Leave baby dinosaurs alone!

I craved some JAPANESE CINEMA tonight, so I popped Haruyasu Noguchi's "DAIKYOJŪ GAPPA" into the DVD player.
Famously the only TOKUSATSU KAIJU (special effects monster film) from NIKKATSU CORPORATION (home to maverick crime film director SEIJUN SUZUKI), "Gappa" begins with an expedition from Japan stumbling upon a baby dinosaur egg deep within a cavern on mysterious Obelisk Island.
If the expedition would have taken one look at the cracking dinosaur egg and turned around and left the island, Nikkatsu would have had no movie.
Luckily for kaiju film lovers (but not so fortunately for Tokyo residents), the members of the expedition take the baby dinosaur that hatched back to Japan -- much to the despair of the island's residents, played by Japanese actors in black face.
Of course, stealing a baby dinosaur is never a good idea, and soon, the baby's much larger parents fly to Japan to retrieve their offspring.
Much destruction of Tokyo ensues before baby and parents are reunited.
OK, I admit "Daikyojū Gappa" won't win any awards. This 1967 film did make me smile after a busy day at work, though, so it was well worth watching.