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Guy who falls down to King Ghidorah's tomb

posted 10 years ago by putrescent_stench
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This is a fairly minor point, but every time I watch this it confuses me. There's a short scene, about 27 minutes in, where a man dressed in a suit stands on one of those statues we see throughout the movie at the sites where the guardian monsters are buried. He wraps his tie around a tree branch, but the ground gives way and he falls down into King Ghidorah's tomb. He screams, but I don't think anything actually happens to him.

Now, what was the point of this scene? Just to reveal where King Ghidorah is buried? Why is he hanging his tie around a tree branch and standing on a statue? Surely he's not trying to kill himself--a tie on a tree branch seems like a precarious combination. I don't understand why they couldn't have just shown Yuri or Takeda falling to find Ghidorah (they had just visited the spot). Anyone else confused by this, or understand what was going on here?

"every time godzilla loses to mothra I die a little bit more"--Godzillaswrath

[–] vankor 10 years ago

Yes I do believe he was trying to commit suicide. I believe the main point of the this scene is to reveal King Ghidorah. I'm not sure, but I believe that the actor is friends with the director Shusuke Kaneko, because that same actor appeared in the 3 Gamera films that Kaneko did before this Godzilla movie, so it could have been an excuse to work together.

[–] jamaal 10 years ago

Yukijiro Hotaro played Inspector Osako in all three of the Heisei Gamera films. He played a similar character in the film Crossfire, all directed by Shusuke Kaneko.

The apparently suicidal salary man played by Mr. Hotaro was a kind of in joke to fans of the Gamera Trilogy.

[–] jamaal 10 years ago

In Gamera, Guardian of the Universe (or more properly, Giant Monster Mid-Air Battle), Yukijiro Hotaro's Osako was a detective in Nagasaki. In Gamera 2: Advent of Legion, he was security guard at a brewery and in Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, his encounters with giant monsters had reduced him to living on the streets and selling magazines and newspapers to passersby.