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Gojira-Ebira-Mosura: Nankai no
daiketto (1966)
Country
of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1966
Running Times: 87 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Tohoscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Toho
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
SCRIPT
Script: Shinichi Sekizawa
English Language Version Script: Peter Fernandez
DIRECTION
Director: Jun Fukuda
Chief Assistant Director: Ken Sano
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Kazuo Yamada
Labs: Tokyo Laboratory Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ryohei Fujii
MUSIC
Music: Masaru Satô
Song: Masaru Sato (Samashite Mosura)
Song Performed By: Pair Bambi (Samashite Mosura)
SOUND
Sound Recording: Shoichi Yoshizawa
Sound Effects: Hisashi Shimonaga
English Language Voice Director: Peter Fernandez
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Director: Eiji Tsuburaya
Assistant Special Effects Director: Teruyoshi Nakano
Mechanical Effects: Fumio Nakadai
Special Effects Art Director: Akira Watanabe
Directors of Special Effects Photography: Teisho Arikawa,
Sokei Tomioka, Taka Yuki
Optical Photography: Sadao Iizuda
Special Effects Lighting: Kuichiro Kishida
Optical Photography: Yukio Manoda
Matte Process: Hiroshi Mukoyama
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Takeo Kita
Conceptual Artist: Hiroshi Omura
STUNTS
Stunt Choreographer: Haruo Nakajima
CAST
Akira Takarada (Yoshimura)
Kumi Mizuno (Daiyo)
Akihiko Hirata (Red Bamboo captain)
Jun Tazaki (Red Bamboo general)
Toru Watanabe (Ryota)
Toru Ibuki (Yata)
Hideo Sunazuka (Ninda)
Chotaro Togin (Ichino)
Eisei (Hideyo) Amamoto (ship captain)
Ikio Sawamura (old native man)
Hisaya Ito, Tadashi Okabe (nuclear reactor workers)
Fumiko Ohma (Kane, Ryota's mother)
Chieko Nakakita (spiritual medium)
Izuko Ikeda, Yutaka Sada (old fishermen)
HideoShibuya (policeman)
Kenichiro Murayama, Tsune Omae (reporters)
Haruo Nakajima (Gojira)
Hiroshi Sekita (Ebirah)
Kazuo Suzuki, Shoichi Hirose (natives who flee in canoe)
Pair Bambi (Mothra's twin fairies)
Wataru Omae, Kenichiro Maruyama (islander)
Shigeki Ishida (newspaper editor)
Studio No.1 Dancers (natives of Infant Island) PLOT SUMMARY
A group of teenagers and
a stowaway thief find themselves adrift on a boat
following a storm and wind up on Letchi Island where the
locals have been enslaved by the terrorist group Red
Bamboo. The slaves are put to work in a heavy water
factory, producing a fluid that wards off a sea monster,
Ebirah, lurking just off shore. They team up with an
escaped slave, Daiyo, but even she isn't enough to save
the day - but when they find a dormant Godzilla, they
hatch a desperate plan... CAPSULE REVIEW
More monster madness
from the classic era of Japanese monster movies, with
Godzilla hitting the beach to tangle with a giant mutant
lobster. The terrorist sub-plot is pretty inconsequential
but fleshes out the non-monster scenes effectively. But,
as ever, it all comes down to the monster's fighting and
the silly but fun rumbles between the two creatures (with
Mothra thrown in for good measure) are wonderful.
Thoroughly mad but hard to beat. AVAILABILITY
USA
Television Distributor: Walter Reade Organisation
Video Distributor: Hollywood Home Theater; Hollywood's
Attic / Discount Video Inc; Interglobal Home Video; Video
Treasures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Germany
Rating: 12
TIMELINE
1966
December
17: Japan - theatrical release
1969
May
16: West Germany - theatrical release ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
- UK title
Ebirah, Terror of the Deep
Godzilla Versus the Sea Monster - US title
The Great South Seas Duel
Frankenstein und die Ungeheuer aus dem Meer -
German title LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Gojira (1954)
Gojira no gyakushu (1955)
Sora no daikaijû Radon (1956)
Mosura (1961)
Kingukongu tai Gojira (1962)
Mosura tai Gojira (1964)
Kaijû daisenso (1965)
SEQUELS
Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko (1967)
Kaijû sôshingeki (1968)
Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969)
Gojira tai Hedora (1971)
Chikyu kokegi meireo: Gojira tai Gaigan (1972)
Gojira tai Megaro (1976)
Gojira tai Mekagojira (1974)
Mekagojira no Gyakusho (1975)
Gojira (1984)
Gojira tai Biorante (1989)
Gojira ta Kingugidora (1991)
Gojira tai Mosura (1992)
Gojira tai Mekagojira (1993)
Gojira tai
Supesugojira (1994)
Gojira tai
Destoroyah (1995)
Gojira ni-sen
mireniamu (1999)
Gojira tai
Megagirasu: Jii Shômetsu Sakusen (2000)
Gojira, Mosura,
Kingu Gidora: Daikaijû soukougeki (2001)
SEE ALSO
Bambi Meets Godzilla
(1969)
Ereki
no wakadaisho (1965)
Godzilla (1998)
The Godzilla Power
Hour (1978)
Godzilla: The Series
(1998)
Gorgo Versus
Godzilla (1969)
Gojira (1988)
Gojira torêdjingu
batoru (1998)
The Slammie Bros vs Godzilla and Gamera (1992)
Super Godzilla (1993)
Ultra Q (1973) REFERENCES
BOOKS
Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The
Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G"
by Steve Ryfle pp.133-138, 356
credits, illustrated production notes
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films
p.167
credits KEYWORDS
monsters; sea monsters; crabs; giant monsters; godzilla; islands; sequels;
shrimps; slavery; terrorists
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