Tokyo S.O.S Ending: The Cells

[G-fan4life]

I just finished rewatching Tokyo S.O.S for prolly the 5th or 6th time. I watched the end of the movie and past the credits.

Can anyone tell me what the purpose of that G-cells and Biotechnology lab scene was all bout, it just seems like a random little bit that they threw in there for fun.

[omgitsgodzilla]

Basically, they're gonna try cloning. I can only assume from the DNA tanks and the voice saying something about a "bio-formation" experiment that they're trying to create monsters (perhaps to be cybernetically enhanced) from DNA, aka cloning a la Jurassic Park.

[G-fan4life]

would have been a better movie than FW

[Eunectes]

I posted something similar to this and it got locked. HERP DERP

[Kameba90]

I think the idea is to imply that something is going on, even if we don't know just what, so that the film ends on kind of a cliffhanger.

[edgaguirus]

It's another instance of Toho leaving an opening for future films.

[Tohosaurus]

would have been a better movie than FW

Truf.

[Gorosaurus Rex]

That stuff with all the robot kaiju would have made for a great 50th anniversary film. Kinda wish we got that.

[Showa Gyaos]

That stuff with all the robot kaiju would have made for a great 50th anniversary film. Kinda wish we got that.

I wonder if Toho actually considered making a Kiryu trilogy before shifting to Godzilla: Final Wars?

[Terrier]

In Godzilla against Mechagodzilla, there is this scenne with the extinct animal, wich was actually a robot replica, and used DNA trough a computer, so the species was bring it back to life... kinda. Then we have the final scenne from Tokyo S.O.S. with lots of DNA from diferent monsters... In other words, we are screwed.

[Kubo]

That stuff with all the robot kaiju would have made for a great 50th anniversary film. Kinda wish we got that.

I wonder if Toho actually considered making a Kiryu trilogy before shifting to Godzilla: Final Wars?

I'm sure the idea crossed their minds at some point. I would have been curious to see it play out, definitely.

[omgitsgodzilla]

would have been a better movie than FW

Truf.

Agreed, and three cheers for Chapelle's Show.

[kpa]

It's meant to show man will never learn his lesson or something to that extent.

What Tyler said. One of the main story ideas in TOKYO SOS is that mankind was wrong to use the remains of the original Godzilla. This is why the modern Godzilla attacked Japan, and the Shobojin demand that Godzilla 54's bones be returned to their resting place at sea. When the Prime Minister orders Kiryu to be used one last time it sets up that Japan got the message and will stop doing what has caused all the problems in the first place. But the last scene in the movie shows that they're still experimenting with the monsters' remains... so the lesson wasn't learned and the cycle will just repeat all over again.

That stuff with all the robot kaiju would have made for a great 50th anniversary film. Kinda wish we got that.

I wonder if Toho actually considered making a Kiryu trilogy before shifting to Godzilla: Final Wars?

The answer to that is definitely "no". Toho always hoped the 50th anniversary film would get an international release so that meant a standalone story that audiences could easily follow, not a part 3 wrapping up two movies that weren't widely seen outside Japan.

Toho plans the movies one at a time, so GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA wasn't even conceived as part 1 of a 2 part story. Producer Shogo Tomiyama said Toho was originally planning another standalone Godzilla movie with Mothra for 2003, but director Masaaki Tezuka pitched a story treatment treatment for a direct sequel featuring Mothra and Kiryu. The producers liked it so that's what they decided to do. Both Tezuka and Tomiyama said the second film would conclude the story, so no trilogy was ever planned.

[Gojira-Fan]

Toho always hoped the 50th anniversary film would get an international release

So, by international release, do you mean theatrically?

[Showa Gyaos]

^Yes he does. But what countries they had in mind, I am unsure of.

[kpa]

Toho always hoped the 50th anniversary film would get an international release

So, by international release, do you mean theatrically?

Exactly. Toho had hopes the distributors in other countries would license the anniversary film for theatrical release, just like Sony did for GODZILLA 2000.

Obviously, that didn't pan out.

[omgitsgodzilla]

Maybe if it had fewer subplots, no mutant crap, better music and wasn't edited like a bad music video it would have... I'd have loved to see Godzilla in theaters. The closest I've actually come was the Gojira re-release...

[Tohosaurus]

Maybe if it had fewer subplots, no mutant crap, better music and wasn't edited like a bad music video it would have... I'd have loved to see Godzilla in theaters. The closest I've actually come was the Gojira re-release...

This is pretty much how I feel about it. It's a fun movie to watch with friends, but on its own it kinda falls apart. As with DAM, they threw everything but the kitchen sink at it (even more so than DAM, what with the mutant subplot). A lot of the time Godzilla films lack enough and it's more like they threw in the beginnings of a plot. This one almost tried to do too much, even with over two hours of movie.

[Gojira-Fan]

With Final Wars, it's like they made a bad fan fiction into a movie.

[Mecha-Anguirus]

I always felt that the ending was hopeful, showing us that Godzilla will never die sort of thing. Well, now that i think about it, that's kind of perverse, but then again, I thought the end of Jurassic Park was hopeful too...