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This updated second volume of JAPANESE MONSTERS UNMADE features all your old, unfilmed favorites from the Sixties and Seventies, including BATMAN MEETS GODZILLA, GAMERA VS. TWO-HEADED MONSTER W, AFTER JAPAN SINKS, the Toho-Hammer co-production of NESSIE, and 1974’s banned panic movie GREAT PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS. Also in the mix are entries from TERROR OF THE LOST TOKUSATSU FILMS like THE FLYING BATTLESHIP and INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN TORCH. New entries include the Bollywood Godzilla-inspired GOGOLA (1966), South Korea’s SPACE MONSTER WANGMAGWI (1967), the little-know Toho short film GOOD LUCK, GODZILLA! (1967), the King Brothers canceled co-production of FROM THE DEPTHS, the wild Italian re-cut of LEGEND OF DINOSAURS AND MONSTER BIRDS: TERREMOTO 10 GRADO, Baragon’s illegal cameo in India’s 1978 caveman movie AADI YUG, and even the likely apocryphal South Korean monster mash HIPPIE CARNAGE (1973)!