1980~ Calbee Gamera Commercial

Randomly came across a vintage Calbee commercial featuring the great Gamera - Showa era, too! Can't get much better than this. The joys of having a largely Japanese Twitter feed.

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For some context, Calbee is a large food brand who's most prominent in Japan. They've done plenty of crossover promotions, from Batman to Evangelion. Small world, huh? Read all about it.

It's hard to tell exactly when this ad was run, as judging by what odd and obscure photos I've come across, plenty of promotional (non-screen used) Gamera suits existed up until the Heisei era reboot trilogy. I think it's most likely the "UchuGame" suit created for 1980's Gamera: Super Monster, based on the suit's glass eyes and the overall look of the commercial. A super obscure Japanese upload on Wikia claims I'm right, so we'll go with that. Who knows though, most vintage Gamera suits looked about the same.

Neat!