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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

Directed by Ishirō Honda

Action | Science Fiction | Adventure

Most recently watched by sensoria, archstanton43, Javitron, lordofthemovies

Overview

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.

Rated NR | Length 97 minutes

Actors

Tadao Takashima | Kenji Sahara | Yû Fujiki | Ichirô Arishima | Jun Tazaki | Akihiko Hirata | Mie Hama | Akiko Wakabayashi | Akemi Negishi | Yoshio Kosugi | Yoshifumi Tajima | Ikio Sawamura | Someshô Matsumoto | Ko Mishima | Sachio Sakai | Tatsuo Matsumura | Senkichi Ômura | Senshô Matsumoto | Ren Yamamoto | Haruya Katô | Shin Ôtomo | Nadao Kirino | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Kenzô Tabu | Takuzô Kumagai | Hideo Shibuya | Douglas Fein | Harold Conway | Osman Yusuf | Shôichi Hirose | Haruo Nakajima | Katsumi Tezuka

Viewing History (seen 4 times)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
02/12/2023TVBroadcastTV7 stars
07/13/2017Movie ScreenDigitalTheater7 stars
04/12/2014Movie ScreenFilmTheater7 stars
01/31/2014TVDVDOwned7 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Been a few years since I’ve seen this. Never been a big fan mainly due to the intentional humor injected during the first half and the piss poor Kong. But I’ve only seen the American release by Universal which is a different cut with added scenes shot in Hollywood. Noticed that the score is the same score from Creature from the Black Lagoon and not Ifukube’s score, which I have on CD.

I really need to track down the original JP release. It’s not vastly different but still different enough esp. in order of the action and subplotting. Also I really dislike the dub they did. It’s so damn stupid.

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