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King Kong Escapes (1967)
Directed by Ishirō Honda
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Overview
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, “The King Kong Show”. King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.
Rated G | Length 104 minutes
Actors
Akira Takarada | Mie Hama | Rhodes Reason | Linda Miller | Hideyo Amamoto | Yoshifumi Tajima | Sachio Sakai | Ryuji Kita | Ikio Sawamura | Nadao Kirino | Shôichi Hirose | Kazuo Suzuki | Tôru Ibuki | Naoya Kusakawa | Susumu Kurobe | Haruo Nakajima | Yû Sekita | Kei Taguchi | Akiko Santo | Osman Yusuf | Tadashi Okabe | Seishirô Kuno | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Andrew Hughes
Viewing History (seen 9 times)
Viewing Notes
DKUTV is continuing with their Godzilla Champion Festival programming for the entire weekend. This weekend they did the 1973 program so this film was included with the truncated version edited down to an hour. I was super curious to view this but then realized that maybe this would have to be in the Japanese language since it was for the festival. I was correct!
For the very first time in my life I got watch this movie in its native Japanese. It was glorious and now I’m considering getting the Toho Films Blu release despite it not having subtitles. Might wait to see if they do the 4K restore like they’ve done with a few other titles.
Anyways this was an incredible Experience. Also the movie still played great cut down to an hour. All the fun action beats and character interaction were still there.
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