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Mekagojira no gyakushu (1975)
Country of Origin:
Japan
Year of Production: 1975
Running Times: 79 mins (USA) 83 mins 89 mins (UK)
Format: colour 35mm Panavision (anamorphic)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Toho
Executive Producers: Henry G. Saperstein, Tomoyuki Tanaka
Production Manager: Keisuke Shinodo
SCRIPT
Script / Story: Yukiko Takayama
DIRECTION
Director: Ishirô Honda
Chief Assistant Director: Kensho Yamashita
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Sokei Tomioka
Lighting: Toshio Takashima
Lab: Tokyo Laboratory Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa
MUSIC
Music: Akira Ifukube
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Fumio Yanoguchi SPECIAL EFFECTS
Director of Special Effects: Teruyoshi Nakano
Assistant Director of Special Effects: Kan Komura
Mechanical Effects: Takesaburo Watanabe
Special Effects Art Director: Yasuyuki Inoue
VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical Effects: Yoichi Manoda
Optical Photography: Yukio Manoda
Mattes: Kazunobu Mikame
Special Effects Cameraman: Sokei Tomioka
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Yoshifumi Honda CAST
Katsuhiko Sasaki (Akira Ichinose)
Tomoko Ai (Katsura Mafune)
Akihiko Hirata (Dr Shinji Mafune)
Katsumasa Uchida (Jiro Murakoshi)
Goro Mutsumi (Mugal)
Tadao Nakamaru (Tagawa)
Shin Roppongi (Yuuichi Wakayama)
Tomoe Mari (Yuri Yamamoto)
Toru Ibuki (Tsuda)
Kenji Sahara (Segawa)
Kotaro Tomita (Professor Ôta)
Ikio Sawamura (Mafune's silent butler)
Masaaki Daimon (Captain Kusakari)
Toshio Kirishima, Haruo Suzuki (aliens)
Kazuo Suzuki (trenchcoat alien with gun)
Toru Kawai (Gojira)
Ise Mori (Mekagojira 2)
Katsumi Nimiamoto (Chitanozaurusu)
Shizuko Higashi (old country lady)
Masaichi H.
Toshio Hosoi
Kazuo Imagi
H. Ishiya
Saburo Kadowaki
Hiraya Kamita
Shigeo Kato
Masayoshi Kikuchi
Yoshio Kirishina
Yasuzo Ogawa
Taro Yamada
Kiyoshi Yoshida
PLOT SUMMARY
Aliens from a dying planet plan to conquer the
Earth by rebuilding Mechagodzilla. They team up with the mad scientist
Professor Mafuni who has found a way to control the monster Titanosaurus
using a bio-mechanical link to his cyborg daughter Katsura. Only Godzilla
stands bewteen the aliens and their bid to conquer the world - but
this time, even he may not be enough.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Bob Conn Enterprises
DVD Distributor: Simitar (7476); Simitar (7603 - Godzilla - 5 Rampaging
Movies); Sony Music Video (LVD54286)
South Korea
Theatrical Distributor: Kuk Dong
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Manga Films S.L.
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Norway
Rating: 11
UK
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: G
West Germany
Rating: 12 (nf)
TIMELINE
1975
March
15: Japan – theatrical release
18: South Korea – theatrical release
August
22: West Germany – theatrical release
1977
March
Day Unknown: USA – theatrical release
1998
May
5: USA - DVD release (Simitar (7476))
1999
March
16: USA - DVD release (Simitar (7603 - Godzilla - 5 Rampaging Movies))
2002
September
17: USA - DVD release (Sony Music Video (LVD54286))
POSTER TAGS
From a black hole in space...they came to conquer Earth...!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Die Brut des Teufels, Konga, Godzilla, King
Kong – German title
Distruggete Kong! La Terra e in pericolo - Italian
title
The Escape of Mechagodzilla
The Escape of Megagodzilla
Godzilla contra Mechagodzilla - Spanish title
Godzilla und der Kampf der Titanen - German title
Konga-Godzilla-King Kong - Die Brut des Teufels -
German title
Mechagodzilla vs Godzilla
Monsters from an Unknown Planet
Monsters from the Unknown Planet
Revenge of Mechagodzilla
The Terror of Godzilla - US title
Terror of Mechagodzilla - US video title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Gojira (1954)
Gojira tai Mekagojira (1974)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Gojira Fuantajî ~SF Kôkyô Fuantajî~ (1984) KEYWORDS
cyborgs; giant monsters; godzilla; monsters; robots
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