Jiro
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
Jiro
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
Farmer
일본의 전국시대. 주민들은 황폐한 땅에서 어렵게 수확한 식량으로 한해 한해를 넘기는 빈촌에 살고 있다. 이 빈촌엔 보리 수확이 끝날 무렵이면 어김없이 산적들이 찾아와 모든 식량을 모조리 약탈해 간다. 싸워도 애원해도 소용이 없었다. 가만히 있을 수만은 없던 촌장의 결단으로 사무라이들을 모집하는데, 이들은 풍부한 전쟁 경험을 가진 시마다 칸베에를 포함한 7명이었다. 시마다의 지휘하에 마을은 방위태세를 갖추고 전투훈련도 시작한다. 이윽고 산적들의 공격이 시작되어 치열한 사투가 벌어진다.
