"Gamera Challenges A Godzilla Look-Alike Contest Loser! No More Mr. Nice Turtle!"	Year of Release: 1966 Directed by: Shigeo Tanaka Running Time: Approx. 101 minutes Rating: Not Rated Listing on the A.K.A. Page: YES! Click Here! A Second Opinion: Popcorn Pictures Buy it on VHS at: Amazon.com. My Rating:

Kasa Kay- Strapping young lad who goes with Omura and some other guy on an expedition. They are searching for an opal that Kasa's older brother hid on New Guinea during World War II. He's partly responsible for Barugon's appearance on the Japanese mainland.

Kara- Native New Guinea girl who knows how to defeat Barugon. She falls in love with Kasa Kay (and apparently enjoys the taste of blood).

Omura- His whole life revolves around greed and killing people to get what he wants. Eaten by Barugon.

The Other Guy- I never could pick up on his name. Finds the opal and starts screaming what he's going to buy with the money he'll get for it. He's stung by a scorpion and dies.

Kasa Kay's Brother- Couldn't get his name either. Funds the expedition for the opal. When he discovers that Omura "killed" his brother he starts beating him with a pair of crutches. Killed by Omura.

Gamera- A giant turtle with fiery breath and rocket-powered flight capabilities. He's frozen by Barugon but thaws out and defeats his reptilian foe.

Barugon- Sorry, not the cool Toho one, but a terribly dumb lizard that sprays an ice beam from it's tongue, and a rainbow heat beam from it's back spikes. Gamera drowns him.

Well upon hearing the title you think, hey the Toho Baragon is in this? But then you see that it's not Baragon, but Barugon. Despite the dumb monsters with highly annoying roars this first sequel to "Gamera" does have it's moments. The film opens with Gamera escaping from the capsule in space (in the previous film, Japanese scientists somehow put Gamera in a rocket and sent him out to space to get rid of him) and returns to Japan to cause some damage. Meanwhile Kasa Kay's brother sets up an expedition to recover a large opal that he had found on New Guinea back during World War II. Then Kasa Kay, Omura, and some Other Guy go to New Guinea.
They have a run in with some islanders and run into the nearby forest. Eventually they find the cave where the opal was hidden. The "other guy" finds the opal and starts hopping around and screaming with joy. Unfortunately he's too excited to realize that a scorpion is on his leg. The nasty little arachnid stings him and he dies. Omura takes the opal and throws some grenades into the cave, leaving Kasa Kay for dead. Kasa Kay survives and awakens back in the village where the islanders previously tried to stop he and the others from going into the cave. He tells Kara of the opal and then she tells him that it was really an egg. The two go back to Japan to warn the authorities.
In the meantime Omura makes it back to Japan on a boat. He leaves the "opal" under a KFC chicken lamp err..... I mean an infra-red lamp, which causes the it to hatch. Barugon makes it onto dry land and starts tearing up everything. When the army tries to stop him he freezes all the tanks with his ice beam and destroys a bunch of rocket silos with his rainbow heat beam. Gamera arrives on the scene and puts a nasty gouge in Barugon's head. This hit only infuriates Barugon and causes it to put Gamera into a deep freeze. Seeing that Gamera failed to win and all, the Japanese military goes into action again with two operations. The first one, "Operation Diamond" consisted of irradiating a huge diamond to attract Barugon to a lake and to drown him.
It goes according to plan until Omura steals the diamond and is eaten by Barugon in the process. Then the military tries "Operation Rear-View Mirror." This one consisted of making a huge satellite dish made of mirrors. The dish would reflect Barugon's heat beam back at him and hopefully kill him. Well everything seems to work out fine but Barugon's still alive and has now "learned" not to use his rainbow heat beam anymore. Well it looks like Japan has had it when suddenly Gamera thaws out and returns to settle his score with Barugon. Gamera takes his time and beats up on the weakened Barugon for a few minutes. Then Gamera, with his jaws firmly around Barugon's neck, drags his foe into the lake , thus defeating Barugon and saving mankind (well Japan anyways). And say do you remember Kasa Kay and Kara? They're moving back to New Guinea to live a greed and kaiju free life!

Engineer 1: "Oh, hey... what's that?"
Engineer 2: "Huh?"
Engineer 3: "Hey, it's Gamera!"
All 3 Engineers: "GAMERA?!"

Narrator: "Gamera loves play. He left Japan as suddenly as he had arrived."

Proffesor: "So in theory, Barugon will be made to die by his own rainbow."
General: "Hmmmm... how very fitting."