Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

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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 one 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...

This is Patrol Boat Nojima.

Emergency!

The Kairyu-Maru has run aground!

Run aground? It's more than

3,000 meters deep here!

But we have...

We have run aground on something.

Here!

Any radiation leak?

We're investigating.

What the hell...

Stop the engines!

Those a vailable, check the leaks

and bulkheads.

But unless ordered otherwise,

you are prohibited from entering

the cargo area!

Bring the light here!

Hope it's not somebody'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 Kairyu-Maru has run aground

east of the Philippines Deep.

Longitude, East 130 degrees 5 minutes,

latitude North 4 degrees 30 minutes.

The vessel suffered only

minor leakage,

and there's no threat of foundering.

A special rescue squad

is being dispatched immediately

by air via...

Do you believe in a civilization

sunk under the sea?

You mean like Atlantis or

the Continent of Mu?

Right, with science more

advanced than ours.

Maybe it's related to the drifting

atoll in the Pacific.

What do you mean, an atoll?

It seems to be approaching Japan.

I understand 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 immense.

The joint investigation by Yashima

Marine Insurance...

Please let me be a part of it.

Marine Agency personnel intervening

in the private sector?

I'm aware of the rules.

But being left out of the initial

investigation is frustrating.

That's why I want to find out

what that really was.

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 lot of commotion

in the background.

I hope he's not going to ask me

to go to the island.

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?

Does Mr. Kusanagi drink?

He drinks pure rice sake,

bourbon and rum.

He's not fond of Scotch.

This is Mr. Kusanagi's daughter.

I'm Asagi.

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, before you...

I got bored with my vacation,

and so I took the liberty of helping

with the housework.

If a non-paying job is okay,

I've got 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, with a girl

staying home alone?

I trust you. You're a big girl.

I don't think that's the point.

From around Christmas Island

to the Gilbert Isles,

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 Black Current

from the north of the Equator Stream.

From the point it was last encountered,

and the speed of the Black Current,

you can calculate the

approximate location.

It should be in this area.

What do the Nagasaki Police

want with me?

We went to Professor Hirata's

research lab

at Kyushu University, and

they mentioned you.

Is it about Himegami Island?

We've had reports of a rare big,

young bird seen there.

Yes, that's why Professor Hirata

and his team went there,

but we can't contact them.

Did anything happen there?

Well, now, we don't really know.

A sailor disappeared.

The last message he

radioed in was "bird".

Bird?

Hey, is anybody here?

Hey! If you're here, answer me.

Hey, is anybody here?

What the heck happened here?

How many people were on this island?

Six families... seventeen people.

And they all disappeared

because of some bird?

It's hard to believe, but...

It's impossible.

The only lifeform which could

do such a thing 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 attacked us in the dark?

I'd like at least 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 left to find food.

And if we move, that food will be us!

If that crosses the sea,

the casualties will be immense.

A bird?

Is it really a bird?

It's not just a bird!

Its wingspan is fifteen meters.

And it attacks people!

I don't believe it.

If it's that big, the JASDF

Kasuga base radar

must have detected it, and be on alert.

The JASDF?

Oh, the Self-Defense Forces.

We're not going to make it!

Anyway, please alert all

the necessary parties.

Can you catch up?

Wouldn't that be dangerous?

The ones in danger are the islanders.

Here we go.

Please!

Draw its attention to us,

away from the island.

Hey, it's not that simple!

You're not the pilot, are you?

Hey!

It's the Self-Defense Forces.

Look!

At that island.

I knew there would be more than one.

A village on Himegami Island

of the Goto Archipelago

is believed to have been

attacked by birds.

The birds seem to be hiding on

Himegami Island at present.

The Self-Defences 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 meters long and

forty-five meters wide.

How can such a gigantic thing

be drifting like a weed?

The radiation count?

Extremely low.

It won't be hazardous to us.

Be careful.

Did you find one too?

What are they?

They're all over this atoll.

As if deliberately laid out

to be found.

Hey, look at this.

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!

We'll find clothes for you

to change into!

Professor Hirata's death

is a shock to me.

Please understand!

I'm sorry that we disregarded

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