Sci-fi's Greatest Hits, #83: "The Gamera March" from "Gamera vs Jiger". скачать в хорошем качестве

Sci-fi's Greatest Hits, #83: "The Gamera March" from "Gamera vs Jiger".

"Gamera March". Music by Kenjiro Hirose, lyrics by Hidemasa Nagata, performed by Daiei Children's Chorus. Title song for "Gamera vs Jiger", AKA "Gamera vs Monster X" (1970 - Daiei Studios). "Gamera vs Jiger" (released as "Gamera vs Monster X" in the US) is the sixth film in the Gamera franchise, a series which, unlike Toho's competing "Godzilla" property, had strong kiddie representation from the very start. By 1970, Gamera had gone completely juvenile, with adolescent boys being the primary human heroes and the tone turned rather goofy. "Gamera vs Jiger" features the giant projectile-firing lizard Jiger as Gamera's fifth sparing partner (he didn't have a kaiju adversary in his first film). It's also the third feature to include The Gamera March, the monster hero's theme song, which had supplanted Song of Gamera (Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits, #56) as his musical anthem. Properly, I should have chosen "Gamera vs Viras" (1968) to represent it, as the highly recognizable theme appeared there first. While sloppy research was the cause, I don't regret the choice; this orchestration is the one I remember best. Plus, Jiger exercises a tactic I find delightfully ghoulish, that of paralyzing prey items, then injecting a parasitic pupa meant to eat the victim from the inside. The two underage protagonists, Hiroshi and Tommy (the second kid always turns out to be occidental for egalitarian and, doubtless, export purposes), are compelled to undertake a Fantastic Voyage into Gamera's cavernous body in order to root out the infection.