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San daikaijû: Chikyu saidai no kessen (1964)
Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1964
Running Times: 73 mins (Japan - 1971 re-release)
85 mins (USA) 92 mins (Japan)
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
Tohoscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Toho
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
SCRIPT
Script: Shinichi Sekizawa
DIRECTION
Director: Ishirô Honda
Chief Assistant Director: Ken Sano
Assistant Director: Koji Hashimoto
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Hajime Koizumi
Lighting: Shoshichi Kojima
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ryohei Fujii
MUSIC
Music: Akira Ifukube
Song: Hiroshi Miyagawa (Call Happiness)
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Eiji Tsuburaya, Sokei Tomioka, Yukio Manoda
Chief Assistant Director of Special Effects: Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects Art Director: Akira Watanabe
Special Effects Cameraman: Teisho Arikawa
Special Effects Lighting: Kuichiro Kishida
VISUAL EFFECTS
Opticals: Hiroshi Mukoyama
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Takeo Kita
STUNTS
Stunt Choreographer: Haruo Nakajima
CAST
Yosuke Natsuki (Detective Shindo)
Yuriko Hoshi (Naoko Shindo)
Hiroshi Koizumi (Professor Miura)
Akiko Wakabayashi (Mas Selina Salno, Princess of Sergina)
Emi Ito, Yumi Ito (Shobijin)
Takashi Shimura (Dr Tsukamoto)
Akihiko Hirata (Chief Detective Okita)
Hisaya Ito (Malmess)
Minoru Takada (Chairman of Board Meeting)
Somesho Matsumoto (alien expert)
Ikio Sawamura (honest fisherman)
Kôzô Nomura (Professor's assistant)
Kenji Sahara (Kanamaki)
Susumu Kurobe (moustachoied assassin)
Toru Ibuki (short-tie assassin)
Kazuo Suzuki (showoff door-opener assassin)
Haruya Kato (journalist)
Shin Otomo (boss of assassins)
Senkichi Omura (would-be hat retriever)
Yutaka Nakayama (tourist with lost hat)
Heihachiro Okawa (astronomer)
Yutaka Oka (meteorite scientist)
Eisei Amamoto (Wu)
Yoshio Kosugi (Chief of Infant Island)
Yoshifumi Tajima (heedless ship captain)
Koji Uno, Shigeki Ishida (guys in crowd)
Toshihiko Furuta, Kotaro Tomita (villagers)
Haruo Nakajima (Gojira)
Shoichi Hirose (Kingugidora)
Masashi Shinohara (Radon)
Katsumi Tezuka (Mothra)
PLOT SUMMARY
A young princess from a small Himalayan country is posessed by an alien
spirit fleeing the destruction of its planet by the three-headed monster
Ghidorah, which then arrives on Earth aboard a meteorite. Godzilla and
Rodan revive and lay waste to vast tracts of Japan as they fight each
other, but are persuaded by Mothra to join forces against the much greater
threat posed by Ghidorah.
AVAILABILITY
Canada
Theatrical Distributor: International Film Distributors
Japan
Theatrical Distributor: Toho Company Ltd
Video Distributor: Toho Video
South Korea
Theatrical Distributor: Kuk Dong
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Continental
Video Distributor: Admit One Video; Filmax Home Video; GoodTimes Home
Video; Hollywood Home Theater; Interglobal Home Video; Prism Pictures;
Something Weird Video; VCII; Video Connection; Video Treasures
TIMELINE
1964
December
20: Japan – theatrical release
1965
September
13: USA – theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster –
UK / US title
Godzilla contra Ghidorah, el dragón de tres cabezas –
Spanish title
Godzilla vs. Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster –
Swedish video title
Gojira Mosura Kingughidorah: chikyu saidai no kessen –
re-release title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Gojira (1954)
Gojira no gyakushu (1955)
Mosura (1961)
Kingukongu tai Gojira (1962)
Mosura tai Gojira (1964)
SEE ALSO
Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
Gojira (1988)
Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidora: Daikaijû soukougeki (2001)
Gojira: Kaiju dai-rantou (2002)
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Gojira Fuantajî ~SF Kôkyô Fuantajî~ (1984)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Oriental Cinema no.4 pp.8-9 (USA)
review
Video Watchdog no.46 p.7 (USA)
review
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Fantasy and Horror Movies 1991 - 1992
pp.314-315
credits, review
KEYWORDS
aircraft, aliens, giant insects, giant monsters, godzilla, insects,
monsters, possession, sequels
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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