Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto (1966)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Jun Fukuda

Writer:

Shinichi Sekizawa (writer)

Release Date:

1969 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

This is one lobster you don't want to order!

Plot:

A young man steals a boat to find his brother, but he and his shipmates become shipwrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by a giant sea monster and a slumbering Godzilla.

Plot Keywords:

Boat | Island | Godzilla | Monster | Mothra

Cast

Akira Takarada	...	Yoshimura
Kumi Mizuno	...	Daiyo
Chotaro Togin	...	Ichino
Hideo Sunazuka	...	Nita
Toru Watanabe	...	Ryota Kane
Tôru Ibuki	...	Yata Kane
Akihiko Hirata	...	Captain Yamoto
Jun Tazaki	...	Red Bamboo Commander
Ikio Sawamura	...	Elderly Slave
Pair Bambi	...	Mothra's Little Beauties
Eisei Amamoto	...	Red Bamboo Naval Officer
Hisaya Ito	...	Red Bamboo Scientist #1
Tadashi Okabe	...	Red Bamboo Scientist #2
Kazuo Suzuki	...	Escaped Slave
Shoichi Hirose	...	Escaped Slave

Also Known As:

Big Duel in the North (International: English title)
Big Duel in the North Sea (International: English title)
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (UK)
Ebirah, Terror of the Deep
Godzilla Versus the Sea Monster (USA)
Godzilla, Mothra, and Ebira, Horror of the Deep (USA) (subtitle)
Operation Robinson Crusoe (International: English title) (working title)
The Great South Seas Duel

MPAA:

Rated PG for sci-fi monster violence.

Runtime:

87 min | USA:83 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.55 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | West Germany:12 (nf) | USA:PG

Company:

Toho Company

Trivia:

Noriko Takahashi originally started the role of Dayo, but bowed out at the last minute due to appendicitis.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the beginning of the American version, there is a scene supposedly showing Yata's boat being destroyed. Yoshimura is on the boat which is called "Yahlen" and is the boat Ryota steals later in the film.

Quotes:

Daiyo: It could be Mothra's asleep at present. Our prayers will reach its source and it will arrive. Yes, I'm sure Mothra is soon going to hear us!
Nita: It's too bad Mothra has no alarm clock.
Ryota Kane: Don't make fun of her!
Nita: You're really superstitious, eh?

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "The Real Ghost Busters: Attack of the B-Movie Monsters (#7.3)" (1991)

Soundtrack:

Samashite Mosura

Godzila gets crabs

This is actualy a fun film if you're a kid, and i loved godzilla when i was i think back to the days of watching those chessy B movies(i havnt realy progresed that far in 10 years) and this was one of my favriotes and now somthing that angers me is it having a 4 point rating i mean kids love this and its fun and next time you get a chance pop one of these in have a good laugh and look back at you're childhood you'll have more fun then you would think.Now that thats gone ill fill you with my memories of this film the specel effects are alright and about what you would expect. Plot? we dont need no stinking plot!!! so botom line if you're a kid you'll love it and if you're with friends and older and in serch of a laugh you'll love it for its chessyness.