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116-496: Daimajin was originally designed to be the first foe of Gamera , and the concept developed into both Daimajin and Barugon appearing in the 1966 film Gamera vs. Barugon . The filmmakers were also inspired by the golem that appeared in the 1936 Czechoslovakian film Le Golem . Daimon the vampire , the recurring character which made its debut in Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare , was heavily inspired by

232-577: A cameo role and often shortened to just cameo ( / ˈ k æ m i oʊ / ), is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts . These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake) or renowned people making uncredited appearances. Short appearances by celebrities , film directors , politicians , athletes or musicians are common. A crew member of

348-586: A rip-off of Godzilla by some authors, Godzilla films including later Showa films, later Heisei continuity, "Millennium" films including Godzilla 2000 (1999), Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000), Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (GMK) (2001), Shin Godzilla (2016), Godzilla Minus One (2023), and MonsterVerse series by Legendary Pictures have been pointed out to be influenced by Showa Gamera films and Shusuke Kaneko 's Heisei Gamera Trilogy and GMK . Gamera

464-406: A "Capsule Monster", presumably based on characters of the same title from Ultra Seven which later inspired Pokémon . Noriaki Yuasa directed a related 1996 video Cosplay Warrior Cutie Knight , and Hurricane Ryu , who was also working for the 1994 manga Giant Monster Gamera , played Gamera for it. In the 2015 short film for the 50th anniversary of the franchise, Gamera saved a boy from

580-695: A "giant, monstrous turtle which flies by emitting flames from its retracted limbs" for STOP Series , a cancelled tokusatsu television program series in 1962. Gamera's turtle-like design may have been inspired by the Black Tortoise , one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations in East Asian mythology . The Black Tortoise is known as Genbu in Japanese , and is usually depicted as

696-447: A bond with the boy and develops the ability to breathe fire and fly. After consuming the glowing rock found with his egg, Toto fully transforms into the next incarnation of Gamera, gaining the power to defeat a lizard-like monster known as Zedus, which was once a normal reptile turned into a kaiju by feeding on Gyaos' corpse, and was presumably controlled by the vengeful spirits of the villainous flying creatures. Gamera Rebirth ,

812-536: A brief appearance to establish a shared universe setting, to make a point, or to offer homage . Balzac often employed this practice, as in his Comédie humaine . Sometimes a cameo features a historical person who "drops in" on fictional characters in a historical novel , as when Benjamin Franklin shares a beer with Phillipe Charboneau in The Bastard by John Jakes . A cameo appearance can be made by

928-559: A child-friendly son of Godzilla, was also possibly influenced by the Gamera franchise while Toto in the 2006 film Gamera the Brave in return bears physical and conceptual similarities to Minilla and Godzilla Junior in the 1994 film Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla . While Gamera the Brave re-used the original script of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe , its plot was also influenced by

1044-465: A couple of cameos. She had two cameos in Will & Grace and she even had a few in the 1990s. Actor Edward Norton appeared as himself in the satirical film The Dictator (2012) starring Sacha Baron Cohen . The mangaka Shotaro Ishinomori made many cameos in his Kamen Rider series. The animated series Adventures of Tintin featured its author Hergé in all the episodes. Stephen King

1160-417: A film about Tony Wilson , has a cameo by the real Tony Wilson and many other notable people. In the film Apollo 13 , James Lovell (the real commander of that flight) and his wife Marilyn appeared next to the actors playing them ( Tom Hanks and Kathleen Quinlan respectively), and Chuck Yeager , whose story is told in the early part of the film, appears in a cameo in the airfield bar. Domino Harvey made

1276-514: A large number of requests from players of the mobile game Godzilla Battle Line , and an official collaboration between the Netflix series and the mobile game was made where Seshita's incarnation of Godzilla was chosen for the key art, and Gamera and Gyaos and Guiron appeared in the game as playable characters, followed by Showa incarnations of Gamera and Gyaos. Additionally, Masaaki Tezuka once suggested using Gamera instead of Kamoebas for

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1392-515: A number of her former cast members, including the villain ( Arte Johnson ), Johnny Brown , Judy Carne , Henry Gibson , Gary Owens and Joanne Worley . Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) features cameos by dozens of actors from Hollywood's golden age. The Player (1992) features cameos from 65 Hollywood actors. Run for Your Wife (2012) is filled with cameos from 80 of Britain's film and TV stars from

1508-759: A number of staffs involved in Gamera productions, later participated in Godzilla and Ultraman productions. Due to the Six-Company Agreement , other companies, including Daiei Film itself, could not "openly" use tokusatsu techniques and staffs and actors of Toho . However, according to Keizō Murase , Eiji Tsuburaya 's teams were secretly appointed for Gappa: The Triphibian Monster by Nikkatsu (1967), The X from Outer Space by Shochiku (1967), and other subsequent productions, and Toho's techniques were secretly used in these films. For Gamera,

1624-406: A power to sense presences of other kaiju on certain children, and his name itself contains a power to somehow encourages a specific children and makes humans to feel that the name "Gamera" is the correct one. Gamera appeared to protect protagonist children from other monsters trying to feed on the children and other civilians. Through battles, Gamera was severely damaged and almost died, and during

1740-426: A series of earth tremors that are interpreted as the escape attempts of Daimajin, a spirit trapped within the mountain. These events are observed by Lord Hanabasa, and his chamberlain, Samanosuke, who are attempting to seize power in the area. As the villagers pray at a shrine, Samanosuke and his henchmen slaughter Hanabasa's family, with only his son and daughter escaping, who are assisted by the samurai Kogenta. Back at

1856-633: A short appearance as a street thug who confronts Pee-wee in the back alley in Pee-wee's Big Adventure , and a visitor at the fair in Blackpool who gets a skeleton thrown at him in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children . Director Martin Scorsese appears in the background of his films as a bystander or an unseen character . In Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), he played one of

