Also only in the USA version. During the scene where Gaira about to attack the people on the mountain, you can hear one of them say "Oh no Godzilla".

I haven't seen the UPA cut in a while, but I did recently watch the International dub of the Japanese cut when it was airing on TV. I was disappointed with how boring it was, I remembered the movie being a lot more lively, but now that I know how much was changed for the UPA version I might go back and give that another watch. Nothing can fix how much of a charisma vacuum Russ Tamblyn is, though.

My favorite Toho film and best movie directed by Ishiro Honda

This is the one where it's hard to choose from, the original Japanese version has the original music, but in the US version, the final battle plays the Akira Ifukube soundtrack from Godzilla: Invasion of the Astro Monster, which was overall my favorite part of the film.

I love War of the Gargantuas. It's one of my Favorite Monster Movies.

I'm blown away, I legitimately had no idea there was this much of a difference between the 2 cuts! I always thought War of the Gargantuas had received a very light touch and that the two versions were basically identical! I've seen the two, how did I never notice?!

The world has this awesome movie to thank for Brad Pitt becoming an actor at all. That's how important it is.

THE JUVENILE SANDA IS SO CUTE

Honestly, it is a very surreal experience seeing the two versions side by side. Someone once said that it's like UPA did a George Lucas Special Edition with Tamblyn in some of the scenes; like they CGI-ed him into the frame. I know that's not what they did, but if I didn't know that CGI didn't exist then, I would think that.

I prefer the American Cut due to the added sound effect of Gargantuan feet hitting the ground. In all the shots of both Kaiju, we get that great reverberating effect. In the Japanese version, not all scenes feature this sound. The downside to the American Cut, the musical changes done to Ifukube's score. The Japanese Cut appears to have better color, but there could be some brightness added to the transfer. I will have to get both versions on BluRay.

Man. This is a retro classic

One of my favorite non-Godzilla kaiju films. Great work, I also liked the English version a bit more

Love these two movies. They were second and third only to Destroy All Monsters when I was little. Once Monstervision ran them , however, I was able to watch them a million times over. I did call not tire of them one bit

Great video! There's also an international dub of the film that uses the monster's Japanese names and re-inserts the mentions of Frankenstein. I watched it recently on Comet!

Still got this one on the watchlist, waiting for a U.K. release for a few of these.

Great video as usual. Probably my favorite non-Godzilla kaiju movie.

It always made me laugh that everyone in this Movie knew what a Gargantua was.

This is a terrific comparison - really helps. I wish they would put the American "War of the Gargantuas" on blu ray. That and "Frankenstein Conquers the World." Those along with the original "Rodan" are my favorite Toho films!

Not surprised to hear Russ Tamblyn was tough to get along with - his whole performance comes off as "Eff this stupid movie, where's my paycheck?" XD

Has there ever been a fan re-eddit combinig scenes exclusive to each print?

Amazing video Paper Finz.

I love this movie

I pretty much quit watching monster movies in the 1980s but did appreciate this review. Well done and thanks for sharing. :)

It's also been said that 1) Tamblyn didn't like the dialogue he was given, so he ad-libbed a lot, and 2) the scene where a boulder hits Sandas' knee was really an accident and not something that was planned. Regardless, I've watched this movie over and over without ever getting bored of it.

I think Honda and Sapperstien had two movies in mind and in a very unusual move figured out a way to do that in the same shoot. I feel that they would have had to have the reshoots for the USA release happen during production judging by the camera set-ups and continuity. They must have made the USA version adjustments during the scripting process then shot both versions of the same scenes with two different versions on the same day. I can only speculate ...

Been waiting for you to do this!

Awesome work although l can’t prove it but U.S television prints used to open up with gargantua-octopus boat sequence then the abruptly cut to the U.P.A logo then the stormy sea war of the gargantua title credits. The film’s music has always been a toss up with fans as with ‘King Kong vs.Godzilla’ the American versions library music can be heard in the finale of the low budgeted “blood waters of Dr. Z” Aka: Zatz. That spitting out of the woman’s clothes by the green gargantua was always a bit disturbing as a kid (never could understand why there was second shot of some gooey flowers) great video! so what’s next? “The Mysterians”? , “Atragon”? , “Half human”? I’m sure whatever you do will be done well and thoroughly.

It wouldn't till much, much later; would I learn that WAR OF THE GARGANTUANS was *actually* a sequel to FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD...Still blows my mind.

