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Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters (2008)

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The Japanese poster for Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters
Alternate titles
Flagicon Japan.png Deep Sea Monster Reigo (2008)
See alternate titles
Directed by Shinpei Hayashiya
Producer Hisako Iwai, Hajime Okano,
Atsuko Iwai (executive)
Written by Shinpei Hayashiya, Keita Toriumi
Music by Keiichiro Kitazono
Distributor InterMediaJP
SRS CinemaUS
Running time 81 minutes
(1 hour, 21 minutes)
Aspect ratio 1.78:1
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Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters (深海獣レイゴー,   Shinkaiju Reigo, lit. Deep Sea Monster Reigo) is a 2008 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Reigo Associates and distributed by InterMedia Co., Ltd. It premiered on June 12, 2008, at the Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo. Set in 1942, the film depicts a sea monster hunting the real-life battleship Yamato after the accidental death of its child. It is the first original kaiju film by Gamera 4: Truth director and popular rakugo performer Shinpei Hayashiya.

Plot

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Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Directed by   Shinpei Hayashiya
  • Written by   Shinpei Hayashiya, Keita Toriumi
  • Executive producing by   Atsuko Iwai
  • Produced by   Hisako Iwai, Hajime Okano
  • Music by   Keiichiro Kitazono
  • Cinematography by   Masayuki Nakazawa, Satoshi Murakami
  • Production design by   Naoya Yoshida, Atsushi Takahara
  • Special effects by   Kazuaki Skiyama

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Taiyo Sugiura   as   Ensign Takeshi Kaido
  • Mai Nanami   as   Chie Kojima
  • Yukijiro Hotaru   as   Divisional Officer Noboru Osako
  • Susumu Kurobe   as   Captain Yamagami
  • Yoji Tanaka   as   Kanai
  • Mickey Curtis   as   Grandpa
  • Yumika Hayashi   as   Momoka
  • Ukon Ichikawa   as   Benkei
  • Yoko Kanda
  • Yui Nirehara
  • Mubu Nakayama
  • Masayoshi Okada
  • Koki Hisaka
  • Toshihiko Yamamoto
  • Akihiro Shimizu
  • Makoto Inamiya
  • Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Yuma Kusakawa
  • Isamu Ago
  • Yoji Tanaka

Appearances

Monsters

  • Reigo
  • Bonefish

Weapons, Vehicles, and Races

Development

Following tremendous fan interest in Gamera 4: Truth, Option Inc. hired Shinpei Hayashiya to direct an original kaiju film for them.[1] First titled A-140F6: Operation Deep Sea Monster Reigo, then Reigo vs. Yamato, the basic premise remained the same: a sea monster battles the massive Japanese battleship Yamato.

Production

Several tokusatsu luminaries helped bring the creatures of Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters to life. Garo creator Keita Amemiya designed Reigo, while the puppet was sculpted by Tomo Haraguchi and Shigeaki Ito. Shinichi Wakasa designed the Bonefish, which were sculpted by employees of his company MONSTERS, Inc., including Fumihiko Yagi. The internal mechanisms of the creatures were created by Nobuhiro Ekubo.

Theatrical Releases

  • Japan - June 12, 2008

Alternate Titles

  • Deep Sea Monster Reigo (initial title)
  • Reigo: The Deep-Sea Monster vs. the Battleship Yamato (English title prior to 2019; also used for SRS Cinema's VHS release)

U.S. Release

Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters premiered at the American Film Market on November 3, 2005, under the title Deep Sea Monster Reigo. Revision on the film began in early 2006, but were delayed due to lack of funding from Option. Producer Yuichi Asada managed to transfer ownership of the film to his own company, InterMedia Co., Ltd., allowing it to be finished by 2008. Though it played in Japanese theaters that year and was given the English title Reigo: The Deep-Sea Monster vs. the Battleship Yamato, it remained unavailable in the U.S. until 2019, when SRS Cinema acquired the rights to it. Retitling the film in imitation of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, they have released limited-edition VHS and Blu-ray versions of it, with a DVD edition scheduled for November 26, 2019.

Reception

Video Releases

8-Films DVD (2011)

  • Region: 2
  • Discs: 1
  • Audio: Japanese, German (5.1)
  • Subtitles: German
  • Special Features: None

SRS Cinema VHS (2019)

  • Tapes: 1
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Notes: Limited to 50 copies.

SRS Cinema DVD/Blu-ray (2019)

  • Region: N/A
  • Discs: 1
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Special Features: Option to watch the film in black-and-white, photo gallery, trailers
  • Notes: The Blu-ray edition is limited to 1,000 copies. The DVD edition will be released on November 26, 2019.

Sequels

Shinpei Hayashiya directed a sequel set in the present day, Raiga: God of the Monsters, in 2009. The third film, Raiga vs. Ohga, premiered in Japan in 2019 and will be distributed on home video by SRS Cinema in 2020.

Videos

Japanese Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters trailer
American Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters trailer

Trivia

  • Yukijiro Hotaru's character is named Osako and plans to name his unborn son Tsutomu, referencing Hotaru's recurring role as Tsutomu Osako in the Heisei Gamera trilogy.
  • Taiyo Sugiura is best-known to kaiju fans as Agent Haruno Musashi, the human host of Ultraman Cosmos who prefers to pacify the monsters he fights instead of destroying them. Appropriately, his character is the first to plead that Yamato cease fire on the wounded Reigo.

References

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Other Toho films
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Ramayana (1940s) • Invisible Man (1954) • Half Human (1955) • Rodan (1956) • The Mysterians (1957) • The H-Man (1958) • Varan (1958) • The Three Treasures (1959) • Battle in Outer Space (1959) • The Secret of the Telegian (1960) • The Human Vapor (1960) • Mothra (1961) • The Last War (1961) • Gorath (1962) • Matango (1963) • Atragon (1963) • Dogora (1964) • Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) • The War of the Gargantuas (1966) • The Killing Bottle (1967) • Latitude Zero (1969) • Konto 55: The Great Outer Space Adventure (1969) • Space Amoeba (1970) • Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972) • Submersion of Japan (1973) • ESPY (1974) • Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) • The War in Space (1977) • Magnitude 7.9 (1980) • Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) • Princess from the Moon (1987)
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Documentaries
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