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King Kong vs. Godzilla -- A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

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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) See more »
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi See more »
Tagline:
The motion picture screen beckons you to adventure that thrills the emotions with shock and terror! See 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 Reviews:
Too Bad the Original Version Isn't on DVD See more (87 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order)
Tadao Takashima ... Osamu Sakurai
Kenji Sahara ... Kazuo Fujita
Yû 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 Ômura ... TTV Translator Konno
Sachio Sakai ... Obayashi (Mr. Tako's assistant)
Haruya Kato ... Obayashi's assistant
Nadao Kirino ... General's Aide
Kenzô Tabu ... Dreary Newscaster
Shin Ôtomo ... Captain of Vessel
Yoshio Kosugi ... Farou Island Chief
Tatsuo Matsumura ... Dr. Makino
Kô 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
Shôichi 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:
Douglas Fein ... Commander Roberts
Takuzô Kumagai ... 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 
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
Kôji 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
Koichi Takano .... puppet 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 Ôhashi .... special effects technical advisor (uncredited)
 
Visual Effects by
Sadamasa Arikawa .... director of special effects photography
Koichi Kawakita .... assistant special effects cameraman
Kuichirô 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:
"Kingu Kongu tai Gojira" - USA (original title)
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Runtime:
Germany:82 min | Japan:98 min | USA:91 min | Argentina:91 min
Country:
USA | Japan
Language:
Japanese | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Perspecta Stereo (Japan theatrical release) | Mono (Westrex Recording System) (US version)
Certification:
USA:Approved (Certificate #20439) | USA:Not Rated (DVD) | Argentina:13 | West Germany:12 (nf) | UK:PG
Company:
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Did You Know?

Trivia:
The film features the Davy Crockett, a portable missile-launched nuclear weapon developed by the United States. At the time, this weapon was still classified.See more »
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The soldiers climbing all over Kong to attach the harness and balloons to him are badly animated "soldiers" (you can see the buildings through them).See more »
Quotes:
[King Kong has just encountered Godzilla]
Osamu Sakurai:Oh, I'll bet Kong has no chance.
Mr. Tako:I'll toss you... Heads for King Kong.
[he flips the coin]
Mr. Tako:Tails...
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Movie Connections:
References Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)See more »
Soundtrack:
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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful.
Too Bad the Original Version Isn't on DVD, 3 March 2003
Author: Brian Washington (Sargebri@att.net) from Los Angeles, California

Even though this is one of my favorite Godzilla films, its too bad that the original version without the added American scenes has never been released in this country and in all likelihood never will. From all accounts, in its original form, this film was a perfect satire on runaway commercialism and the consequences that can happen if people go to far in the pursuit of money. The character of Mr. Tako is probably the greediest man in the history of filmdom and he almost causes the destruction of Tokyo in pursuit of the almighty dollar, or in his case yen. Hopefully one day Universal will come to its senses and release the original Japanese version in the US.

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