Oddly enough, there are neither dinosaurs nor monster birds in a movie named Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds. They eventually battle and then fall into an erupting Mount Fuji. It turns out that not one but two kaiju are on the loose: a plesiosaurus and a rhamphorhynchus. There’s even a gory scene where a headless horse is found hidden in a tree. The film takes inspiration from the aforementioned shark movie, having attacks on boaters and swimmers and a build of the tension until the monster is unleashed. Therefore, this was the perfect movie for Toei to appeal to not just the Japanese movie audience, but one across the world. At the same time, everyone had grown obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster. After all, who knew monster movies better than them?įilming started the very same month that Jaws was released overseas. Opened box, with the album still in the packaging.įront of the album, unsealed and without obi.īack of the album, unsealed and without obi.Toei president Shigeru Okada attended several film festivals and trade fairs in America and as he saw the way the film business was shifting toward blockbusters like Jaws, he felt that Japan should follow that trend. The unopened box that the album arrived in.

The photos were taken on November 6, 2019. Monster Birds Original Soundtrack (CINK-76).Here is a photo gallery of my copy of Legend of Dinosaurs 'Legend of Distant Blood' and 'Final Chapter' Additionally, a synth cue heard during the light phenomena scene (just before the Rhamphorhynchus attack scene) couldn't be included on the album for the same reason. Therefore, they weren't included on the album.

The country songs heard in the film, performed by The Last Longhorn Band, couldn't be located. While no cue numbers are given for track 3, the booklet states that it's the equivalent of M3 and M4. The songs for the film ('Legend of Distant Blood' and 'Final Chapter') were recorded at Taihei Studio and mixed for the film at Sound City on March 20, 1977. The score was recorded on Maat Sound City, located at Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Monster Birds' (can also be translated as 'Legend of Dinosaurs.as 'The Legend of the Dinosaurs', but it's now widely known as 'Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds', which is nearly identical to the original Japanese title, 'Legend of Dinosaurs The film was initially released in the U.S. Death Fight of the Dinosaur and Monster Bird (SE)

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