Gamera: Guardian of the Universe with Ayako Fujitani

Actress Ayako Fujitani in attendance for post-screening Q&A!

Following a long absence from the big screen, Gamera made a triumphant return to form in time for his 30th anniversary, with upgraded special effects and a more serious tone. Now a guardian deity, Gamera tussles with a new incarnation of his old foe — the flying monster Gyaos — first in Fukuoka, and then in a spectacular aerial battle over Tokyo.

Directed by Shusuke Kaneko and written by Kazunori Itō, with special effects by Shinji Higuchi, the ninth installment in the Gamera series was as a reboot of the franchise, the first in the “Heisei period” that became a trilogy.