Daikaiju Mono Trailer Delivers Delirious Giant Monster Wrestling Action from the Director of Calamari Wrestler
If you thought the trailer for Monster Trucks was absurd, just wait until you feast your eyeballs on the trailer for Daikaiju Mono. Oh, Japan, don’t ever stop being so delightfully insane.
The director of such loony (even by Japanese standards) fare as The Calamari Wrestler, The Rug Cop, and Executive Koala is back and dipping his toes once more in giant monster territory. Can your heart stand the giant monster vs. pro wrestling titan action of Daikaiju Mono, or simply Giant Monster Mono for us Westerners?
Seems like it has been a few years since there was nutty news to report regarding gonzo Japanese genre filmmaker Minoru Kawasaki; the last I heard of him was the (IMO) greatly disappointing The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit. That was way back in 2008. Twitch Film reports that Kawasaki is finally back to once again put his trademark spin on the giant monster genre with hopefully better results than his ill-fated The X from Outer Space reboot.
Poking fun at traditional Japanese giant monster movies while clearly drawing some satirical influence from Attack on Titan, Daikaiju Mono sees Japan once again under siege by a man-in-suit monster, so the powers-that-be fight back by supersizing New Japan Pro Wrestling star Kota Ibushi to lay the smackdown on its rudy poo kaiju ass.
Synopsis:
Giant monster MONO appears from deep under the ground and starts preying on humans. As the man-eating monster terrorizes the city, a scientist changes a human into a giant Titan in order to battle against MONO. A fierce battle between kaiju MONO and Titan begins.
Fierce battle? More like an all-out man vs. monster wrestling match the likes of which Kaiju Big Battel could have only dreamed of.
Giant Monster Mono is slated for release this July, just in time for another certain iconic giant monster to make his resurgence.
Here’s the trailer that promises to be the craziest 90 seconds you’ll spend all day. It’s in Japanese, but you don’t need subtitles to figure out what’s going on. We’re talking about a movie where a giant man in a Speedo German suplexes a rubber monster. What more would you expect from the filmmaker who makes movies about pro wrestling squids, soccer goalie crabs, homicidal koala men in business suits, and hard-boiled cops that fight crime with their cheap toupees?
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