King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)



Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Michael Keith
Eric Carter

Harry Holcombe
Dr. Arnold Johnson

James Yagi
Yutaka Omura

Tadao Takashima
Osamu Sakurai

Kenji Sahara
Kazuo Fujita (as Keji Sahaka)

Ichirō Arishima
Mr. Tako (as Ichiro Arishima)

George Takei
Osamu Sakurai (voice) (uncredited)

Les Tremayne
Mr. Tako / Dr. Shigesawa / Dr. Akira Makino / General Masami Shinzo / Commander Roberts / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Byron Morrow
Newscaster (uncredited)

Mie Hama
Fumiko Sakurai (uncredited)

Akiko Wakabayashi
Tamiye (uncredited)

Akemi Negishi
Chikiro's Mother (Dancing Girl) (uncredited)

Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Shigezawa (uncredited)

Yū Fujiki
Kinzaburo Furue (uncredited)

Jun Tazaki
General Masami Shinzo (uncredited)

Yoshio Kosugi
Faro Island Chief (uncredited)

Edgar Wallace
Writer

Ikio Sawamura
Witch Doctor (uncredited)

Kenzō Tabu
Dreary Newscaster (uncredited)

Tatsuo Matsumura
Dr. Akira Makino (uncredited)

Victor Millan
Rodrigo Infanta (uncredited)

Douglas Fein
Commander Roberts (uncredited)

Haruo Nakajima
Godzilla (uncredited) / Stunts

Shōichi Hirose
King Kong (uncredited) / Stunts

Katsumi Tezuka
Godzilla in iceberg (uncredited)

Paul Mason
Misc. Characters (voice) (uncredited) / Writer

Bruce Howard
Misc. Characters (voice) (uncredited) / Writer

Peter Zinner
Music Supervisor / Supervising Film Editor / Music Editor

William L. Stevenson
Sound Effects / Sound Effects Editor

Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects / Visual Effects / Visual Effects Director

George Worthing Yates
Original Story

Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography

Toshio Takashima
Lighting Technician

Kenji Aoki
Choreographer

Sadamasa Arikawa
Special Effects / VFX Director of Photography

Hiroshi Mukoyama
Visual Effects / Visual Effects Compositor

Takeo Kita
Production Design

Teruaki Abe
Production Design

Herschel Burke Gilbert
Music

Henry Mancini
Music

Herman Stein
Music

Koichi Kawakita
Special Effects / Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Camera

Masakatsu Asai
Special Effects / Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects / Visual Effects Director

Motoyoshi Tomioka
Special Effects / VFX Director of Photography

Akira Watanabe
Visual Effects Art Director

Koji Kajita
First Assistant Director

Koji Hashimoto
Assistant Director

Seiji Tani
Assistant Director

Kuichirô Kishida
Lighting Technician / VFX Lighting Artist

Shigeru Nakamura
Production Manager

Sadamasa Nishimoto
Sound Effects

Takao Saiwai
Visual Effects

Yukio Manoda
Visual Effects / Visual Effects Camera

Takashi Narita
Visual Effects Production Manager

Willis H. O'Brien
Original Story

Kyuzo Yamamoto
Property Master

Teizô Toshimitsu
Sculptor / Costume Designer / Modeling

Takashi Nakao
Still Photographer

Kanju Yagi
Costume Designer / Modeling

Yasuei Yagi
Costume Designer / Modeling

Eizo Kaimai
Costume Designer / Modeling

Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects / Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects / Visual Effects Director

Yôichi Manoda
Special Effects / Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Camera

Toshiro Aoki
Visual Effects Art Director / Special Effects Assistant

Jiro Shirasaki
Visual Effects Art Director / Special Effects Assistant

Yasuyuki Inoue
Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Art Director

Yoshio Irie
Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Art Director

Sadao Iizuka
Visual Effects

Fuchimu Shimakura
Background Designer / Matte Painter

John Beck
Producer

Thomas Montgomery
Director

Hans J. Salter
Music

Heinz Roemheld
Music

Paul Sawtell
Music

Keizô Murase
Sculptor / Costume Designer

Ishirō Honda
Director

Shinichi Sekizawa
Screenplay

Reiko Kaneko
Editor

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer

Bert Shefter
Music

Akira Ifukube
Music

Hachiro Matsui
Music

Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Mixer

Masao Fujiyoshi
Sound Recordist

Koichi Takano
Special Effects

Taka Yuki
Visual Effects

Tôru Suzuki
Special Effects / Special Effects Assistant
Media.





Details.
Release DateJune 26, 1963
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingNR
Budget$12,000
Box Office$2,700,000
Filming LocationsJapan
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
King Kong vs. Godzilla (Japanese: キングコング対ゴジラ, Hepburn: Kingu Kongu tai Gojira) is a 1962 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, it is the third film in both the Godzilla and King Kong franchises, as well as the first Toho-produced film featuring King Kong. It is also the first time that each character appeared on film in color and widescreen. The film stars Shoichi Hirose as King Kong and Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla with Shoichi Hirose, Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yū Fujiki, Ichirō Arishima, and Mie Hama playing other prominent roles. In the film, Godzilla is reawakened by an American submarine and a pharmaceutical company captures King Kong for promotional uses, culminating in a battle on Mount Fuji.
The project began with a story outline devised by King Kong stop motion animator Willis O'Brien around 1960, in which Kong battles a giant Frankenstein's monster; O'Brien gave the outline to producer John Beck for development. Behind O'Brien's back and without his knowledge, Beck gave the project to Toho to produce the film, replacing the giant Frankenstein's monster with Godzilla and scrapping O'Brien's original story.
King Kong vs. Godzilla was released theatrically in Japan on August 11, 1962, and grossed ¥352 million, making it the second-highest-grossing Japanese film in history upon its release. The film remains the most attended Godzilla film in Japan to date, and is credited with encouraging Toho to prioritize the continuation of the Godzilla series after seven years of dormancy. A heavily re-edited "Americanized" version of the film was released theatrically in the United States by Universal International Inc. on June 26, 1963.
The film was followed by Mothra vs. Godzilla, released on April 29, 1964.
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)

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Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)

Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959)

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