Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
Practical Effects
Suit actor Haruo Nakajima in his second monster role ever.
Direction
Honda's moody alpine atmosphere before budgets exploded.
Production
Miniature village destruction that aged like fine cheese.
Director
Ishirō Honda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Toho rushed this to theaters just six months after King Kong's 1954 Japanese re-release, desperate to replicate that box office magic.
The Snowman suit was so heavy that actor Haruo Nakajima passed out from heat exhaustion during the underwater cave scenes—the same man who'd become Godzilla for 12 straight films.
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