Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦)

PLUTONIUM TRANSPORT SHIP "KAIRYU-MARU"

MARINE SAFETY AGENCY PATROL BOAT "NOJIMA"

What brings you here at this hour, Captain?

I started thinking and couldn't sleep.

If anything should happen to the transport,

the Pacific will become the ocean of death.

With the ton of plutonium on that ship,

you could make more than one hundred Nagasaki-type A-bombs.

No need to take the trouble of making bombs.

Inhaling only one millionth of a gram is sufficient to cause cancer.

Japan's only a little further. Let's hope nothing goes awry.

This is Patrol Boat Nojima.

Emergency! The Kairyu-Maru has run aground!

Run aground?! It's more than 1.8 miles deep here!

But we have run aground on something.

Hand it to me.

- Any radiation Ieaks? - We're investigating.

What the hell?

Stop all engines!

Those available, check the leaks and bulkheads.

But unless ordered otherwise,

you are prohibited from entering the cargo area.

Bring the Iight here!

I hope it's not some other country's submarine.

It's an atoll. It's gigantic!

You're moving?

Didn't you stop the engines?

Well...

The atoll seems to have moved away on its own.

Captain!

It's right beneath us now.

Such an atoll is impossible.

THE GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE

The Kairyu-Maru has run aground east of the Philippines Deep.

Longitude, 130 degrees 5 minutes East, latitude, 4 degrees 80 minutes North.

The vessel suffered only minor Ieakage, and there's no threat of foundering.

A special rescue squad is being dispatched immediately by air.

PLUTONIUM SHIP DAMAGED BY HIT-AND-RUN ATOLL

MARINE SAFETY AGENCY REPORTS NO RADIATION LEAK

MYSTERIOUS STREAK OF MARINE ACCIDENTS CONTINUES

MARINE SAFETY AGENCY ORGANIZES lNVESTIGATION

WITNESSES TESTIFY ON MYSTERIOUS COLLISIONS

ENORMOUS BLAST DURING INVESTIGATION!

A GIANT CREATURE? MYSTERY IN THE PACIFIC

Do you believe in a civilization sunk under the sea?

You mean Iike Atlantis or the Continent of Mu?

Right. With science more advanced than ours.

Maybe it's related to that drifting atoll in the Pacific.

What atoll?

It seems to be approaching Japan.

MARINE SAFETY AGENCY

I get the general picture.

We should be thankful that there was no radiation leakage.

But what if the plutonium had polluted the ocean?

My responsibility is enormous.

Please let me participate in the joint investigation by Yashima Marine Insurance.

Marine Agency personnel intervening in the private sector?

I'm aware of the rules.

But being Ieft out of the initial investigation is frustrating.

That's why I want to find out what it really was.

FUKUOKA MUNICIPAL ZOO

Nagamine! Telephone!

Okay!

Hello?

Hello?

Was it Professor Hirata?

Did he hang up? He seemed to be in a hurry.

- Did he say anything? - No...

But there was a Iot of commotion in the background.

I hope he's not going to ask me to go to the island.

HIMEGAMI ISLAND, GOTO ARCHlPELAGO

Hurry up!

Hurry up!

Hurry, start the engine!

A bird! A bird!

- Excuse me. - Yes?

Mr. Kusanagi's house is near here, isn't it?

Yeah...

Does Mr. Kusanagi Iike a drink?

He drinks pure rice sake, but also bourbon and rum.

He's not fond of Scotch.

This is Mr. Kusanagi's daughter.

I'm Asagi.

KUSANAGI RESIDENCE

- Sorry to be a bother. - Welcome home.

Welcome home.

Mr. Yonemori has offered to cook for us. Isn't it great?

- Is it ready to eat? - Wait a minute. Some starters...

I got bored with my vacation,

and so I took the Iiberty of helping with the housework.

If a non-paying job's okay, I have one for you.

- In the Pacific? - Yes, starting tomorrow.

- Great! - Will it be long?

