Mosu-rah-ah! Mos-su-rah!

Updated on August 19, 2009 By Ken Begg 2 Comments

(Out this week? How come I never heard this was coming out?!)  Finally, the original Mothra hits DVD!

Also includes H-Man and Battle in Outer Space, all for under $20.  Sweet!

I believe all the classic Toho dai kaijus are now out from one company or other.

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  • P Stroud

    Oh Lordy. I was about 12-13 years old when those movies came out. I watched BIOS on a Sat matinee and snuck in for the second showing. Along with The Mysterians it was the best sci-fi cinema since Forbidden Planet. I own a DVD transfer of a BIOS VHS tape, but it’s pan-and-scan. (I hope someone rains napalm on those movie execs who do pan-and-scan transfers.) I saw Mothra, also sneaking in again. But I only got to see the H-man once, drat!

    Now I see that all three are in original format. Whohoo! I just hope that they didn’t redo the dubbing like they did for the Mysterians cause they really hacked it up. I have a VHS tape of the Mysterians with the original dubbed sound track and another DVD I picked up with a new dubbed track. The new track sounds like the voice actors were trying to be funny. It’s better to watch it in Japanese with english subtitles. Please, God, don’t let them screw up this one up.

  • “Now I see that all three are in original format. Whohoo! I just hope that they didn’t redo the dubbing like they did for the Mysterians cause they really hacked it up.”

    Actually, that was the original dub. Toho would sell the rights to their films to American distributors, and provide an “international” English dub track. These invaribly would be pretty bad, and the American company would whip up it’s own dub track. These were the ones that played during the theatrical and (more important) TV showings, and thus the ones we grew up hearing.

    However, in the DVD age, the rights to those American dubs apparently aren’t available, or maybe the notoriously techy Toho doesn’t want them included on the DVDs. So Sony, Classic Media, et al, is stuck with the Toho dubs. So aside from the Toho dubs generally being inferior, they perhaps ever worse aren’t the voices we remember from when we were kids.