There are scenes commissioned by the American producers to be made for the American cut as well

can you do Godzilla vs Gigan differences cause the American version cuts some stuff out (I'm talking about the Godzilla on monster island cut not the international English dub

I love it!!!

I miss this series! Please bring it back!

The Version shown on Tubi seems to be a combination of these 2.

Groovy.

That DVD set has an incredible documentary about Godzilla on it called "Bringing Godzilla Down To Size."

The main difference I noticed is the "Frakensteins" in the Japanese version seemed to bave similar fur coloring whereas in the American version the Gargantuas are clearly brown and green! For years the subway scene baffled me where, after seeing a Gargantua standing near an exit, Emiko started to walk up the stairs before the doctor told her " That's the Green One!" You can see his legs were green so how could she be confused? Once I did the ol' "back and forth" between the two versions, the mystery was solved. Another difference that Iliked were the differentces in the soundtracks. The military suite in the American version was more intense and it was exciting to see them on the verge of killing the Green One ( " They're finally going to win this time!)

This is quite insane, but really interested. I JUST saw the movie on KZfaq(with ads) since I haven't seen this movie in such a long time. Wish I had the score by Akira Ifukube(which I have his "King Kong Escapes" and many various Gojira scores). Good stuff..

My favorite Toho monster movie as a kid my brother and I used to play as them switching monsters at other times also frankenstein conquers the world

I have this gem on VHS , part of my Massive tape collection 👌🏻

I have no idea why Frontier dubbed Tamblyn with another actor for their International Dub version. But I can only suspect that Toho only shipped them the M&E tracks with the print they gave them. I also thought that perhaps that's what happened to the UPA version, but that doesn't explain the other scenes.

What about giant footstep sounds of the gargantuas walking and running around? Or lack of using those sounds and the audio differences if any within both versions? Because every giant monster movie definitely needs lots of thunderously frightening giant footstep sounds. First far away barely noticable, then ominously getting closer and closer while crashing louder and louder. Shown mostly but not only from the helpless perspectives of the terrified humans under attack. Something vital thats absent or very lacking from giant monster movies?!

this was one of my favorite monster movies and still is today . me and my friends saw it a t the movies in 1971 for 75 cents ,i was 8 years old .i remember how how funny it was for me and my friends, we would laugh at how Russ Tamblyn's voice was so clam and worry free amongst all the chaos and destruction going on in the film. we would also laugh at how the green one ran ,saying " he runs like a girl" .this really brings back memories . im not sure which movie is the one with Russ Tamblyn's original voice in it ? and if its available on dvd .

Something i STILL don't understand: HOW are the 'little baby Gargantua' actually "related to" the Frankenstein Monster BOY from the 1st film (1965)..?!?

The Original Mothra from 1961, American vs Japanese Versions, The Mill Creek Blu-ray has Both Versions on the Same Disc

Maybe my memory isnt so good after 50 years but wasnt there at least one scene where both the green and brown monsters were being kept together in a lab when they were little?

This a has been a recent thought of mine, but maybe creating Sanda wasn't needed. He has basically the same backstory as Frankenstein, a similar enough personality and the more popular Gargantua is Gaira anyway. So they could have doubled down on War of the Gargantuas being a sequel by using Frankenstein in Sanda's role and instead of creating Akemi and Paul Stewart reuse Sueko and James Bowen. Or if Sanda needed to be created Ishiro Honda could have commited to making this a standalone like he wanted to, giving Sanda and Gaira different origins, like them being types of giant apes or both being experiments created by humans to do a nature vs nuture experiment (as soon as he's born Gaira is left in the wild while Sanda is chosen to be the one raised with love and kindness by humans) What sounds like a better direction?

How does the American and Japanese cut compare to the International Dub? That one is on HBO Max

Are there gonna be any more differences videos?

It wasn't her remains, it was her clothing. 04:41

I definitely love this movie but I prefer the American version of this film.

One of the rare cases that the American cut is the better film

lol this comparison got me more confused lol

Next do godzilla ebirah mothra great duel in the sea (ebirah horror of the Deep)

Scared the shit out of me as a kid🥹

Where can I find the english version

I just saw the Japanese version and the American version is better, in the Japanese version the music was terrible, especially the music for the military scenes, it didn't bring out the mood of what was going on. The US version was much better, the music fit in every scene.

What about Kip Hamilton singing. Every version is horrible! 😂🤣 Just kidding! 😂

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