talesfromweirdland: Momoko Kōchi and friend in HALF HUMAN (1955). I’ve been fascinated wi

talesfromweirdland:

Momoko Kōchi and friend in HALF HUMAN (1955).

I’ve been fascinated with this film for years because 1) it was Ishiro Honda’s direct follow up to Godzilla (and had much of the same cast), and 2) the original film, except for a butchered up version that made it to home video, was never officially released in any form, and there’s actually talk that because the film was targeted for a protest, it may not even have been screened in theaters in Japan at all. 

When I posted about this movie, someone brought up that there was an ultra-weird subtitled version of the film on archive.org. It was clearly not an official release because at the bottom, there’s a blurred out time counter. Where the archive.org version of this film came from (a film that, I must tell you, was never released on DVD or home video) may be the biggest mystery of all.