1972-639: A short appearance in the credits of Domino , while the real Erin Brockovich had a cameo as a waitress named Julia in the eponymous movie (where her role is played by the actress Julia Roberts ). Sophie Wilson had a cameo as a barmaid in Micro Men , which shows her work for Acorn Computers . In a flashback sequence in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Raoul Duke (played by Johnny Depp ) runs into

2088-617: A swarm of Gyaos attacking Tokyo and incinerated them with a powerful fire blast. A decade later, another monster appeared to cause a havoc, and the boy again witnessed Gamera to return to fight against it. Both Gamera and Godzilla franchises have played significant roles in expanding modern cultures in Japan, and influenced various other productions, and the two franchises have also influenced each other on various occasions. Both along with other tokusatsu productions most notably Daimajin and Ultra Q and Ultraman franchises, formed

2204-404: A total of 12 films produced by Daiei Film and later by Tokuma Shoten and Kadokawa Daiei Studio ( Kadokawa Corporation ) respectively, and various other media such as novelizations, manga , video games, and so on. Gamera is depicted as a giant, flying, fire-breathing , prehistoric turtle . In the first film, Gamera is portrayed as aggressive and destructive, though he also saves a child. As

2320-523: A turtle entwined together with a snake . Each of the Four Symbols are said to act as guardians over each of the four cardinal directions , with the dragon Seiryu in the east ; the tiger Byakko in the west ; the bird Suzaku in the south ; and the tortoise Genbu in the north . In Gamera, the Giant Monster , the first film in the franchise, Gamera is depicted as awakening in

2436-548: Is famous for making short cameo appearances in almost every movie based on his novels. An Adventure in Space and Time , a drama about how Doctor Who began, features many actors from the show's past , including two past companions in a party scene, another as a mother calling her children in for dinner and a fourth in a car park at the BBC as a guard. In the movie adaptation of Les Miserables , Colm Wilkinson , who originated

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2552-473: Is shown, suggesting that Gamera was not the only one of his kind. One character in the film refers to these fossils as "beta versions" of Gamera, possibly failures in Atlantis' attempts to create the final version. This Gamera has retractable claws protruding from his elbows, and is shown to be able to shoot plasma fireballs from his mouth. Gamera has also been portrayed as being able to absorb mana from

2668-513: Is the sole television series of the franchise. Originally, Noriaki Yuasa from the Gamera franchise was appointed for the director along with Mamoru Sasaki as the writer and additional film crews from Toei 's Kamen Rider franchise. Former professional baseball player Kazuhiro Sasaki was nicknamed after the Daimajin, and Sasaki has participated in collaborations and advertisements with

2784-599: Is their first encounter with her. She in spirit-like form appeared from the Mount Ooe and surrounding mountains in north of the Heian-kyō , a presumed reference to the 1960 yokai film The Demon of Mount Oe by Daiei Film, and manifested a physical form and battled Nue , a gigantic yokai being empowered by vengeful Abe no Seimei , to save the world from antagonistic humans and yokais . Gamera overwhelmed and severely weakened Nue with her fireballs and spinning jet, and left

2900-411: Is unclear, and governmental officials and scientists try to use him as a weapon against villainous kaiju while protagonists try to save him. Gamera and Gyaos were designed to be much smaller yet heavier than previous incarnations, corresponding with the original scripts of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe which became the basis for the 2006 film. The opening scene of the film, set in 1973, depicts

3016-542: The Lethal Weapon franchise also directed by Donner – appears as the lead bank robber . He and Maverick (Gibson) share a scene where they look as if they knew each other, but then shake it off. As Glover makes his escape with the money, he mutters "I'm too old for this shit", his character's catchphrase in the Lethal Weapon films. In addition, a strain of the main theme from Lethal Weapon plays in

3132-546: The Arctic , the northernmost region on Earth. Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris , the 11th film in the franchise, contains a scene featuring a book describing the Four Symbols, including Genbu . Before the character was officially referenced to the Black Tortoise in the 1999 film, designs and background stories of Gamera and Gyaos were also inspired by ancient Chinese aspects during the production of Gamera: Guardian of

3248-480: The score when Glover is revealed. Actress Margot Kidder made a cameo appearance in the same film as a robbed villager: she had previously starred as Lois Lane in Donner's Superman (1978). Ben Stiller , Vince Vaughn , Owen Wilson , Luke Wilson and Will Ferrell have made appearances in so many of the same films (whether as lead characters or cameos) that USA Today coined the term " Frat Pack " to name

3364-535: The " First Kaiju Boom ", which became the basis for the " Second Kaiju Boom " and the " Yōkai Boom". Daiei Film 's objective was not to surpass the Godzilla franchise, but to coexist with it, and the Gamera franchise achieved to differentiate from the Toho productions to appeal to its audiences, and gained popularity notably among children and rivaled the Toho productions. While Gamera has been described as being

3480-417: The "Vanishing Fist". The continuity of the franchise was rebooted a second time with the 2006 film Gamera the Brave , the 12th entry in the series. This incarnation was designed after African spurred tortoise , and also possesses supernatural traits such as instant growth, telepathy , comprehending human speeches, sensing and foreseeing emergences of evil monsters from afar, and so on. Gamera's origin

3596-731: The "jet-flying turtle appeared on Fukuoka " and the "80 meters tall, fire-breathing, bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur-like lizard appeared on the port of Tokyo Bay ", clearly referencing Gamera in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe and Godzilla in The Return of Godzilla where several casts from the Heisei Gamera Trilogy such as Hirotarō Honda and Tomorowo Taguchi appeared in the film. Daiei Film produced and distributed films that played major roles in forming tokusatsu and kaiju genre. The company produced

