Terasawa wrote:These are addressed in the R1 DVD and Region A Blu-Ray reviews of KKE: "On the downside, there is also some minor stock footage padding added as well, from movies such as The War of the Gargantuas (1966)."
However, that's not the case. The KKvsG and WOTG stock footage is in the Japanese version of KKE.
Isn't there some additional footage in the US cut via stock footage that is not in the Japanese cut? Like I think the US cut features the police from the town evacuation, but cuts away before Gaira would have appeared over a building in broad daylight. But who knows.. maybe my memory is playing tricks on me, as I only have KKE the Japanese cut on VHS. I could have sworn the footage of the farmers evacuating while Gaira runs in the background (swapped out for King Kong in the 1967 film) was exclusive to the US cut, but I'm watching an abridged video of the Japanese version and see that scene there so I could be working under a false assumption there. Will require at some stage digging out my VHS player.
Anyway, these other notations will appear in the next update, so thanks.
G-Matt wrote:That may be the case, but if I'm correct, the stock footage listings always use the movie the scene was originally shot for. So here, even if the flipped footage from TROG was used, it's still from PON, and that's the movie that gets listed.
Correct. Same applies for overlays, if for example a beam was overlaid on footage from Godzilla vs. Hedorah for Godzilla vs. Gigan that was later reused... Godzilla vs. Hedorah would be cited for it.
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