A lost early film in this genre is titled The Great Buddha Arrival. In a film in this genre, a snack bar owner is aided by Fat Guevara and his archer sister to rescue his daughter from sewers near the Han River. The Lucky Dragon 5 incident inspired a film in this genre that opens with an SOS signal from a fishing boat. That film in this genre ends with the use of an “Oxygen Destroyer” after depth charges and an electric fence fail. Bong Joon-ho’s film The Host is in this genre. A (*) 1954 film that pioneered this genre was directed by Ishirō Honda, who was inspired by a political movement against nuclear testing, which disturbs the title reptile antagonist. For 10 points, name this genre of films that feature large characters such as Mothra and Godzilla. ■END■
ANSWER: monster movies [accept creature and equivalents; accept kaiju or gwoemul; prompt on science fiction or action; prompt on horror; prompt on disaster movies; prompt on Godzilla until read with “what is the genre of that film?”; reject “alien”]
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