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3712-744: The 1948 purge due to his involvements in war propagandas , and Arikawa and Araki's voluntary resignations after Toho strikes . However, Tsuburaya was rather dissatisfied with the tokusatsu production (or effects) in The Invisible Man Appears (or their attempts to join the company didn't materialize), and eventually didn't join Daiei Film. Tsuburaya and Arikawa and Araki later participated in Godzilla and various other Toho tokusatsu productions. Daiei Film, along with its own productions of various tokusatsu films, also distributed

3828-874: The 1958 Daiei film Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion . In this novelization, Barugon and Jiger directly appeared as the Azure Dragon and the White Tiger respectively. Each monsters are spiritual and sacred entities, being regarded as actual deities with supernatural powers such as telepathy , weaponizing weathers, destructive energy beam, levitation , and time manipulation. These monsters choose specific humans as summoners and forms supernatural links with them through magatamas , and bestow them superhuman prowess. The chosen ones can summon materialized monsters to perform tremendous feats, however, if summoners use monsters for destructive deeds,

3944-524: The 1960s, '70s and '80s. Aaron Sorkin also had cameos in some works he wrote: as a bar customer speaking about the law in his debut film screenplay A Few Good Men (1992), as an advertising executive in The Social Network , and as a guest at the inauguration of President Matt Santos in the final episode of The West Wing . Franco Nero , the actor who portrayed the Django character in

4060-452: The 1962 demo reel, which he believed as the original idea of Daiei's Gamera, to both Daiei Film and Eiji Tsuburaya (and Toho), while Yonesaburo Tsukiji , Tsuburaya's student and participated in both Nezura and Gamera , didn't agree with Sagisu's claim. Later, Tsuburaya's coworkers and students, who had participated in Godzilla and various other Toho productions, participated in Gamera and Daimajin and other Daiei productions, and

4176-892: The 2003 film Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. , and Gamera was at one point considered to appear in the 2007 video game Godzilla: Unleashed . The 1999 video game Gamera Dream Battle was able to connect to Mothra Dream Battle in which Mothra and King Ghidorah appeared as playable characters. Gamera and Godzilla and other monsters from respective franchises co-appeared in several exoteric productions and events such as stage shows, television show , Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball , The Simpsons , Daicon III and IV Opening Animations , MegaTokyo , City Shrouded in Shadow , The Slammie Brothers vs. Godzilla and Gamera , and USO MAKOTO Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari . Several franchises such as Dr. Slump , Detective Conan , Sailor Moon SuperS , and Jumbo Monster GOMERA have characters with

4292-553: The Atlanteans and inherited memories of their ancestors to mistake him as a threat. The incarnation of the character appeared in the 1980 film Gamera: Super Monster was depicted to be potentially a different individual from the previous films where a normal Pond slider was magically turned into a kaiju by the Spacewomen, a group of supernatural female aliens. In the end of the film, Gamera sacrificed himself to destroy

4408-453: The Earth, to fire a plasma beam from his chest, and to manipulate the energy to create a pseudo arm composed of fire to destroy a foe. Within the first and the third films of the trilogy, Gamera magically healed harmed humans including reviving temporary deceased or half-dead individuals although he was unable to revive nearby humans whose corpses were physically destroyed. In the 2003 comic, he

4524-527: The Flower Moon , in a minor role as a radio drama narrator. In a same way, Roman Polanski appeared as a hired hoodlum in his film Chinatown , slitting Jack Nicholson's nose with the blade of his clasp knife. F. Gary Gray has made many appearances in the films he has directed including Friday , Set It Off , Law Abiding Citizen , and Straight Outta Compton . Directors sometimes cast well-known lead actors with whom they have worked in

4640-521: The Giant Monster and Gamera vs. Barugon resulted in sudden increases of non-Toho kaiju productions. Film makers were suspicious of Tsuburaya's involvements to these non-Daiei productions{{refn|Aside from Tsuburaya, Fuminori Ohashi ( jp ) and Shinichi Sekizawa participated in Giant Phantom Monster Agon by Nippon Television , and Toho withdrew a complaint against the tv series regarding close resemblances of Godzilla and Agon

4756-479: The Giant Monster , some filmmakers who had previously participated in Godzilla and other Toho kaiju films joined its production despite the agreement. However, Daiei Film intentionally avoided receiving any technological assistances from Tsuburaya for the Gamera franchise to differentiate their productions from Toho, and produced Gamera and other tokusatsu films without Toho-based techniques, choices of materials, direction, and so on. Successes of Gamera,

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4872-540: The Giant Monster and Gamera vs. Barugon , cold temperatures are shown to weaken Gamera although he is capable of acting in outer space and deep sea . Gamera is also presumably capable of performing supernatural feats such as telepathy and remote sensing. Additionally, he has a high intelligence to outsmart antagonists, to tactically utilize artificial objects, cautiously behave to secure humans, and to repair an alien spaceship. Gamera's intention behind bizarre displays including acrobatic and musical acts in later films

4988-646: The Heisei Mothra trilogy. Ishiro Honda highly praised the 1967 film Gamera vs. Gyaos , pleasing Niisan Takahashi greatly and freeing him from his feeling of inferiority towards the Godzilla franchise. There was a failed attempt to produce a Daimajin film involving Honda in 1980s, and Takahashi later sent his script for the cancelled 1994 film, which later became the basis of the novelization Gamera vs. Phoenix , to several tokusatsu film makers including Honda; however, despite Honda's encouragement, Takahashi's attempt failed to materialize. During

