Blood in the Showa films.... Too much?

[Dillyziller]

I want to know your opinion is on the amount of blood in the Showa films. Anyone else think it was just too much? Sometimes I feel like they just wanted a lot of blood but didn't know when to use it. I dunno if i'm the only one who feels the same but what do you'll think?

[20th Century Boy]

^ Yeah, this. If anything, the Showa Gamera series was "too much" when it came to blood and gore.

[shippersdreamer]

The Showa Godzilla series was relatively tame in violence/gore in comparison to other toku shows and movies at that time. Ultraman (Muruchi getting torn to pieces), Kamen Rider (A kaijin getting stabbed in the eye and later on decapitated), and Gamera got away with things a lot more gruesome than what was shown in some of the Showa Godzilla movies. I thought the violence/gore levels in the Showa G films were fine. -shrugs-

I'm gonna have to agree. Showa Gamera got away with a LOT more than what Showa Godzilla did.

[Baragon]

Godzilla vs. Gigan was the first to have Godzilla bleed in any movie.. Of course it only had a few scenes with the blood,
*Godzilla's shoulder, and head*, Godzilla vs. Megalon had blood, but only in stock footage, and the most amount of blood was in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. I dont think there was any in Terror of Mechagodzilla.. but honestly i thought it was too much..

[eabaker]

"Too much" according to what standard?

[edgaguirus]

You object to the blood fountain from Godzilla's neck? G vs MG does have the most blood, but it's a brutal fight when you think about it. Showa Godzilla's blood and gore are insignificant when you look at other kaiju in film and tv of the time. Guiron decapitated and sliced up a Space Gyaos, and the only Showa Godzilla monster to be decapitated by MG. In one Ultraman, Ultraman used his sharp head crest to cut a monster's throat.

[H-Man]

I thought it had the right amount. It's memorable and even brutal, but not WTF/mean-spirited-to-the-point-of-traumatizing like what the Gamera films gave us. As I understand it, Haruo Nakajima didn't care for its inclusion in GvsG and left the series because of it. Or I may be way off base.

[Legion1979]

As I understand it, Haruo Nakajima didn't care for its inclusion in GvsG and left the series because of it. Or I may be way off base.

That's not what it was at all. Nakajima was getting older and didn't have the passion to go on after Tsuburaya died.

[shippersdreamer]

Actually if we're going by monsters in general then one could argue Hedorah had the most blood since he is torn apart.

But did he actually BLEED? I mean Hedorah is just some...pollution blob monster. I'm not too sure if it can bleed at all.

[Shadow]

To me there's no such thing as too much blood.
But the blood spilled in the Showa films was rather low.
Nothing says getting your ass kicked more than bleeding like a butchered hog.

[Terrier]

Hell Ultraman has a monster rip off another monster lower jaws.

I remember watching a video of it once when sombody here linked it, but I can't find it anymore. Any help?

[ILL GREEN]

Showa Godzilla has hardly the gore. Ultraman and Gamera has gore galore though. I like that Toho uses red blood for Godzilla.

Red King is the most brutal, he rips Pegila's wing off and threw it at him for good measure.

[Beef Bigshot]

Hell Ultraman has a monster rip off another monster lower jaws.

I remember watching a video of it once when sombody here linked it, but I can't find it anymore. Any help?

im still traumatized from that

[Terrier]

Red King is the most brutal, he rips Pegila's wing off and threw it at him for good measure.

http://mechagodzillajunior.blogspot.com ... -king.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_DoJmHQUs

Hell Ultraman has a monster rip off another monster lower jaws.

I remember watching a video of it once when sombody here linked it, but I can't find it anymore. Any help?

im still traumatized from that

I THINK it involved Red King, in the middle of the mountains; does anybody know at least wich monsters were involved?

[Space Hunter M]

That was Doragory ripping off Muruchi's jaw in Ultraman Ace. And it was glorious.

http://gifsound.com/?gif=fc05.deviantar ... mGcHU&s=28

[Terrier]

That was Doragory ripping off Muruchi's jaw in Ultraman Ace. And it was glorious.

http://gifsound.com/?gif=fc05.deviantar ... mGcHU&s=28

Thanks, he sure earned the "gory" part of his name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3HxBLtTeI

[schvanzbass]

^^^^This, holy crap. I've never watched any Ultraman but SHIT. It's not gruesome in an Evil Dead or Dawn of the Dead way but still. Pretty intense for 70's television.

[Kubo]

Thanks, he sure earned the "gory" part of his name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3HxBLtTeI

For the kids, they say...

[edgaguirus]

In Japanese culture, things like that weren't as frowned on. While violent, it wasn't the concern that it would be in the U.S.

I remember an Ultraman fight where our hero cuts a monster in half, and then we see the body halves float to the surface of a lake.

[he-ba]

Showa Godzilla has hardly the gore. Ultraman and Gamera has gore galore though. I like that Toho uses red blood for Godzilla.

Red King is the most brutal, he rips Pegila's wing off and threw it at him for good measure.

Red King is pretty gruesome, although Ultraman beats him even before his color timer even blinks. When he ripped Pegila's wing, I remember shocked as a little boy that that would even happen in Ultraman. And then he kills Pigmon (correct me if I'm wrong, I always confuse Q with Man), which traumatized me, even though you see him for a whole 30 seconds total in the episode. He was so adorable! (From I was a child.....)