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Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko
(1967)
Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1967
Running Times: 84 mins
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm Tohoscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Toho
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
SCRIPT
Script: Shinichi Sekizawa, Kazue Shiba
DIRECTION
Director: Jun Fukuda
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Kazuo Yamada
Labs: Tokyo Laboratory Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; Berkely-Pathe, USA
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ryohei Fujii
MUSIC
Music: Masaru Satô
SOUND
Sound Recordists: Toshiya Ban, Shin Takai
Sound Effects: Hisashi Shimonaga SPECIAL EFFECTS
Directors of Special Effects: Eiji Tsuburaya, Teisho Arikawa
Special Effects Marionettes: Fumio Nakadai
Special Effects Art Director: Akira Watanabe
VISUAL EFFECTS
Director of Special Effects Photography: Sokei Tomioka
Optical Photographers: Yukio Manoda, Sadao Iizuda
Special Effects Lighting: Kuichiro Kishida
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Takeo Kita
STUNTS
Stunt Choreographer: Haruo Nakajima CAST
Tadao Takashima (Dr Kusumi)
Akira Kubo (Goro Maki)
Bibari Maeda (Riko (Saeko) Matsumiya)
Akihiko Hirata (Fujisaki)
Yoshio Tsuchiya (Furukawa)
Kenji Sahara (Morio)
Kenichiro Maruyama (Ozawa)
Seishiro Kuno (Tashiro)
Yasuhiko Saijo (Suzuki)
Susumu Kurobe (navigator)
Kazuo Suzuki (pilot)
Wataru Omae (radio operator)
Chotaro Togin (surveyor)
Seiji Onaka, Haruo Nakajima (Gojira)
'Little Man' Machan (Minira)
Osman Yusuf (submarine captain)
PLOT SUMMARY
A group of scientists are performing weather
control experiments on a remote tropical island. They are harassed
by giant insects and a monstrous spider, then discover a baby giant
monster, Minira. It's not long before the baby's father,
Godzilla, turns up looking for his son.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Made by a new production team, Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira
no musuko looks cheap by comparison to the previous entries, a flaw
that would increasingly dog the subsequent films. The introduction
of the horribly cute Minira put the franchise firmly on the road to
kiddie movie hell and the only real saving grace are the excellent
supporting monsters, particularly the giant mantises. Disappointing.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: AIP
Video Distributors: Budget Video; Filmax Home Video; Hollywood Home
Entertainment; Prism Pictures; Video Treasures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
USA
Rating: G
TIMELINE
1967
December
16: Japan – theatrical release
30: South Korea – television broadcast
1971
July
15: West Germany – theatrical release
1973
August
21: Sweden – television broadcast
1976
June
26: Finland – theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
Ever see a monster hatch from a monster egg? You will!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Frankensteinin saari – Finnish
title
Frankensteins Monster jagen Godzillas Sohn –
German title
Godzillas son – Swedish title
El hijo de Godzilla – Spanish title
Son of Godzilla – US 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)
Gojira-Ebira-Mosura: Nankai no daiketto (1966)
SEQUELS
Kaijû sôshingeki (1968)
Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
It Came from Hollywood (1982) KEYWORDS
giant insects, giant monsters, giant spiders, godzilla, islands,
monsters, scientists, sequels, weather control
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