"--06-26"^^ . . "56142"^^ . . . . "$12,000+"@en . "5460.0"^^ . . . . . "Mr. Tako, head of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, is frustrated with the television shows his company is sponsoring and wants something to boost his ratings. When a doctor tells Tako about a giant monster he discovered on the small Faro Island, Tako believes that it would be a brilliant idea to use the monster to gain publicity. Tako immediately sends two men, Sakurai and Kinsaburo, to find and bring back the monster from Faro. Meanwhile, the American submarine Seahawk gets caught in an iceberg. Unfortunately, this is the same iceberg that the mutant dinosaur Godzilla was trapped in by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces back in 1955, and the submarine is destroyed by the monster. As an American rescue helicopter circles the iceberg, Godzilla breaks out and heads towards a nearby Arctic military base, attacking it. The base itself is ineffective against Godzilla. He continues moving inland, razing the base to the ground, and sends the tank armory up in flames. Godzilla's appearance is all over the press, making Tako furious. Meanwhile on Faro Island, a giant octopus (known as the Oodako) attacks the native village. The mysterious Faro monster is then revealed to be the giant gorilla, King Kong and he arrives and defeats the octopus. King Kong then drinks some red berry juice, becomes intoxicated, and then falls asleep. Sakurai and Kinsaburo place Kong on a large raft and begin to transport him back to Japan. Back at Pacific Pharmaceuticals, Tako is finally glad because Kong is now all over the press instead of Godzilla. Mr. Tako arrives on the ship transporting Kong, but a JSDF ship stops them and orders them to return Kong to Faro Island. Godzilla had just come ashore in Japan and destroyed a train, and the JSDF doesn't want another monster entering Japan. Unfortunately, during all this, Kong wakes up from his drunken state and breaks free from the raft. Reaching the mainland, Kong meets up with Godzilla in a valley. Tako, Sakurai, and Kinsaburo have difficulty avoiding the JSDF to watch the fight. Eventually they find a spot. Kong throws some large rocks at Godzilla, but Godzilla shoots his atomic breath at Kong's chest, forcing the giant ape to retreat. The JSDF desperately tries everything to stop Godzilla from entering Tokyo. In a fielded area outside the city, they dig a large pit laden with explosives and lure Godzilla into it, but Godzilla is unharmed. They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1,000,000 volts of electricity (300,000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back). The electricity is too much for Godzilla, who then moves away from the city towards the Mt. Fuji area. Later at night, Kong approaches Tokyo. He tears through the power lines, feeding off the electricity which seems to make him stronger. Kong then attacks Tokyo and holds Fumiko, a woman from a train and Sakurai's sister, hostage. The JSDF explodes capsules full of the berry juice from Faro Island and knock out Kong, while Sakurai rescues Fumiko. The JSDF then decides to transport Kong via balloons to Godzilla, in hope that they will fight each other to their deaths. The next morning, King Kong is dumbo-dropped onto the summit of Mt. Fuji from the balloon air-lift, meets up with Godzilla, and the two begin to fight. Godzilla has the advantage at first, eventually knocking Kong down with a vicious drop kick, and battering the gorilla unconscious with powerful tail attacks to his forehead. When Godzilla tries to kill Kong with his atomic breath, an electrical storm arrives and revives Kong, giving him the power of an electric grasp. The two begin to fight again, with the revitalized Kong swinging Godzilla around by his tail, shoving a tree into Godzilla's mouth, and judo tossing him over his shoulder. The brawl between the two monsters continues all the way down to the coastline. Eventually the monsters tear through Atami Castle and Kong drags Godzilla into the Pacific Ocean. After an underwater battle, only King Kong emerges from the water and begins to slowly swim back home to Faro Island. As Kong swims home, onlookers aren't sure if Godzilla survived the underwater fight, but speculate that it was possible."