more chase scenes, and a few extremely cool torture scenes. However, it's in the third part that the movie really gets down to buisness. Majin awakes, and goes on a rampage destroying everything he sees. The effects were so awesome in this part, that I actually thought they were real for a second! Overall, this is an awesome movie with great effects, terrific plot, and fantastic acting. Daimajin has gotta be one of my favorite monster movies of all time. See it. Or else.
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