It's disappointing that they have War of the Gargantuas but not the far superior film it's essentially a sequel to, Frankenstein Conquers the World. Unfortunately, the English dub glosses over the Frankenstein connection in favor of the "Gargantua" label, perhaps because American audiences would've been confused by referring to Bigfoot-like creatures as Frankensteins.
FCtW is not only one of the very best kaiju films -- dark and moody and sad, a commentary on the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, with an unusually humanized and sympathetic kaiju and a great Akira Ifukube score -- but it's also significant for the introduction of Baragon, also seen in Destroy All Monsters and the 2001 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. So it's got more of a connection to the rest of the Toho kaiju universe than WotG does, since the only later film to reference WotG is Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla with a brief stock-footage cameo by Gaira ("Green Gargantua") in its opening minutes. So FCtW would've been a better film to include in this marathon all around.
FCtW is not only one of the very best kaiju films -- dark and moody and sad, a commentary on the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, with an unusually humanized and sympathetic kaiju and a great Akira Ifukube score -- but it's also significant for the introduction of Baragon, also seen in Destroy All Monsters and the 2001 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. So it's got more of a connection to the rest of the Toho kaiju universe than WotG does, since the only later film to reference WotG is Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla with a brief stock-footage cameo by Gaira ("Green Gargantua") in its opening minutes. So FCtW would've been a better film to include in this marathon all around.
