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The advertising director of a pharmaceutical company seeks to boost the ratings of their sponsored TV program by capturing King Kong, who breaks loose and battles a re-emerged Godzilla.The advertising director of a pharmaceutical company seeks to boost the ratings of their sponsored TV program by capturing King Kong, who breaks loose and battles a re-emerged Godzilla.The advertising director of a pharmaceutical company seeks to boost the ratings of their sponsored TV program by capturing King Kong, who breaks loose and battles a re-emerged Godzilla.
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- Willis H. O'Brien(uncredited)
- Shin'ichi Sekizawa
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- TriviaTo promote the film, Toho released "interviews" with King Kong and Godzilla in which the monsters acted like sumo wrestlers preparing for their bout against each other.
In this promotion Godzilla was quoted as saying: "seven years has passed since I rose from the bottom of the southern seas and raved about in Japan, leaving destruction behind wherever I crawled. It is most gratifying for me to have the privilege of seeing you again after breaking through an iceberg in the arctic ocean where I was buried. At the thought of my engagement with King Kong from America I feel my blood boil and flesh dance. I am now applying myself to vigorous training day and night to capture the world monster-championship from King Kong."
In response King Kong said "I may be the stranger to the younger people here, but have quite a number of fighting adventures to my credit. I will fight to the last ditch in the forthcoming encounter with Mr. Godzilla, for my title is at stake... Hearing that the world-renowned special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya is to act as referee I am going to return to the screen in high spirits."
- Quotes
Tako: Full page ads of a smiling King Kong holding our drugs.
Osamu Sakurai: Will he smile?
Tako: He will. The catchphrase will be "I'll pulverize Godzilla because I use Pacific drugs.
- Alternate versionsA version created for the Champion festival re-edited and shorten the film's run-time, supervised by Honda
- ConnectionsEdited into King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
- SoundtracksThe Giant Demon God - Main Title
Composed by Akira Ifukube
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Better than the modern Hollywood version
Like Mothra, here also, Toho produces a movie that criticizes nuclear war and consumerism at the same time but on a whole another level. Bringing the most famous monsters together, one from Hollywood and one from Japan, it was really a huge event even back then. The first half of the story in the monster part is similar to both monsters' first outing but the human element is a pharmaceutical company using monsters for advertisement. Initially, I thought the humor element there was simply like a comic relief moment but the movie manages to be hilarious throughout. The King Kong suit design itself is very whacky. Then when the final battle ensues, it's just two people in rubber suits wrestling and throwing props at each other. The whole battle is just stupid and hilarious. The initial Island rituals and music were actually engrossing but with the cigarette gift to the blackface kids it is consistently funny. Even though there's so much stupidity in this movie, a lot of it is clearly intentional and they know what the audience wants. Even all the posters are hilarious. Still, better than the modern Hollywood version.
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- Jithindurden
- Nov 19, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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