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Defense Agency to accompany them to the area. Varan is driven out of the lake with chemicals and attacks the military. Kenji and Yuriko are chased by the monster, but take refuge in a cave where Varan attempts to reach them. At Sugimotoâs suggestion, flares are used to distract Varan. However, Varan sprouts wings and flees into the sea.
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After finding the boy, a giant reptilian monster, whom Kenji identifies as "Varan", surfaces from a nearby lake and attacks the village, crushing the priest in the process. Back in Tokyo, Dr. Sugimoto adds that Varan is a
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suffered burns while filming the climax scene. The crew rented a cheap soundstage and open set when certain scenes could not be filmed at Toho. Evacuation scenes were filmed on the Toho lot, with some offices and sound-stages visible onscreen. Filming lasted 28 days and wrapped in mid-August. Due to
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had arrived in the US, and a request for another came from to Toho. Tanaka approached me, asking me to come up with something, anything." Sekizawa was tasked with writing the screenplay and was told to keep it "basic and simple." Sekizawa's early drafts used the subtitle "Monster of the East." A
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premise of making it in three episodes. Now we had to...somehow combine it all into one continuous story. Of course it did not work. We had a very hard time adjusting it. The desk-side planners just did not understand how the filming side worked.
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467:Tsuruko Kobayashi as Anna Bradley
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2012:Listen to the Voices of the Sea
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