Japan Dino

LEGENDS OF DINOSAURS AND MONSTER BIRDS-1977-In a lengthy pre-credits intro a woman hiking in “The Sea of Trees” forest stumbles upon an underground cave and sees a giant egg hatching. She's helped by some lumberjacks when they find her running and yelling incoherently. Later a geologist named Arizawa (Tsunehiko Watase) cancels his trip to Mexico to investigate the incident when he hears about it on TV. While exploring there he meets his late father's old friend Sho (Shotaro Hayashi). Some people disappear and livestock becomes deadstock. At a festival, a guy in a cowboy hat sings. The stage falls apart and everybody sees a monster in the water but it's a prank Then 2 of the pranksters are killed by a real monster but nobody believes the 3rd guy’s story until some tourist backs him up. “It's super big news!”. Arizawa’s ex-lover Ahiko (Nobiko Sawa) and her friend Junko are scuba diving in the area until Junko is bitten in half by the monster. Later while they are trapped in a cave, a prehistoric flying bird shows up and the mayor and the army blow everyone up shooting at the creature.

Arizawa and Ahiko escape to the forest but the long necked dinosaur is there to terrorize them. Then the flying creature shows up. They fight and a volcano erupts on the mountain. I think the couple survive...? Ahiko’s pathetic screaming in the finale really annoying. Pretty cheap Japanese production directed by Junji Kurata. It was a big hit in Russia.

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