5104-787: The Heisei trilogy and its cancelled sequel(s). Eiji Tsuburaya depicted Godzilla to be more heroic and to bleed in later Showa films despite disliking bleeding kaiju , and having avoided this in previous Showa films due to his belief in Christianity . Later Showa films featured more child-friendly aspects, depicting kaiju as characters than monsters, increasing the number of scenes involving kaiju, and adding more fancifully designed kaiju. Yoshimitsu Banno , who later planned to direct Gamera 3D , made Godzilla to fly in his Godzilla vs. Hedorah . These later Showa Godzilla films were presumably influenced by Gamera. The creation of Minilla ,

5220-478: The Invincible , the re-titled American release of the first film in the franchise, Gamera, the Giant Monster . The original idea for Gamera was developed by Yonejiro Saito , Masaichi Nagata , Hidemasa Nagata , Niisan Takahashi , and Noriaki Yuasa . The character was created as a property of the production company Daiei Film , and was intended to compete with the Godzilla film series (which features

5336-462: The Monster , and Majin, the Monster of Terror . In Japan, Daimajin is found on an island in the middle of a lake which is surrounded by two peaceful villages, Chigusa and Nagoshi. In a distant third village ruled by an evil lord, the citizens flee to Chigusa to take refuge. One day, the evil lord decides to take over the two villages and attempts to do so at an annual festival. After being pursued by

5452-627: The Toho productions. Plots of Showa Gamera films intentionally avoided to focus on "standards" of kaiju films by Toho, such as the JSDF and other military forces, weapons, scientific explanations, and so on. Instead, subsequent films since Gamera vs. Viras featured simple, childish, and eccentric plots for young audiences. In the films, children play significant roles with the eccentric ideas presented, and children, unlike adults, always believe in Gamera, partially due to Noriaki Yuasa 's antithesis against war and political propagandas . This direction

5568-571: The United States, but was released to television by AIP-TV in 1967. It also has been released under the alternate title Return of the Giant Majin In Japan, Daimajin is found at the top of a mountain. Fathers in a village have been captured by an evil lord and forced to work in labor camps. Four of their sons decide to go rescue them, even if it means crossing the mountain where Daimajin is. The four sons pay their respects to

5684-635: The Universe while the original script of the film focused more on ancient India . Gamera resembles an enormous prehistoric turtle , and is capable of both bipedal movement and flight . He occasionally walks on all four legs in Showa films and Gamera the Brave in 2006. He possesses a pronounced crest on his head, his mouth contains rows of teeth, and two tusks protrude upward from each side of his lower jaw. He can fly by means of "jets" which can be ignited out of his limb holes when he retracts his legs into his shell. The jets allow Gamera to rise into

5800-514: The Zanon, a gigantic spaceship of antagonists, while the 1994 manga Giant Monster Gamera depicted this Gamera's fate; Gamera was artificially resurrected by the descendants of Atlanteans with ancient technologies of the Atlantis , gaining characteristics of the Heisei trilogy Gamera, and was sent back to the ancient period to change the history to avoid a demise, to save and monitor humanity. In

5916-534: The action was restricted to the titular lifeboat, Hitchcock appeared in a newspaper ad. Quentin Tarantino provides brief cameos or small roles in all his movies. Likewise, Peter Jackson has made brief cameos in all of his movies, except for his first feature-length film Bad Taste in which he played a main character, as well as The Battle of the Five Armies , though a portrait of him appears in

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6032-487: The air and spin, propelling him forward. In later films, he is shown to be able to fly with only his rear legs drawn inside his shell, allowing his front limbs more freedom. Gamera's shell is presented as being incredibly resilient and strong (only ever being damaged by Guiron, Legion, Iris, and Zedus), and can deflect missiles and other projectiles. His plastron (lower shell) is more vulnerable than his carapace (upper shell), however, and he has been wounded in his plastron to

6148-477: The attack. Human researchers find Gamera floating in the Pacific Ocean , encased in rock, and mistake him for an atoll . Within the rock, they discover a large monolith explaining Gamera's origins, along with dozens of magatama made from orichalcum , which allow for a psychic link between Gamera and humans. In Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris , an undersea graveyard containing numerous Gamera-like fossils

6264-549: The author of a work to put a sort of personal "signature" on a story. Vladimir Nabokov often put himself in his novels, for instance as the very minor character Vivian Darkbloom (an anagram of his name) in Lolita . Cameos are also a tradition of the Muppets ' many projects over the years. Alfred Hitchcock is known for his frequent cameos in his movies , as early as in his third film The Lodger (1927). In Lifeboat , as

6380-482: The bankruptcy of Daiei Film , all of its representative tokusatsu franchises ( Gamera and Daimajin and Yokai Monsters ) have faced repeated inactivity in productions. There existed several revival attempts of Daimajin and Yokai Monsters along with the Gamera franchise, the most popular of the three, by Daiei Film's successors ( Tokuma Shoten and Kadokawa Corporation ). For example, Heisei Gamera trilogy initially started as an attempt to revive Daimajin, and

6496-560: The battle against S-Gyaos, an enormous Gyaos mutant who fed on Viras' corpse, Gamera was injected with specific RNA viruses to reprogram him for the original usage. However, Gamera managed to regain his consciousness by willpower and a telepathic link with a boy. To prevent himself from being enslaved for carnage, Gamera sacrificed himself to destroy the Moonbase of final antagonists, the descendants of nobles of an ancient civilization who were using kaijus. Using all of his remaining power for

6612-421: The cancellation of subsequent Daimajin productions. Daimajin along with Gamera and Daimon and Sadako Yamamura and multiple other characters from various franchises made cameo appearances in the novel series USO MAKOTO Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari by Natsuhiko Kyogoku . In 1988, Masahiko Katto produced a independent film titled The Resurrection of Daimajin . In Japan, a household of peasants cower during

6728-601: The carrot eating peasant in The Desolation of Smaug was featured in the foreground in reference to The Fellowship of the Ring . In addition, when he was directing Heavenly Creatures (1994), he appeared as a drunk person bumping into the main characters, and in the Frighteners , Jackson appeared as a man with piercings with his real-life son in a bouncer. Director Tim Burton briefly appears in his films. He made

