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| starring = | music = Kow Otani〔 | cinematography = Junichi Tozawa〔 | editing = Isao Tomita〔 | studio = Daiei Film〔 | distributor = Toho | released = | runtime = 108 minutes〔 | country = Japan〔 | language = Japanese〔 | budget = | gross = $15,000,000 }} is a 1999 Japanese Kaiju film directed and co-written by Shusuke Kaneko. The film is a sequel to ''Gamera 2: Attack of Legion'' and the eleventh feature film in the ''Gamera'' series, and the third film in the 1990s trilogy of ''Gamera'' films.〔Galbraith, 2008. p.395〕〔 The film stars Ayana Hirasaka (Ai Maeda), an emotionally troubled young girl who forms a psychic bond with a highly aggressive parasitic creature known as Iris that feeds upon her rage and hate for the giant fire-breathing turtle monster called Gamera, who had unwittingly killed Hirsaka's parents. Gamera later is defending Japan from a swarm of monsters called Gyaos when he is confronted by Iris. ''Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris'' was shown at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival and received the Mainichi Film Concours award for Best Sound Recording in Japan. The film received positive reviews from film critics who praised its special effects with many praising it as one of the best in the ''Gamera'' film series. ==Plot== Three years have passed since Gamera defeated the Legion, and the world is once again plagued by the Gyaos, which have evolved into Hyper Gyaos. Mayumi Nagamine, noted ornithologist, returns to aid the Japanese government in addressing this threat. A graveyard of Gamera fossils is found at the bottom of the sea. Shadowy government agents, occultist Miss Asukura and Kurata Shinji, are meanwhile working to a different agenda, with Asukura believing Gamera to be an evil spirit. A pair of Gyaos glide across Tokyo's Shibuya district, but are destroyed by Gamera at the cost of twenty thousand human lives, causing the Japanese government to order Gamera's immediate destruction. Meanwhile, a young girl named Ayana, whose parents were inadvertently killed by Gamera during his previous battle with the Gyaos in 1995, discovers a stone egg sealed within her village temple. The egg hatches a small tentacled creature, whom the girl names "Iris." Iris forms a link with Ayana through an orihalcum pendant, and becomes the focus of Ayana's quest for revenge, as she seeks to raise her own monster and take vengeance against Gamera. Iris however attempts to absorb Ayana in the process of his growth. The girl's foster brother manages to free her from Iris' cocoon, but leaves his lair and kills half of the village's populace, later growing into his adult form. The military attempts to destroy him, but fails. Iris flies toward the city of Kyoto, where Ayana has been taken by Asukura and Kurata, with Asukura deliberately trying to use the girl to summon Iris. Iris is intercepted in mid-flight by Gamera, and the two engage in an aerial battle, but the Japanese army intervenes and knocks Gamera out of the sky with a tactical missile strike. Nagamine and Asagi, the girl once psychically linked with Gamera, retrieve her and attempt unsuccessfully to get her out of Kyoto. Kurata expresses a belief that Iris had been deliberately created to defeat Gamera so that the Gyaos could wipe out modern humanity. The two monsters engage continue their fight, but Iris easily gains the upper hand, impaling his foe and leaving Gamera for dead. Iris then makes his way to the train station and absorbs Ayana, killing Asukura and Kurata in the process. From within Iris' body, Ayana experiences the creature's memories, and realises that her hatred and bitterness motivated him. Just as she has her epiphany, Gamera plunges his hand deep into Iris' chest and wrenches the girl free, robbing Iris of its human merge. Miss Nagamine and Asagi, trapped within the train station's wreckage, watch helplessly as Iris impales Gamera's hand and begins to syphon his blood, creating fireballs with its tentacles. Gamera blasts off his injured hand, and absorbs Iris's fireballs, forming a fiery plasma fist, which he drives into Iris' wounded chest. Iris explodes, blowing the roof off the crumbling train station. The comatose Ayana still clutched in his fist, Gamera sets the girl down where Nagamine and Asagi are hiding. The women are unable to revive her, but Gamera lets out a roar and Ayana awakens. Gamera leaves the girl wondering why he would save her life after all she had done. A swarm of Gyaos, thousands strong, begins to descend on Japan intent on destroying their greatest foe once and for all, as Gamera lets out a final roar of defiance, as he stands his ground in the center of a blazing city. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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