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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Directed by Ishirō Honda
“Will you win, Godzilla? Will you win, Kong? The battle of the century!”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action · 1h 37m
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
Cast
Tadao Takashima
Osamu Sakurai
Kenji Sahara
Kazuo Fujita
Yū Fujiki
Kinzaburo Furue
Ichirō Arishima
Director Tako
Jun Tazaki
General of the JSDF Eastern Army
Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Shosuke Shigezawa
Mie Hama
Fumiko Sakurai
Akiko Wakabayashi
Tamiye
Akemi Negishi
Chikiro's Mother
Yoshio Kosugi
Chief of Faro Island
Yoshibumi Tajima
Captain of the Shinsei-Maru No. 2
Ikio Sawamura
Witch Doctor
Crew
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Screenplay
- Shinichi Sekizawa
- Director of Photography
- Hajime Koizumi
- Original Music Composer
- Akira Ifukube
- Editor
- Reiko Kaneko
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Details
- Original title
- キングコング対ゴジラ
- Release date
- 1962-08-11
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese, English
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Tokyo Laboratory
- Box office
- $12,550,000