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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)

Directed by Ishirō Honda, Thomas Montgomery

Adventure | Science Fiction

Most recently watched by AllAboutSteve, sensoria

Overview

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.

Rated NR | Length 96 minutes

Actors

Michael Keith | Harry Holcombe | James Yagi | Tadao Takashima | Kenji Sahara | Ichirô Arishima | George Takei | Les Tremayne | Byron Morrow | Mie Hama | Akiko Wakabayashi | Akemi Negishi | Akihiko Hirata | Yû Fujiki | Jun Tazaki | Yoshio Kosugi | Ikio Sawamura | Kenzô Tabu | Tatsuo Matsumura | Victor Millan | Douglas Fein | Haruo Nakajima | Shôichi Hirose | Katsumi Tezuka | Paul Mason | Bruce Howard

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
08/11/2025TVBlu-rayOwned7 stars
04/25/2020TVBlu-rayVideo on Demand6 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Happy Birthday (or anniversary?) to this significant piece of film history. Not sure I’ve ever given this a viewing on its anniversary date so what the hay.

I watched the Japanese version on the supplements disc from the Criterion collection. Logging the US edition since I was incorrectly logging the JP edition and don’t want to go back and fix all those. Most of the principle are listed.

The Japanese version is so much better and feels right, incl. the wonderful Ifukube score.

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