6844-444: The case of many film adaptations of television series, or of remakes of earlier films. Others honour artists or celebrities known for work in a particular field, such as comic book writer Stan Lee , who made appearances in every Marvel Cinematic Universe movie up to Avengers: Endgame . Cameos also occur in novels and other literary works. "Literary cameos" usually involve an established character from another work who makes

6960-576: The character possess several supernatural abilities most notably telepathy , and others such as healing humans, understanding human speeches, and potential reincarnation , and some of book-only incarnations have been depicted to be actual deities with further abilities. During the franchise's Shōwa period , Gamera is depicted as feeding on flammable substances, such as oil and fire. According to notes by frequent series director Noriaki Yuasa , Gamera's internal anatomy includes sacs which allow him to store oil, lava, coal, and uranium . In Gamera,

7076-613: The company later launched another Daimajin project along with the Heisei Gamera trilogy. This was supposed to feature Steven Seagal , the father of Ayako Fujitani who played the human protagonist of the Gamera trilogy, and the plot written by Yasutaka Tsutsui and Katsuhiro Otomo was later published as a novelization. There had been additional revival attempts, such as one by Ishiro Honda in 1980s an alleged 1990s project by starring Kevin Costner , and Kadokawa, after acquiring

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7192-617: The copyrights of Daiei properties from Tokuma Shoten, announced a Daimajin project along with Godzilla vs. Gamera crossover in 2002, however the offer for a crossover was turned down by Toho . Among the three franchises, only the Daimajin has not received any new film productions as of 2024 (except for Daimajin Kanon and The Great Yokai War: Guardians ). Takashi Miike , who has directed The Great Yokai War and The Great Yokai War: Guardians , had also attempted to revive Daimajin in

7308-490: The entrapment by the Atlanteans, and Gamera's rampage against humanity was only to feed on thermal energy and electricity; he learned modern technologies of humanity through the atomic bomb explosion, and his attacks on cities was also to lure military operations so that he could feed more on thermal energy of weapons. The protagonist boy (Toshio) in the 1965 film kept claiming that Gamera is not villainous but has been misunderstood by humanity, and Gamera's uncontrollable appetite

7424-406: The evil lord's army, the people of Chigusa and Nagoshi find themselves on the island with the Daimajin statue. The evil lord has his men shatter the statue with a large amount of gunpowder. Daimajin's shattered remains end up at the bottom of the lake. Daimajin awakens to inflict chaos to all around it, including the landscape and the evil lord. Return of Daimajin was never released theatrically in

7540-532: The film, and gave the term wide circulation outside the theatrical profession. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), an "epic comedy", also features cameos from nearly every popular American comedian alive at the time, including The Three Stooges , Jerry Lewis , Buster Keaton and a voice-only cameo by Selma Diamond . "Murder on High C", a 1975 episode of the TV series Get Christie Love! , which starred former Laugh-In cast member Teresa Graves , featured

7656-668: The film. For example, he played a peasant eating a carrot in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Desolation of Smaug , a warrior of Rohan in The Two Towers , and a Corsair of Umbar boatswain in The Return of the King . All four were non-speaking "blink and you miss him" appearances, although in the Extended Release version of The Return of the King , his character was given more screen time and his reprise of

7772-453: The films progressed, Gamera took on a more benevolent role, becoming a protector of humanity especially children, nature, and the Earth from extraterrestrial races and other giant monsters. Despite its popularity and extensive social influences such as references in numerous media globally and naming of two species of prehistoric turtles, Sinemys gamera and Gamerabaena , expansion of

7888-480: The first installation in the Reiwa era introduced monsters' characteristics to represent not only homages to previous films but also some of unused ideas of previous films and scrapped projects. All kaiju in this series are artificial life forms created by ancient civilizations for warfare and to control the overpopulation of humanity. This incarnation of Gamera was also originally created for mass-massacres, however he

8004-446: The first post-war science fiction tokusatsu films in Japan; Rainbow Man and The Invisible Man Appears in 1949 under Masaichi Nagata , one of creators of Gamera. Eiji Tsuburaya and Sadamasa Arikawa and Shuzaburo Araki participated in these and other Daiei productions before the signing of Six-Company Agreement in 1953, and they intended to join Daiei Film with the 1949 films after Tsuburaya's exile from Toho because of

8120-402: The former professional baseball player Chikara Hashimoto 's acts of Daimajin, and Hashimoto was also appointed for the role of Daimon. After the original film trilogy in 1966, the series was revived in 2010 as a television drama titled Daimajin Kanon , broadcast on TV Tokyo . The Daimajin character also made a cameo appearance in the 2021 film The Great Yokai War: Guardians . Since

8236-457: The franchise and public recognition of the character were severely hindered by financial obstacles. The name Gamera ( ガメラ ) derives from the Japanese kame ("turtle"), and the suffix -ra , a suffix shared by such other kaiju characters as Godzilla ( Gojira ) and Mothra . Gamera's name was spelled Gamela on a French newspaper in the 1965 film, and Gammera in the title of Gammera

8352-405: The franchise had also triggered the cancellation of the reboot attempt as a television series in 1960s by Noriaki Yuasa and Mamoru Sasaki and Yoji Hashimoto along with the budgetary requirement; Yuasa and Sasaki were also originally appointed for Daimajin Kanon . Producing three Daimajin films within the same year presumably accelerated financial difficulties of Daiei Film and resulted in

8468-583: The franchise was also affected by the Godzilla franchise. Daiei Film avoided the market in the United States and instead focused more on European countries to decrease competition with Toho productions. Foreign cast members became increasingly well-represented due to requests from European buyers; however, these buyers also requested to avoid hiring black cast members. Daiei Film obliged, though some criticized Daiei Film for this decision. Cameo appearance A cameo appearance , also called

