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Kingu Kongu tai Gojira (1962) -- A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

Overview

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Director:
Ishirô Honda
Writers:
Bruce Howard (american version)
Paul Mason (american version)
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Release Date:
26 June 1963 (USA) more
Tagline:
The motion picture screen beckons you to adventure that thrills the emotions with shock and terror! more
Plot:
A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla. full summary | full synopsis
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User Comments:
Good monster carnage. more

Cast

  (in credits order)
Tadao Takashima ... Osamu Sakurai
Kenji Sahara ... Kazuo Fujita
Yu Fujiki ... Kinsaburo Furue
Ichirô Arishima ... Mr. Tako
Jun Tazaki ... General Masami Shinzo
Akihiko Hirata ... Dr. Shigezawa
Mie Hama ... Fumiko Sakurai
Akiko Wakabayashi ... Tamiye
Akemi Negishi ... Chikiro's Mother (Dancing Girl)
Senshô Matsumoto ... Prime Minister
Senkichi Omura ... TTV Translator Konno
Sachio Sakai ... Obayashi (Mr. Tako's assistant)
Haruya Kato ... Obayashi's assistant
Nadao Kirino ... General's Aide
Kenzo Tabu ... Dreary Newscaster
Shin Otomo ... Captain of Vessel
Yoshio Kosugi ... Farou Island Chief
Tatsuo Matsumura ... Dr. Makino
Ko Mishima ... Official
Yoshifumi Tajima ... Captain of Fujita's Ship - Japanese version only
Ikio Sawamura ... Witch Doctor
Ren Yamamoto ... Helicopter Pilot
Harold Conway ... Scientist in Sub
Osman Yusuf ... Submariner
Shoichi Hirose ... Kingukongu
Haruo Nakajima ... Gojira
Katsumi Tezuka ... Gojira
Michael Keith ... Eric Carter (U.S. version only)
James Yagi ... Yutaka Omura (U.S. version only)
Harry Holcombe ... Dr. Arnold Johnson (U.S. version only)
Byron Morrow ... TV Newscaster (U.S. version only)
Les Tremayne ... Narrator (U.S. version only) (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Takuzo Kumagaya ... Police Executive (as Jirô Kumagai)
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Directed by
Ishirô Honda 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
John Beck  story "King Kong vs. Prometheus" (uncredited)
Bruce Howard  american version
Paul Mason  american version
Willis H. O'Brien  story "King Kong vs. Frankenstein" (uncredited)
Shinichi Sekizawa  writer
George Worthing Yates  story "King Kong vs. Prometheus"

Produced by
John Beck .... producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka .... producer
 
Original Music by
Akira Ifukube 
 
Cinematography by
Hajime Koizumi 
 
Film Editing by
Reiko Kaneko 
 
Production Design by
Teruaki Abe 
Takeo Kita 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Koji Hashimoto .... third assistant director
Koji Kajita .... chief assistant director
 
Sound Department
Sadamasa Nishimoto .... sound effects editor
Hisashi Shimonaga .... sound effects
William L. Stevenson .... sound effects editor: USA
 
Special Effects by
Teruyoshi Nakano .... assistant director of special effects
Teizo Toshimitsu .... special effects suit design
Eiji Tsuburaya .... director of special effects
Akira Watanabe .... art director of special effects/gojira and kingukongu suit designs
Fuminori Ohashi .... special effects technical advisor (uncredited)
 
Visual Effects by
Sadamasa Arikawa .... director of special effects photography
Koichi Kawakita .... assistant special effects cameraman
Kuichiro Kishida .... special effects lighting
Yukio Manoda .... optical effects
Hiroshi Mukoyama .... matte process
Sokei Tomioka .... special effects camera operator
Taka Yuki .... optical effects
 
Stunts
Haruo Nakajima .... stunt choreographer
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Shoshichi Kojima .... lighting technician
 
Music Department
Robert Emmett Dolan .... composer: stock music (US version)
Joseph Gershenson .... conductor: USA
Henry Mancini .... composer: stock music (US version)
Milton Rosen .... composer: stock music (US version)
Hans J. Salter .... composer: stock music (US version)
Herman Stein .... composer: stock music (US version)
Peter Zinner .... music supervisor: American music
 
Other crew
Tom Montgomery .... director: American version
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
King Kong vs. Godzilla
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Runtime:
Germany:82 min | Japan:98 min | USA:91 min
Country:
USA | Japan
Language:
Japanese | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Perspecta Stereo (Japan theatrical release) | Mono (Westrex Recording System) (US version)
Certification:
West Germany:12 (nf) | UK:PG
Company:
John Beck more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The idea for this movie was spawned by Willis O'Brien, who had done the special effects for King Kong (1933). In the late 1950s, he tried to drum up interest in a sequel to be titled King Kong vs. Frankenstein. The Frankenstein would have been a giant monster created from different animals. Unable to find an American studio interested in the project, producer John Beck offered the idea to Toho who replaced Frankenstein with Godzilla. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: You can see the eyes of the stuntman playing Kong through the eyes of the Kong suit head, especially near the end when Kong is unconscious, before he gets struck by lightning, in the close-ups of him laying on the ground while Godzilla is hitting him with his tail. more
Quotes:
Furue: What's happening?
Osamu Sakurai: Giant octopus. Hurry.
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Movie Connections:
Edited into Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1998) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
A SI ANAROI more

FAQ

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Good monster carnage., 24 May 2000
Author: lartronic from Akron, Ohio

Excellent entry into the Godzilla series, the idea of the best known monsters fighting each other was inevitable. The fact that King Kong and Godzilla are in it is reason enough alone to watch it. The American footage was obviously added in such as in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" but they didn't do a bad job. I have to resolve this one little question that I have been asked many times: Why didn't Godzilla win? Well, the answer to that is that when this was made Godzilla was still a bad guy, and humanity still wanted him destroyed. Because King Kong was loved so much in previous movies, it was a good idea to let him win. In other words, Godzilla was not yet a superhero.

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