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'''''Gamera: The Giant Monster''''' ('''''Giant Monster Gamera''''', or '''''Daikaiju Gamera'',''') was produced and released in Japan by Daei studios in 1965. The film originally started life as a story about giant rats, but when the rats that were going to be used ended up being unuseable due to fleas and other reasons, the filmmakers retooled the script changed the monster(s) into a giant turtle. The film was shot in black and white, one of the last giant monster movies to be filmed like this, and is one of only two movies to portray '''[[Gamera]]''' in a villanous manner, with the other one being its immediate sequel, Gamera vs. Barugon. Giant Monster Gamera was directed by Noriaki Yuasa, who also directed the special effects.

In the Arctic Circle, during the cold war, a Russian plane carrying an atomic bomb is shot down by US aircraft. The bomb explodes and releases an ancient terror that has been burried under the snow and ice for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. No, it is not a [[The Thing (film)|shape-shifting alien]], but instead the giant tusked turtle Gamera, also known as the Devil's Envoy, from the continent of Atlantis ([[Continuity Nod|yes, the whole Atlantis thing was used]] ''[[Older Than They Think|way]]'' [[Gamera: GuardianofGuardian Theof the Universe|before 1995]]) who destroys the Chidori Maru, a research boat and then disappears. Only three people from the ship survive. Later, in different parts of the world, a strange object is seen flying in the sky. No one knows what it is, but soon Gamera makes his appearance when he attacks a lighthouse in Japan. During his attack on the lighthouse, he saves a young boy, named Toshio Sakurai, from falling to his death. Toshio, who already has a fascination with turtles, proclaims Gamera to be a good turtle, despite the monster's later actions proving otherwise.