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Gojira tai Megaro (1973)
Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1973
Running Times: 78 mins (USA)
81 mins
Format: Fujicolor 35mm
Panavision (anamorphic)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Toho
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Unit Production Manager: Keisuke Shinodo
SCRIPT
Script: Jun Fukuda
Story: Gojira tai Uchu Kaijû by Takeshi Kimura
Screen Story: Shinichi Sekizawa
DIRECTION
Director: Jun Fukuda
Assistant Director: Tsunesaburo Nishikawa
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Yuzuru Aizawa
Lighting: Masakuni Morimoto
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Michiko Ikeda
MUSIC
Music: Riichiro Manabe
Song: Riichiro Manabe, Shinichi Sekizawa (Gojira and Jaguar, Punch
Punch Punch!)
Song Performed By: Masato Shimon (Gojira and Jaguar, Punch Punch Punch!)
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Teishiro Hayashi
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Director of Special Effects: Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects Wire Work: Shôji Okawa
Special Effects Cameraman: Sokei Tomioka
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Yoshifumi Honda
CAST
Katsuhiko Sasaki (Goro Ibuki)
Hiroyuki Kawase (Rokuro 'Rokku-chan' Ibuki)
Yutaka Hayashi (Hiroshi Jinkawa)
Robert Dunham (Emperor Antonio of Seatopia)
Kotaro Tomita (lead Seatopian agent)
Wolf Otsuki (Seatopian agent)
Gen Nakajima (truck driver)
Sakyo Mikami (truck driver's assistant)
Fumiyo Ikeda (man on bay surface)
Kanta Mori (Japan Special Defense Forces Chief)
Shinji Takagi (Gojira)
Hideto Odachi (Megaro)
Tsugutoshi Komada (Jetto Jagâ)
Kengo Nakayama (real name: Kenpachiro Satsuma) (Gaigan) PLOT SUMMARY
The underground kingdom of Seatopia despatches
the giant insect-like creature Megalon and the buzzsaw wielding behemoth
Gigan to attack the hated surface dwellers. They steal a human-sized
automaton, Jet Jaguar, from a young inventor and reprogram it to attack
Megalon to Tokyo, only to lose it again when the inventor restores
control and sends Jet Jaguar to Monster Island in search of Godzilla.
With Jet Jaguar now grown to monster size and and the space monster
Gaigan joining in, the stage is set for another titanic struggle. CAPSULE REVIEW
The very bottom of the the Godzilla barrel, this cheap, silly outing
relegates Godzilla to the sidelines, cuts corners by reusing footage
from previous films and the acting is the worst in any of the films.
Jet Jaguar looks fantastic but is quite clearly just an Ultraman clone
and Godzilla has never looked worse. And as for those clothes the
actors are forced to wear... Unbelievably poor in almost every department. AVAILABILITY
Canada
Theatrical Distributor: Astral Films
South Korea
Theatrical Distributor: Kuk Dong
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Cinema Shares International
Video Distributors: GoodTimes Home Video; Network Enterprises; Nostalgia
Video; Something Weird Video; United American Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: PG
UK
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: G
TIMELINE
1973
March
17: Japan – theatrical release
June
14: South Korea – television broadcast
December
14: West Germany – theatrical release
1976
April
Day Unknown: USA – theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
Titan against Titan! Giant against Giant, in the most
spectacular battle yet!! ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Ai confini della realtà –
Italian title
Godzilla kontra Megalon – Polish title
Godzilla vs Megalon – US title
Gorgo y Superman se citan en Tokio – Spanish
title
King-Kong - Dämonen aus dem Weltall –
German title LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Gojira (1954)
Chikyu kogeki meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan (1972)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Hollywood Dinosaurs (1991)
The Runestone (1990) KEYWORDS
giant insects; giant monsters; giant robots; insects; godzilla; monsters;
robots; sequels; underwater
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