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A young action scientist ventures back home following in his father's footsteps to find a dinosaur egg.A young action scientist ventures back home following in his father's footsteps to find a dinosaur egg.A young action scientist ventures back home following in his father's footsteps to find a dinosaur egg.
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- TriviaThe movie became a cult film in Soviet Russia where it was the only Japanese monster movie to see a release before the 1990s. Interestingly, it wasn't the prehistoric creatures that caught the attention of audiences, but the depiction of a foreign capitalist country with its modern advancements. In particular, Soviet moviegoers were astonished that Japanese people owned Polaroid cameras.
- Alternate versionsThe US Broadcast version that was made by Sandy Frank in the early 1980s and was availible from Celebrity Video is missing certain scenes. Besides the original Toei logo and opening credits being replaced by Frank's credits, 2 scenes have been cut; they are:
- 1. The part with the woman in the shower has a brief shot of nudity in the light before it mysteriously goes out.
- 2. When Sawa pulls her friends remains into the raft, the US version cuts it so you dont see the body slung in; we only see it drop in.
- ConnectionsEdited into Tokusou Robo Janperson: Dasshutsu Funô no Meikyû (rabirinsu) (1993)
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A classic Japanese masterpiece!
I originally saw this movie when I was five years old. It was aired on a USA network creature feature. The movie fascinated me. My father taped the movie using our crappy 80's VHS player. I watched the movie throughout the next ten years until the actual tape broke from strain.
I'm not quite sure what it is exactly that makes me so incredibly addicted to this film. The soundtrack is a awesome 70's jap-pop funk. The dinosaurs, a pleasiasaur and some pterodactyl variant, are so rubber campy they're great. The acting is absolutely some of the worst acting ever committed to film, and that's including high school musicals and Congo.
I thought that i would never see this film again after my tape broke, but two years ago I found dude on the internet selling DVDs of the original Japanese print with English subtitles.
I'm not quite sure what it is exactly that makes me so incredibly addicted to this film. The soundtrack is a awesome 70's jap-pop funk. The dinosaurs, a pleasiasaur and some pterodactyl variant, are so rubber campy they're great. The acting is absolutely some of the worst acting ever committed to film, and that's including high school musicals and Congo.
I thought that i would never see this film again after my tape broke, but two years ago I found dude on the internet selling DVDs of the original Japanese print with English subtitles.
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- navy_sean18
- Dec 28, 2006
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- The Legend of the Dinosaurs
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977) officially released in India in English?
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