Daikaijû kessen: Gamera tai Barugon (1966)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1966
Running Times: 88 mins (USA)     92 mins (Germany)     106 mins
Format: Eastmancolor     35mm     Daieiscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Daiei
Producer: Masaichi Nagata
Planner: Yonejiro Saito
US Version Producer: Sandy Frank

SCRIPT
Script: Nisan Takahashi

DIRECTION
Director: Shigeo Tanaka

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Michio Takahashi

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Tatsuji Nakashizu

MUSIC
Music: Chuji Kinoshita

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Director of Special Effects: Noriaki Yuasa
Barugon Designer: Masao Yagi

LOCATIONS
Locations: Kobe, Japan

CAST
Kojiro Hongo (Keisuke Hirata)
Kyoko Enami (Karen)
Yuzo Hayakawa (Kawajiri)
Takuya Fujioka (Sato)
Koji Fujiyama (Onodera)
Sho Natsuki (Hirata Ichiro)
Yoshiro Kitahara (Professor Amano)
Ichiro Sugai (Dr Matsushita)
Bontaro Miake (commander)
Jutaro Houjo (sub commander)
Kazuko Wakamatsu (Hirata Sadae)
Yuka Konno (Onodera's lover)
Eiichi Takamura (Governor of Osaka)
Kenichi Tani (Lee)
Koichi Ito (Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police)
Hikaru Hoshi (captain of the Awaji-maru)
Osamu Abe, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi (crew of the Awaji-maru)
Jun Osanai
Joe Ohara (Karen's father)
Tsutomu Nakata (Hayashi)
Yuji Moriya (announcer)
Shinji Kawashima
Gai Harada (Kishimoto)
Kazuo Mori
Yasuo Araki
Shin Minatsu
Takehiko Goto
Toichiro Kagawa, Keichiro Yamane (observatory staff)
Nobuko Shingu
Hiroko Nishi
Michiyo Hikari
Takashi Masuda
Genzo Wakayama (narrator)

PLOT SUMMARY

An expedition to retrieve a giant opal ends in disaster when the opal turns out to be an egg which hatches and frees the monster Barugon. The giant creature goes on the rampage throughout Japan until Gamera arrives and battle is joined.

AVAILABILITY

Canada
Theatrical Distributors: Phoenix Film
Video Distributors: Celebrity Video Presentations

USA
Theatrical Distributors: AIP
Video Distributors: Sinister Cinema
DVD Distributors: Sinister Cinema

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

West Germany
Rating: 12 (nf)

TIMELINE

1966
April
17: Japan – theatrical release

1967
May
3: West Germany – theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Attenzione! arrivano i mostri - Italian title
Gamera vs Barugon
Godzilla, der Drache aus dem Dschungel - West German title
Los monstruos del fin del mundo - Spanish title
War of the Monsters

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Daikaijû Gamera (1965)

SEQUELS
Gamera tai Gyaosu (1967)
Gamera tai uchu kaijû Bairasu (1968)
Gamera tai daikaijû Giron (1969)
Gamera tai Daimaju Jaiga (1970)
Gamera tai Shinkai kaijû Jigura (1971)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Gamera tai uchu kaijû Bairasu (1968)
Uchu kaijû Gamera (1980)

KEYWORDS

gamera, giant monsters, helicopters, monsters, sequels, turtles

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009