Saurians Unleashed Blu-ray

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This is the same release as "Saurians Attack" but with "Wake Up the Death Trerasure" included - this is a chance for you to own all 3 of Tac Miyomoto's earliest works on 1 release together. 

From the mind of the Visual Bandits trilogy director Tac Miyamoto, come three legendary short tokusatsu epics! This trio of 8mm films – inspired by Tsuburaya Productions’ TV series Ultra Q – weave tales of hardship and monsters from beyond, and helped pave the way for the director’s most famous work.

Forest of Heresy (1986) – Miyamoto's final project as a high school student – tells the story of two hunters who, after a time-travel mishap, must escape the jaws of a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex.

Wake Up the Death Treasure (1989) follows Japan being threatened with the reemergence of an experimental World War II mech called “ANT” that wreaks havoc on Tokyo. As the military fights a losing battle to stop the rampaging machine, a mystery surrounding the granddaughter of the mech’s inventor begins to unfold, with the future of Japan hanging in the balance!

Legend of the Desert Illusion (1997) follows four young members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, who become stranded in the middle of a North-African desert within an armored reconnaissance vehicle. But the dunes around them are hiding much more than enemy forces, and they soon discover a horrifying entity lurking beneath the sand.

Bonus Features

• Standard Definition Presentations of all three short films

• Original Japanese audio with optional English subtitles

• “Making of” Featurettes for Wake Up the Death Treasure and Forest of Heresy

• Audio Commentary for Forest of Heresy by Director Tac Miyamoto and Film Historian Elijah Thomas 

• Audio Commentary for Legend of the Desert Illusion by Director Tac Miyamoto and Film Historian Elijah Thomas 

• The Ultimate Mechimeter Film: Wake Up the Death Treasure Video Introduction (10 min)

• Production Galleries for Forest of Heresy and Legend of the Desert Illusion

• Tac Miyamoto and Kaiju Featurette (? min)

• Tac Miyamoto Biography

• Saurian Attack Trailer (1 min)

• Wake Up the Death Treasure US trailer (1 min)

• Visual Bandits & Wake Up The Death Treasure Blu-ray trailer (2 min)

• SRS Trailers

Japan | Science Fiction | 1987 / 1989 / 1997 | 16 minutes / 55 minutes / 28 minutes | 16:9 | Color | Region 0