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.
Practical Effects
Men in rubber suits throwing boulders at each other — cinema.
Production
Toho's wild reimagining of Kong, legally distinct and hilariously janky.
Direction
Honda balances satire and destruction with surprising craft.
Director
Ishirō Honda
Tadao Takashima
Osamu Sakurai
Kenji Sahara
Kazuo Fujita
Yū Fujiki
Kinzaburo Furue
Ichirō Arishima
Director Tako
Jun Tazaki
General Masami Shinzo
Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Shigezawa
Mie Hama
Fumiko Sakurai
Akiko Wakabayashi
Tamiye
Akemi Negishi
Chikiro's Mother
Yoshio Kosugi
Farou Island Chief
Yoshibumi Tajima
Yukichi Yamamoto captain of the Shinsei-Maru No. 2
Ikio Sawamura
Witch Doctor
Kō Mishima
Official
Sachio Sakai
Obayashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Two different endings were shot — the Japanese version has Kong clearly winning, while the American edit plays it ambiguous.
This was the first color Godzilla film and Toho's highest-grossing monster movie until Shin Godzilla in 2016.
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