8584-399: The franchise's Heisei period , which began with the 1995 reboot film Gamera: Guardian of the Universe , Gamera's in-universe origins were changed. In the Heisei films, Gamera is portrayed as an ancient, bio-engineered creature from Atlantis , created for the purpose of defending the people of Atlantis from Gyaos , a bat-like creature which breathes a destructive supersonic beam when on

8700-420: The franchise. Gamera Gamera ( Japanese : ガメラ , Hepburn : Gamera ) is a fictional monster, or kaiju , originating from a series of Japanese films. Debuting in the 1965 film Gamera, the Giant Monster , the character and the first film were intended to compete with the success of Toho 's Godzilla film series . Since then, Gamera has become a Japanese icon in his own right, appearing in

8816-643: The gangsters; he was a lighting crewman in After Hours and a passenger in Taxi Driver . He opened up his film The Color of Money with a monologue on the art of playing pool. In addition, he appeared with his wife and daughter as wealthy New Yorkers in Gangs of New York , and as a theatre-goer and can be heard as a movie projectionist in The Aviator . He also appeared in his 2023 work Killers of

8932-400: The giant monster character of the same name ), owned by rival studio Toho . Prior to the idea of the flying turtle monster, there existed preceding concepts of an octopus kaiju called Dagora ( Japanese : ダゴラ ) and Nezura ( Japanese : ネズラ ) the rat monsters. There had been contradicting testimonies regarding the original conceptor and models of Gamera. Noriaki Yuasa believed it

9048-400: The group. Actor Adam Sandler is also known for frequently casting fellow Saturday Night Live performers (including Rob Schneider and David Spade ) in various roles in his films (as well as making cameo appearances of his own in theirs, most of which he co-produces). Sam Raimi frequently uses his brother Ted and Bruce Campbell in his films. The American singer/actress Cher had

9164-401: The ice. Meanwhile, a Japanese research team stumbles upon an Inuit tribe in possession of an ancient stone etching that depicts a giant turtle, which the tribe refers to as "Gamera". His incongruous ferocity in Gamera, the Giant Monster and the beginning of Gamera vs. Barugon was presumably due to an uncontrollable starvation and confusion after 8,000 years of hibernation caused by

9280-580: The late 2000s along with the 2006 film Gamera the Brave , which was allegedly cancelled due to the box office result of the 2006 Gamera film. Miike described the difficulty to revive the Daimajin franchise based on budgetary problems; Daimajin (as a character) is physically much smaller than traditional kaiju and Ultraman and directly interacts with humans. This results in necessity of increase in Daimajin's size to act among modern buildings, and expensive (large-scaled, life-sized, and detailed) models and props for filming. A rather predictable storyline of

9396-470: The literal meaning of " cameo ", a miniature carving on a gemstone. More recently, in the late 20th century, a "cameo" has come to refer to any short appearance as a character. Cameos are generally not credited because of their brevity, or a perceived mismatch between the celebrity's stature and the film or television series in which they are appearing. Many are publicity stunts . Others are acknowledgements of an actor's contribution to an earlier work, as in

9512-528: The main antagonist of the 2006 film was intentionally designed to resemble Toho monsters such as Varan and Gorosaurus , and it notably resembles Jirahs , the Godzilla-based kaiju from Ultraman . In 2023, the Netflix series Gamera Rebirth was directed by Hiroyuki Seshita who previously directed the anime Godzilla trilogy . This time, Toho instead proposed an offer for a crossover due to

9628-434: The mountain and exact its wrath on Samanosuke and his fortress. Daimajin's wrath begins to grow to attacking everything in sight, only stopping when Kozasa's tears land on Daimajin's feet. The film was released in the United States by Daiei International with subtitles in an English-dubbed version by Bernard Lewis. The film has been released under many English alternative titles, such as The Devil Got Angry , The Vengeance of

9744-410: The movie or show playing a minor role can be referred to as a cameo role as well, such as director Alfred Hitchcock who made frequent cameo appearances in his films. Originally, in the 1920s, a "cameo role" meant "a small character part that stands out from the other minor parts". The Oxford English Dictionary connects this with the meaning "a short literary sketch or portrait", which is based on

9860-494: The names "Gamera" and "Godzilla". In 2005, Shusuke Kaneko directed the 11th episode on Ultraman Max , choosing to include a scene of children playing with toys of Gamera and Godzilla as a reference to the films he had directed in both franchises. Ayako Fujitani also made an appearance as a guest in the episode. The 1998 Shochiku film Giant Monsters Appear in Tokyo represented off-screen appearances of two battling kaiju,

9976-466: The original 1966 film , appears in a bar scene of the Tarantino film Django Unchained . There, he asks Django ( Jamie Foxx ) to spell his name, which led to the famous promotional tagline for the film - "The 'D' is silent". Franco's character responds simply, "I know." Many cameos featured in Maverick (1994), directed by Richard Donner . Among them, Danny Glover – Mel Gibson 's co-star in

10092-456: The original Gamera, so called "Avant Gamera", sacrificing himself by means of self-destruction to save a coastal village from four Gyaos. 33 years later, a young boy named Toru Aizawa finds a glowing, heart-shaped rock near his home, with a small egg lying on top of it. A baby turtle hatches from the egg, and begins to grow in size at an alarming rate. The turtle, dubbed "Toto" by Toru after his own nickname by his deceased mother, quickly forms

10208-457: The past in other films. In Jane Eyre (1943), Elizabeth Taylor makes a cameo appearance as Helen Burns, Jane's friend from school who dies from a cold. Mike Todd 's film Around the World in 80 Days (1956) was filled with cameo roles: John Gielgud as an English butler, Frank Sinatra playing piano in a saloon, and others. The stars in cameo roles were pictured in oval insets in posters for