I really don't know. We're going to look for that drifting atoll.

Aren't you worried, leaving me home alone?

You're a big girl.

I don't think that's the point.

RESEARCH SHIP "KENZAKI"

From around Christmas Island to the Gilbert lsles,

off the coast of the Caroline Islands to the east of the Philippines Deep,

if you line up the witnesses and encounters

in chronological order, it looks like this.

I'm sure the atoll must be drifting on the Japan Current

from the north of the Equator Stream.

From the point it was last encountered and the speed of the Japan Current,

you can calculate its approximate location.

It should be in this area.

What do the Nagasaki police want with me?

We went to Prof. Hirata's research lab at Kyushu University,

and they mentioned you.

Is this about Himegami Island?

We've had reports of a large, rare bird seen there.

Yes, that's why Prof. Hirata and his team went there,

but we can't contact them.

Did anything happen on the island?

Well, now... we don't really know.

A sailor disappeared,

and the Iast message that he radioed in was "bird...

"Bird"?

Hey, is anybody here?

Hey! If you're here, answer me.

Hey, is anybody here?

What the hell happened here?

How many people were on the island?

Six families in total, seventeen people.

And they all disappeared because of some bird?

It's hard to believe, but...

It's impossible. The only Iife form which could do such damage is man.

What about a new species?

- What is it? - Looks like pellets.

- You mean a turd? - A lump of undigested objects.

But they're so big.

It's Professor Hirata's.

Sonar response. Please confirm starboard.

Sonar response. Confirm starboard.

Dr. Nagamine, let's come back tomorrow.

It'll be dark soon.

Maybe it's nocturnal.

All the more reason to leave now!

We're not fully equipped. What if it attacks us in the dark?

I'd like at Ieast a glimpse.

If that's the suspect, it's beyond our jurisdiction.

We have to follow it.

What the hell are you thinking?

- It's Ieft to find food. - And if we move, that food will be us!

If it crosses the sea, the number of casualties will be immense.

NAGASAKI AIRPORT

A bird?

It's a bird?

It's not a normal bird!

Its wingspan is 50 feet.

And it attacks people!

I don't believe it.

If it's that big, the JASDF Kasuga base must've detected it, and be on alert.

The JASDF? The Japan Air Self-Defense Force?

We're not going to make it.

Anyway, please alert all necessary parties.

- Can you catch up to it? - Wouldn't that be dangerous?

The ones in danger are the islanders, not us.

- Here we go. - Thank you.

Draw its attention to us, away from the island.

- Hey, it's not that simple! - You're not the pilot, are you?

It's the Self-Defense Forces.

Look!

At that island.

I knew there'd be more than one.

A village on Himegami Island in the Goto Archipelago

is believed to have been attacked by birds.

The birds seem to be hiding on Himegami Island at present.

The Self-Defense Force are now monitoring the birds' activity.

As for their behavior, ornithologist Dr. Nagamine, discoverer of the bird,

comments as follows:

Was the investigation team eaten by the birds?

Did the birds attack Himegami Island?

They're not birds. They have fangs, and no feathers.

- There is no such bird. - Step back!

Sixty-five yards Iong and fifty yards wide.

How can such a gigantic thing be drifting like a weed?

- What's the radiation count? - Extremely low.

It won't be hazardous to us.

Careful!

Did you find one too?

- What are they? - They're all over this atoll.

Like they've been deliberately laid out to be found.

- Hey, look at this! - What is it?

What is it?

Let's dig it out.

- I'm begging you... - I only agreed to go to the island.

- The same for me! - Anyway, I'm going home.

- We really need you to come with us! - I haven't even changed clothes.

We'll find clothes for you to change into!

Professor Hirata's death is a great shock to me.

Please understand.

I'm sorry that we disregarded your feelings.

We're just trying to save Iives. I'm sorry!

Who do you want me to see?

Commissioner Saito of the Environmental Agency.

Let's dispense with the formalities.

The Cabinet has decided on capturing those life forms.

Not only is it academically important,