Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) on Netflix
NR19991h 48mActionDramaFantasy
Hyper Gyaos return, and the Japanese government orders Gamera destroyed. Ayana Hirasaka, whose parents Gamera killed, raises a hatched creature she calls Iris to take her revenge.
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Three years after Gamera defeated the Legion, the Gyaos come back as Hyper Gyaos, and the ornithologist Mayumi Nagamine goes back to aid the Japanese government. Gamera fights the flying creatures at Shibuya, killing many people in the crossfire, and the government orders his destruction. Ayana Hirasaka, a teenage girl, lost her parents to Gamera years ago. She finds a stone egg inside the temple at Asuka, and the creature that hatches from it she names Iris, after her dead cat. Wearing an orichalcum magatama amulet, she links with Iris and intends to raise it to strike at Gamera. Asagi Kusanagi, once psychically bound to Gamera, and Nagamine set out to reach Ayana.
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- Yû Koyamaas Tatsunari Moribe
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
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- Gamera 3's production was delayed and its plot was deliberately written as horror, because the kaiju genre had declined in popularity while horror films, especially Ring, were popular with children at the time.
- Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki said the destruction of Godzilla in his 2023 film Godzilla Minus One was inspired by Shinji Higuchi's special effects work on Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris.
- Gamera 3's popularity and its plot, which made Gamera a threat to humanity, contributed to cancelled sequels and anime projects; it took Kadokawa Corporation 17 years to produce a new Gamera film, Gamera Rebirth, in 2023.
- Gamera 3 was the first Gamera film that director Shusuke Kaneko received a screenwriting credit on; he co-wrote it with Kazunori Ito, who had written the two previous 1990s Gamera films.
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