Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection (1986)

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Toho Unused Special
Effects Complete Collection
VHS cover art for Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection
Alternate titles
Flagicon Japan.png Toho Special Effects Unused Film Complete Collection (VHS 1986)
See alternate titles
Directed by Koichi Kawakita
Producer Keiji Yabuki
Written by Koichi Kawakita
Music by Akira Ifukube
Production company Toho Video
Distributor Toho VideoJP, The Criterion CollectionUS
Running time 59 minutes

Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection (東宝特撮未使用フィルム大全集,   Tōhō Tokusatsu Mishiyō Firumu Taizenshū, lit. "Toho Special Effects Unused Film Complete Collection") is a 1986 direct-to-video documentary written and directed by Koichi Kawakita. It features deleted scenes and bloopers from Toho's science fiction and war films (primarily those whose special effects were directed by Eiji Tsuburaya) as well as interviews with key staff members. The score is comprised of re-orchestrated classic Toho kaiju film music by Akira Ifukube that was released as the album OSTINATO. Toho Video released the doc on VHS in Japan; though bootleg versions began circulating in the U.S. in the 1990s, it did not officially become available there until 2019, when it was included as a bonus feature on The Criterion Collection's Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 Blu-ray box set.

Films featured

Staff

Main article: Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection/Credits.

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

Interviewees

Gallery

Main article: Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection/Gallery.

Alternate titles

  • Toho Special Effects Unused Film Complete Works (literal Japanese title)

Videos

Test footage of the Giant Octopus
from King Kong vs. Godzilla
Cel animation of King Ghidorah's emergence in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
"Godzilla vs. Manda" deleted scene
from Destroy All Monsters
Blooper reel

Trivia

  • The music used in this film's opening is "Conquest" by Douglas Wood of Omnimusic. The music used for the end credits is "Space Overture" by David Barnett, also made for Omnimusic, which was later used in the 1994 attraction Monster Planet of Godzilla, also directed by Koichi Kawakita.

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