Topic on User talk:Les

Hey Les. Curious why you undid some of the contributions I did on Showa era? I added a ton of obscure kaiju/tokusatsu films that I thought would really add to the page. I'll admit I'm very new to editing on Wikizilla and I'll definitely do my best to follow any rules/guidelines that I might have broke, but I thought I'd reach out anyways since I thought the contributions I made were pretty good. Thanks :)

Hey, no worries, I appreciate your concern. Pages on this wiki are usually approved on a case-by-case basis, but generally if a tokusatsu film is not kaiju, supernatural or disaster related it will not be considered for inclusion. We also generally do not cover Toei content on the site, though The Magic Serpent is an exception due to other connections which make it more relevant. Films like Konto 55 will not be covered on the site, due to them not falling within our scope. Horror of the Wolf is technically related, but we've decided against its inclusion due to it essentially being an exploitation film with a horror veneer. As for The Rainbow Man, as far as I could tell it was simply a detective film with tokusatsu-esque nightmare sequences. Eiji Tsuburaya's involvement is speculative at best, as he isn't actually credited. I'm not too familiar with Daiei's other work, which is why I didn't delete them from the list altogether; they can still be found in the page code, but hidden. We'll have to look into them and determine if they're worthy of inclusion, as again, I'm not familiar enough with their content to say.

Hey, thanks for responding so quickly. I was under the assumption that any and every tokusatsu film that isn't Super Sentai/Kamen Rider/Henshin etc. could be covered on here, so thanks for clearing that up. I'll do my best to only add stuff that falls under the kaiju/supernatural/disaster perameters in the future. That being said, if Horror of the Wolf is just an exploitation film with a horror veneer, shouldn't Wolf Guy (1975) be taken off the page as well since half of that movie is basically just softcore p***? Lastly, I went back to look at the Daiei films you took off and I think at the very least these should be included. The rest I feel can be taken off.

Invisible Demon - Third Daiei Invisible Man film

The Demon of Mount Oe - Has a giant bull and giant spider (kaiju)

Wind Velocity 75 Meters/Typhoon Reporter - Disaster film

The Snow Woman - Supernatural

The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch - Supernatural

Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare - Supernatural, kaijin, and kaiju (The other three Yokai Monsters films are included still)

The Invisible Swordsman - 4th Daiei Invisible Man film

Virus - Disaster film

It's not up to me but Virus doesn't really fit here either. The other disaster films on the site are either Toho productions or heavy on special effects content. Virus is neither.

I haven't seen Invisible Swordsman but apparently it's pretty similar to the Yokai movies Daiei was making around the same time. I think its Japanese Wikipedia page says it's informally considered the fourth Yokai Monsters movie, although I don't know just how informal that classification is.

I think that's a fair assessment for Virus. I haven't actually seen it, but every time I read up on it it's always called a "disaster" or apocalyptic film.

I had no clue about the Invisible Swordsman-Yokai Monsters connection. If it actually is similar to the original Yokai trilogy then I'm really interested to see it.

All three Yokai Monsters films will definitely be covered. I'm not familiar with the rest, unfortunately. Wolf Guy isn't on the page.

OK, Transparent Swordsman is listed under "related works" on the Japanese Yokai Series page (it does not have its own entry). This is a rough Google translation:

Transparent Swordsman (1970)

    A special effects jidaigeki (period drama) produced by the Yokai series staff (Director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Screenplay: Tetsuro Yoshida). Youkai also appear. Some books have points of view that add to the series because they have something in common. It is also the last work of Daiei's "Special Effects Period Drama" movie that continued from "Daimajin" (1966).

No references. But it's also worth noting that it was the original co-feature of Gamera vs. Jiger. That was the last of several Daiei double features pairing Daiei Tokyo and Daiei Kyoto films.

The Daiei films interest me, but many are hard to come by. Wind Velocity 75 Meters is intriguing as the special effects sequences are apparently quite spectacular, but there is very little information available. Any clue as to what it's like or where the alternate title Typhoon Reporter comes from? Did it ever receive American or international distribution?

I don't think it ever got American distribution. I don't even know where the "Typhoon Reporter" title comes from, but a lot of sites that talk about the film refer to it as such. It can be purchased with no subtitles on sinistercinema.com

A decent amount of the movies you mentioned are featured in the book Daiei Tokusatsu Movie Chronicle which I'm flipping through. There are a handful of pictures, at least. One I'd consider for inclusion is The Demon of Mount Oe.