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Russ Tamblyn was horrible in this film.

posted 11 years ago by wolverineland
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I liked this movie but man, didn't Russ Tamblyn's acting seem really wooden and almost robotic at times delivering his lines? He seemed really standoffish with the cast as well, especially with Kumi Mizuno who played his assistant and "love interest?". Nick Adams and Kumi Mizuno had chemistry together and made a cute couple in "Godzilla vs. Monster Zero" and this film's prequel "Frankenstein Conquers The World." If Nick Adams would have lived and been in this film, he would have made it much better than Tamblyn.

[–] raceface 11 years ago

Is there anyone who is good in this movie??

[–] ghost_hat 11 years ago

Nick Adams died in 1968, after this movie was already released.
I thought Tamblyn did fine, especially compared to many westerners in Japanese movies who are obvious non-actors filling the spot of "random foreign guy".

[–] Blueghost 11 years ago

Well, the other actors were speaking Japanese. If you're an actor how do you react to that? That, and the director was Japanese, so he was taking his directions via a translator.

[–] Eric-62-2 10 years ago

Tamblyn admitted in a 2004 interview (his first ever about the movie) that he basically phoned it in because at the time he was semi-retired from acting and only took the job because of the chance to go to Japan and do some independent shooting of art house films which he did while he was on location there. And he admitted that he could never get close to any of the production people because there was indeed just the one English speaking interpreter on the set.

Adams to be sure did have better on-screen chemistry with Kumi Mizuno but that may have been aided by the fact that the two were having an affair off-screen that was directly responsible for his marriage breaking up.