Gamera Films
After the friendly acquisition in 2004, Kadokawa Pictures quickly went to work on several projects. It approached Toho Company Ltd. about co-producing Godzilla vs. Gamera, but the offer was rejected, so it turned its attention to reviving some of the combined studio’s best known properties since Daiei Film Co. era. In 2005 saw successful releases for both Masaaki Tezuka’s Samurai Commando: Mission 1,549 (Sengoku Jieitai 1,549) and Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War (Yokai Daisenso). As these two films opened in Japan, it revealed that the studio would begin shooting the twelfth Gamera film in July 2005.
Five of their Gamera films were mocked (twice) on Mystery Science Theater 3000. According to Shout! Factory, because of this, they were horrified by the mockery and refused to let Shout release the MST3K versions on home video. Brian Ward (one of the members of Shout) even stated in his own words that "The Japanese just aren't into their man-in-suit flicks being parodied or mocked in any way." However, thanks to Kadokawa selling the rights to a U.S. company (also according to Brian Ward), all the five episodes were released by Shout! Factory on August 2, 2011.
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