10324-468: The planet-penetrating Charged Baryon Cannon, the "Moon Buster", Gamera was literally dissolved into ashes, leaving behind an egg for the new incarnation of Gamera who strongly resembles Toto from the 2006 film. There have been multiple other incarnations of the character appeared in various other media from novelizations to manga and video games . The origin of the Gamera appeared in the 1995 novelization Gamera vs. Phoenix by Niisan Takahashi , which

10440-446: The plot of Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris and the planned plot of the scrapped sequel. In 2002, Kadokawa acquired the copyrights of Daiei Film properties from Tokuma Shoten and approached Toho to achieve a crossover between Gamera and Godzilla, however the latter turned down the offer and Kadokawa therefore produced Gamera the Brave instead as Toho temporary ceased Godzilla productions after Godzilla: Final Wars . Zedus,

10556-625: The point of bleeding. In canonical films, Gamera has never been depicted to feed on any faunal or plant organisms, and exclusively relies on thermal energy , electricity , radiation , and other energy sources. Using conventional weapons even including nuclear weapons against Gamera may also empower him instead. All incarnations of the character have an affinity for humans (especially children) and nature, and protect them at all costs even by sacrificing themselves. They may also save animals , wildlife , and innocent kaiju even if they are offspring of antagonists. All incarnations of

10672-436: The production of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe in 1995, Yasuyoshi Tokuma , the founder of Tokuma Shoten , expressed his interest in producing Godzilla vs. Gamera and proposed a crossover to Toho, however this attempt failed to materialize, and Yasuyoshi's death in 2000 and financial situation of Tokuma Shoten eventually resulted in the disposal of Daiei Film properties, along with the cancellation of "Gamera 4" due to

10788-495: The re-released edition of King Kong in 1952, making it the first post-war release of monster movies in Japan, and also distributed The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms in Japan in 1954, and these presumably influenced the productions of the 1954 film Godzilla by Toho and Daiei Film's own Gamera, the Giant Monster in 1965. The Six-Company Agreement led by the above-mentioned Masaichi Nagata , who later produced Gamera, prevented other companies from easily chasing after

10904-505: The real investor Michael Burry appeared as an employee of his hedge fund "Scion Capital" while answering the phone saying "Doctor Burry's office". An unusual example of a famous non-actor being given a small but speaking fictional role occurred in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Second Chances ." Dr. Mae Jemison , an astronaut , the first Black woman in space, and a long-time fan of Star Trek ,

11020-419: The real-life Hunter S. Thompson , upon whom the character of Duke is based, leading him to remark "There I was...mother of God, there I am! Holy fuck." Stephen Hawking in popular culture lists more than a dozen appearances of the scientist playing himself. Maria Von Trapp made an uncredited brief cameo appearance in the film version of her life, The Sound of Music . She appeared in the background during

11136-531: The rest to yokai and humans so that they can fulfill their destiny, and secretly disappeared (dematerialized). The presence of the " Black Tortoise " was also confirmed in the 2015 novelization Holy Beast War Chronicle: White Shadow ( 聖獣戦記 白い影 , Seijū Senki - Shiroi Kage ) , which was written by Shinichiro Inoue who was trying to reboot the franchise in early 2010s (and has also participated in Daimajin Kanon ), bears several plot similarities with

11252-640: The role of Jean Valjean in the West End and on Broadway, made a cameo as the Bishop of Digne . In the Soviet film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears , Innokenty Smoktunovsky appeared for a minute as himself. Films based on actual events occasionally include cameo guest appearances by the people portrayed in them. In The Pursuit of Happyness , Chris Gardner made a cameo at the end. 24 Hour Party People ,

11368-457: The sake of the planet which was damaged by the humanity. The incarnation of the character, the " Black Tortoise ", appeared in the spin-off novelization of the 2021 film The Great Yokai War: Guardians was uniquely portrayed to be an actual goddess , being capable of various supernatural abilities such as materialization , speaking human speeches, and making yokai and humans to feel that they somehow know her since their childhoods even if it

11484-407: The shrine, Samanosuke's men begin to take over and forbid gatherings at the shrine. After failing to warn Samanosuke about his actions, the priestess Shinobu returns home, finding Kogenta and the two children. Shinobu takes them up the side of the mountain into forbidden territory, where the stone idol which is Daimajin stands, half-buried in the side of the mountain. The children grow to adulthood with

11600-403: The son, Tadafumi (Yoshihiko Aoyama) reaching his 18th birthday. Meanwhile, Samanosuke has enslaved the village. After several attempts to return peace and freedom to the village, Samanosuke's men travel up the mountain to smash Daimajin. Damaijin is asked by the daughter, Kozasa ( Miwa Takada ) to save her brother, with the idol removing a mask to reveal Daimajin's real face, leading it to rise from

11716-738: The song "I Have Confidence" with her daughter Rosmarie and stepson Werner Von Trapp. Jacqueline Susann , author of the best-selling novel Valley of the Dolls , appears as a TV reporter in a brief scene in the film based upon her novel . Tom Morello , American guitarist and musician, made an appearance in the Marvel film Iron Man (2008), in which he also participated in the soundtrack . Elon Musk and Larry Ellison , both founders of large technology companies, were featured in cameos in Iron Man 2 (2010). The king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf ,

11832-513: The statue when they pass it so that they do not incur its wrath. The evil lord eventually angers the statue, who comes to life and destroys all those who have not been paying respect to it. The children and their fathers are spared, while the work camp is destroyed. Wrath of Daimajin was never released theatrically in the United States, but received the international English title of Majin Strikes Again . The 2010 drama Daimajin Kanon

