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This DVD contains Mothra, H-Man and Battle in Outer Residence – This DVD has both Japanese and English language versions of the movies & are widescreen transfers. I expected these to be dapper & crisp letterboxed actually – in Tohoscope & that is what they are.

All 3 of these movies were made by the people who brought us Godzilla such as Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya and music by Akira Ifukube.

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MOTHRA (1961) would be the main attraction starring Jerry Ito and the 1 race Peanuts as they were called. Mothra rescues them after being kidnapped by gangsters. A exquisite movie done with style and taste.

BATTLE IN OUTER Plot is a loose follow up to The Mysterians minus any monsters but it is a spectacular effects and an endless array of laser ray light expose with rocket ships, UFOs and other spot crafts. Grand special effects during its day.

The H-MAN was the one I watched first since I hadn’t seen this in ages..it is relatively short (under 90 minutes) and it basically about a person who becomes an H-Man (hydrogen man) as a result of hydrogen bomb testing – the h-man is a greenish blob that eats other people turning them into oozing blob monsters which also appear in a ‘ghost’ like beget. I watched the English language version and the transfer is nice, and the film is ok,basically it is a lesser title, but detached fun to seek. Substantial effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and lots of heavenly Japanese ladies. More or less a Japanese version of the Blob..

All 3 were on VHS in fat frame versions and were somewhat obscure. Now we can accumulate them all in letterboxed transfers and study them how they were originally meant to be seen.

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The DVD packaging for this is abominable. 3 discs with each movie stacked ON TOP of each other like a layered cake or pancakes. This is an easy contrivance to wound the DVD’s.

The movies themselves are gargantuan but the packaging is unpleasant. All three movies are sitting on top of each other in a single case. They could of at least made it a double dvd case so only one would be stacked on another. Other than that they came in helpful condition and the movies are large. All are in modern TohoScope ratios, Englis running time 259 minutes and Japanese running time 277 minutes, English subs, English and Japanese Languages. Special Features are commentaries on Mothra and Battle in Outer Situation by Authors and Japanese SciFi Historians Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski.
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