Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

Director: Haruki Kadokawa

1993 / 106min / DCP

Released just two weeks before Jurassic Park and famed for the off-camera exploits of its director, flamboyant media mogul Kadokawa, Rex: A Dinosaur’s Story managed to do a brisk business at the Japanese box office, tugging heartstrings in telling the story of Chie (Yumi Adachi), a paleontologist’s daughter who discovers a Tyrannosaurus egg with her father (Tsunehiko Watase) and then forms an unlikely friendship with the hatchling that emerges from within. Made with a lavish budget that allowed for contracting the services of special-effects world megastar Carlo Rambaldi (E.T., Possession, Lizard in a Woman’s Skin), Kadokawa’s charmingly bonkers, Christmas-set blockbuster has now been remastered, primed to meet a new generation of international fans.

A Kani Releasing release

Part of Dinosauria