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Gojira no gyakushu (1955)
Country of Origin:
Japan
Year of Production: 1955
Running Times: 78 mins (USA) 82 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Toho
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
US Version Producers: Edmund Goldman, Paul Schreibman
SCRIPT
Script: Shigeaki Hidaka, Takeo Murata
DIRECTION
Director: Motoyoshi Oda
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Seiichi Endo
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Hugo Grimaldi, Kazuji Taira
MUSIC
Music: Masaru Satô
US Version Stock Music: Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter
US Version Music Editor: Rex Lipton
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Masanobu Miyazaki
US Version Dubbing Director: Hugo Grimaldi
US Version Sound Effects Editor: Alvin Sarno
Sound System: Westrex Recording System
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Director of Special Effects: Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects Assistant Camera: Teisho Arikawa (uncredited)
Special Effects Art Director: Akira Watanabe
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Teruaki Abe, Takeo Kita
STUNTS
Stunt Choreography: Haruo Nakajima CAST
Hiroshi Koizumi (Shoichi Tsukioka)
Setsuko Wakayama (Hidemi Yamaji)
Minoru Chiaki (Koji Kobayashi)
Takashi Shimura (Dr Kyohei Yamane)
Masao Shimizu (Dr Tadokoro)
Seijiro Onda (Captain Terasawa)
Sonosuke Sawamura (Shingo Shibeki)
Yoshio Tsuchiya (Tajima)
Mayuri Mokusho (Yasuko Inouye)
Minosuke Yamada (Chief of Civil Defense)
Yukio Kasama (Koehi Wamaji)
Senkichi Omura (small escaped convict)
Ren Yamamoto (commander of landing craft)
Shin Otomo (convict leader)
Takeo Oikawa (Osaka Municipal Police Commissioner)
Shoichi Hirose (convict)
Junpei Natsuki (escaped convict)
Katsumi Tezuka (Angirasu)
Haruo Nakajima (Gojira)
Marvin Miller (narrator (American version)) PLOT SUMMARY
Two pilots see a pair of ancient monsters battling
on a remote island and falling into the sea. The Japanese authorities
realise that the creatures are a monster related to the original Godzilla
and a new creature known as Angilas. The monsters lay waste to Osaka
where Angilas is killed. But Godzilla is still out there and needs
to be stopped... AVAILABILITY
South Korea
Theatrical Distributor: Kuk Dong
Spain
Video Distributor: Filmax Home Video
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.
Video Distributor: Video Treasures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
West Germany
Rating: 12 (nf)
TIMELINE
1955
April
24: Japan – theatrical release
1958
August
29: West Germany – theatrical release
1959
May
21: USA – theatrical release
1960
May
17: South Korea – theatrical release ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Counterattack of the Monsters - US
promotional title
Fire Monster
Gigantis
Gigantis the Fire Monster – US title
Godzilla contraataca – Spanish title
Godzilla kehrt zurück – German title
Godzilla Raids Again - US video title
Godzilla's Counter Attack – International English
language title
Gojira Strikes Again
Gojira's Counterattack
Il re dei mostri – Italian title
Le retour de Godzilla – French title
Return of Godzilla
El rey de los monstrous – Spanish
title
Volcano Monster LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Gojira (1954)
SEQUELS
Kingukongu tai Gojira (1962)
Mosura tai Gojira (1964)
San daikaijû: Chikyu saidai no kessen (1964)
Kaijû daisenso (1965)
Gojira-Ebira-Mosura: Nankai no daiketto (1966)
Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko (1967)
Kaijû sôshingeki (1968)
Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969)
Gojira tai Hedora (1971)
Chikyu kogeki meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan (1972)
Gojira tai Megaro (1973)
Gojira tai Mekagojira (1974)
Mekagojira no gyakushu (1975)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Gojira Fuantajî ~SF Kôkyô Fuantajî~ (1984) KEYWORDS
aircraft; book into film; giant monsters; godzilla; ice; islands;
kaiju eiga; monsters; pilots; sequels
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