King Kong vs. Godzilla
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Inoshiro Honda
Michael Keith
James Yagi
Tadao Takashima
Mie Hama
Yu Fujiki
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United Nations television reporter Eric Carter comments in a newscast on two items of unusual interest--first, mammoth icebergs are drifting toward Japan; second, scientists of the Pacific Pharmaceutical Company have discovered in the Solomon Islands some berries that produce a non-habit-forming narcotic. The scientists also find King Kong, who mysteriously appears during an electrical storm and kills a giant octopus. To boost a current advertising campaign, the company sends two men to capture the beast by drugging him with the narcotic. Meanwhile, the prehistoric monster Godzilla emerges from an iceberg in the Arctic Ocean, destroys a nuclear submarine, and heads toward Japan. King Kong awakens in captivity, senses the approaching enemy, and escapes from his captors. Nothing can stop the two creatures as they trample everything in their paths. They finally meet in combat atop Mount Fuji, and their battle creates an earthquake, sending them over a high cliff into the sea. Godzilla disappears, and King Kong moves on south.
Cast
Michael Keith
James Yagi
Tadao Takashima
Mie Hama
Yu Fujiki
Kenji Sahara
Ichiro Arishima
Harry Holcombe
Tatsuo Matsumura
Akihiko Hirata
Akiko Wakabayashi
Senkichi Omura
Crew
John Beck
John Beck
Bruce Howard
Akira Ifukube
Hajime Koizumi
Paul Mason
Shinichi Sekizawa
William Stevenson
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Eiji Tsuburaya
Peter Zinner
Peter Zinner
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Released in Japan in 1962 as King Kong tai Godzilla; running time: 99 min. The film was reedited, and some additional scenes featuring Michael Keith, James Yagi, and Harry Holcombe were interpolated, for the English language version.
