Gappa, the Triphibian Monster (1967)
April 22, 1967Release Date
Gappa, the Triphibian Monster (1967)
April 22, 1967Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Tamio Kawachi
Hiroshi Kurosaki
Yuji Okada
Daize Tonooka
Yōko Yamamoto
Itoko Koyanagi
Yuji Odaka
Prof. Daize Tonooka
Kōji Wada
Mashida
Tatsuya Fuji
George Inoue
Keisuke Inoue
President Funazu
Zenji Yamada
Captain of the Kamome-maru
Bumon Kahara
Elder
William Ross
Writer
Kōtarō Sugie
Reporter #1
Toshinosuke Nagao
Cmdr. Riku
Saburo Hiromatsu
Hosoda
Masaru Kamiyama
The Professor
Haruyasu Noguchi
Director
Gan Yamazaki
Writer
Kokan Katsura
Saburo Hayashi
Ryuzo Nakanishi
Writer
Shirô Oshimi
Oyama
William Ross
Writer
Yoko Oyagi
Aihara
Sanpei Mine
Islander 1
Takashi Koshiba
Reporter 2
Eisei Koi
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 22, 1967
Original Name大巨獣ガッパ
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 24m
Genres
Wiki.
Gappa (Japanese: 大巨獣ガッパ, Hepburn: Daikyojū Gappa, lit. 'Giant Beast Gappa') is a 1967 Japanese kaiju film directed by Haruyasu Noguchi. The film is about a group of Japanese reporters who discover an infant monster called a Gappa on Obelisk Island. The reporters cage the creature and take it to Japan where it becomes a media attraction. This angers the natives of the island and Gappa's full-grown parents, who head toward Japan to find their child. Its plot virtually duplicates that of the 1961 British film Gorgo.
The film was released theatrically as Daikyojū Gappa in Japan in 1967, but only received a direct-to-television release in the United States as Monster from a Prehistoric Planet. It received positive reviews from Variety and Phil Hardy.
Certain shots of the Gappas attacking Japan were used in the 1991 Red Dwarf episode "Meltdown".