P Movies

Panther Girl of the Kongo

Pleasant Saturday-matinee-type serial features the gorgeous Phyllis Coates and a handful of overgrown crayfish. A lark, but not exactly what you'd call rompin'-stompin' entertainment.

Patlabor WXIII - The Movie

In a future Tokyo where giant robots are commonplace, people near the waterfront are being attacked by something that isn't leaving a whole lot behind. Two detectives investigate, suspecting terrorists, but instead find a genetically engineered horror that takes the form of a giant fish/reptile mutant. Beautifully animated. Based on the popular TV series Mobile Police Patlabor, though the characters from that show show up only briefly in this movie.

Prince of Space

This feature is probably edited together from a Japanese TV series or serial. Alien warlord Phantom from Krankor invades Earth, only to be opposed by Prince of Space, an apparently normal bootblack who wears a silly ray gun-proof costume and has his own spaceship. Unlike the similar Starman series, no explanation is given for where Prince of Space gets his technology. When Prince of Space returns Phantom's favor and invades Krankor he has to kill a giant monster, basically a 300 foot tall fat guy with big ears.

Pulgasari

The only North Korean giant monster movie had a troubled history, remaining largely unreleased until 1998. The film relates the story of a golem-like creature who is befriended by an oppressed Korean village in the 14th century. The monster defeats the local tyrant, then starts consuming all the metal it can find. Shades of Daimajin.

Reviews: Stomp Tokyo.