11948-585: The success of Toho, and the Godzilla franchise didn't have notable competitors until the Gamera franchise; the agreement ironically made Daiei Film's own Dagora and Nezura to fail by using live animals ( octopuses and rats ) to avoid the Toho-style, and Daiei Film changed the direction for Gamera, the Giant Monster . Tomio Sagisu , who had previously participated in Daiei productions including The Whale God and Buddha , claimed that he showed

12064-454: The titular monster, due to the involvements of the two. } despite the Six-Company Agreement because of sudden increases in non-Toho kaiju productions after Gamera films, despite the only non-Toho tokusatsu film of that time before the 1965 Gamera film to feature gigantic creature was Daiei Film 's The Whale God ( Killer Whale ) in 1962. Showa Gamera films, especially since Gamera vs. Gyaos , were intended to appeal to children. This

12180-482: The world would be spiritually poisoned, only being cured by other chosen ones by the Four Symbols ; Nichiren , the current summoner of the Black Tortoise who was also bestowed abilities including time manipulation, tries to restore the world after the battle of Barugon and Jiger during the Mongol invasions of Japan . Gamera made several appearances in the tokusatsu program series Sailor Fight in 1995 and 1996 as

12296-508: Was Niisan Takahashi 's idea, while Takahashi noted that he heard Masaichi Nagata came up with the idea of a "giant, flying turtle". There had also been rumors of "lewd turtles" as the model(s) of Gamera, either true stories or jokes, among Daiei staffs including Yonejiro Saito . On the other hand, Tomio Sagisu , the founder of P Productions who had previously participated in productions of Daiei works such as The Whale God and Buddha , claimed that Gamera originates in his demo reel of

12412-450: Was depicted to be (supernaturally) capable of triggering eruptions among nearby lands and volcanoes . Within the comicalized adaptaion of the 1999 film by Kazunori Ito and Moo. Nenpei , who had also published another Gamera manga Gamera vs. Morphos in 1999, Gamera performed extreme regeneration to restore his head from mimicked Plasma Fireballs by Iris, and defeated the antagnoist with either an empowered fire blast or fireball instead of

12528-405: Was gradually satisfied, and he regained his natural calmness as the films progressed, and began to save humanity voluntary. His exact origin was not verified aside from his association with the ancient civilization of the Atlantis . Inuit 's fear of Gamera and his confinement in the Arctic , contrary to his heroic personality and favor of thermal energy, was presumably due to his entrapment by

12644-517: Was in the children's program Mika ( Mika och renen Ossian på äventyr ) when Mika was in Stockholm with his reindeer. In The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the real Jordan Belfort appeared as an emcee to introduce Leonardo DiCaprio , who played Belfort, in the final scene. Boxer Roberto Duran and his wife Felicidad made a cameo appearance towards the end of the film Hands of Stone , about Duran's life. In The Big Short (film) ,

12760-416: Was initially decided because a number of children watching Gamera vs. Barugon got bored with the plot and left their seats, and also to deal with drastically decreased budgets due to the financial situation of Daiei Film; the budget of Gamera vs. Viras was ¥24 million compared to budgets of Gamera vs. Barugon (¥80 million) and Gamera vs. Gyaos (¥60 million). Global distributions of videos of

12876-483: Was originally a script for a cancelled film in 1994, is unclear; Showa Gamera defeated villainous monsters like in the previous films while the "new" Gamera who emerged from underneath the Nazca Lines possessed characteristics of the 1995 film Gamera: Guardian of the Universe . This "new" Gamera initially attacked chemical plants all over the world, resulting in hostility from the humanity, however his intention

12992-493: Was presumably to calm and entertain onlooking children. The original 1965 film, Gamera, the Giant Monster , depicts Gamera's origins as being a result of United States military fighters launching an attack on enemy bombers (presumably belonging to the Soviet Union ), which causes the detonation of an atomic bomb on board one of the aircraft. The nuclear blast releases Gamera from a state of suspended animation in

13108-745: Was re-programmed by a rebellious figure to become the protector of civilians from other kaiju. During the downfalls of ancient civilizations, Gamera presumably stood against 24 different kaiju to protect the humanity. While previous incarnations of the character possessed affinities to elements most notably fire , electricity , and plasma energy , Gamera in Gamera Rebirth further expanded combat attributes to include electromagnetic pulse , jamming , gravitation , energy shield , and baryon . This incarnation also possesses several supernatural traits such as telepathy , psychic link with humans, interfering mental contacts by other kaiju on humans, bestowing

13224-693: Was represented within a concept art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters , and Kaneko himself acknowledges similarities between his films and MonsterVerse films where the scrapped 2011 project Gamera 3D by Yoshimitsu Banno served as one of predecessors of the 2014 film Godzilla . According to Jared Krichevsky, "Shimo" appeared in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was partially inspired by Barugon. Shusuke Kaneko utilized some aspects of Showa Gamera and his Heisei Gamera trilogy for GMK such as " submarine within kaiju's body" from Gamera vs. Jiger , and Kaneko reused ideas which he originally wanted for

13340-499: Was to deal with budgetary problems and the Six-Company Agreement to differentiate from the Godzilla franchise. Due to the agreement and the direction to differentiate from Toho, Gamera's characteristics such as to breathe traditional non-atomic fire , occasional quadrupedalism , his personality as both a friendly creature and a hero rather than Godzilla 's theme to represent a " god of destruction ", Material choices for suits and miniature models were devised to avoid duplicates with

13456-484: Was to prevent an oncoming catastrophe caused by environmental degradations and to warn the humanity. After sealing the Phoenix, an immortal but suicidal, fiery entity constantly suffering due to its immortality, the new Gamera sacrificed himself to save the Earth from further destruction caused by harmful sunlight triggered by air pollutions , following a similar fate with the Phoenix where both monsters cannot die for

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