@en . . . . . "Universal International"@en . . "Teruaki Abe, Takeo Kita"@en . . . . . . . . . "3.5E8"^^ . . . . "Godzilla vs. the Thing"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Japan:"@en . "Not rated"@en . . . . "United States:"@en . . . . . . . . . "Japanese version:"@en . . "Mothra vs. Godzilla"@en . . "Tomoyuki Tanaka"@en . . "Mothra vs. Godzilla"@en . . . . "Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira"@en . . . . "King Kong Escapes"@en . "56142"^^ . . . . . "Universal International"@en . "Toho Company Ltd."@en . . . . . . "1963-06-26"^^ . . . . "5880.0"^^ . "King Kong vs. Godzilla (\u30AD\u30F3\u30B0\u30B3\u30F3\u30B0\u5BFE\u30B4\u30B8\u30E9 Kingu Kongu tai Gojira) is a film directed by Ishir\u014D Honda."@en . "John Beck"@en . . . . . ""@en . . . . . "Sei Ikeno, Hachiro Matsui"@en . . . . . . ""@en . . . . "Theatrical poster to King Kong vs. Godzilla"@en . . "Much of the overt comedy of the film disappears in the re-edited version released in America by Universal International. Producer John Beck cut large amounts of the Japanese footage and replaced it with new footage of American actors playing newscasters commenting on the action. The score by Akira Ifukube was also replaced with library music, much of it replaced by stock music from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon by Henry Mancini. The film had its roots in earlier concepts for a new Kong feature put out by Willis O'Brien in his search to fund another film starring the famous ape. In O'Brien's original proposed treatment, the gorilla King Kong fought against a giant version of the Frankenstein creature. After American producer John Beck sold the concept to Toho Studios (much to O'Brien's dismay), the Japanese executives replaced the Frankenstein monster with their own flagship giant monster, Godzilla. This was the first color feature for either monster."@en . . . . . "4920.0"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "King Kong vs. Godzilla"@en . . . . . . "#000000"@en . "Godzilla Raids Again"@en . . . . "Shinichi Sekizawa, Willis O'Brien, George Worthing Yates"@en . . ""@en . "--08-11"^^ . . . "Ishir\u014D Honda"@en . "Hajime Koizumi"@en . "5460.0"^^ . . . . . . . . ""@en . "King Kong vs. Godzilla (\u30AD\u30F3\u30B0\u30B3\u30F3\u30B0\u5BFE\u30B4\u30B8\u30E9 Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira) is a 1962 Japanese science fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishir\u014D Honda with visual effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, and Mie Hama. It is the third installment in the Godzilla film series and the first of two Japanese-produced films featuring King Kong and also the first time both characters appeared on film in color and widescreen. Produced as part of Toho's 30th anniversary celebration, this film remains the most commercially successful of all the Godzilla films to date.[2]"@en . "Reiko Kaneko"@en . . . . . . . . . "Much of the overt comedy of the film disappears in the re-edited version released in America by Universal International. Producer John Beck cut large amounts of the Japanese footage and replaced it with new footage of American actors playing newscasters commenting on the action. The score by Akira Ifukube was also replaced with library music, much of it replaced by stock music from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon by Henry Mancini."@en . . "3.5E8"^^ . . . "Godzilla Raids Again"@en . . . . "George Worthing Yates"@en . "Godzilla Raids Again"@en . "The film was released in the United States in the summer of 1963 by Universal Studios."@en . "1962-08-11"^^ . . "An American production team produced a heavily altered English version that used new scenes, sound and dubbing. The American production was released theatrically in the United States in the summer of 1963 by Universal International."@en . "Koji Kawakita"@en . . . . "King Kong vs. Godzilla (\u30AD\u30F3\u30B0\u30B3\u30F3\u30B0\u5BFE\u30B4\u30B8\u30E9 Kingu Kongu tai Gojira) is a film directed by Ishir\u014D Honda."@en . . . . . . "King Kong vs. Godzilla"@en . . . . . "King Kong vs. Godzilla (\u30AD\u30F3\u30B0\u30B3\u30F3\u30B0\u5BFE\u30B4\u30B8\u30E9 Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira) is a 1962 Japanese science fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishir\u014D Honda with visual effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, and Mie Hama. It is the third installment in the Godzilla film series and the first of two Japanese-produced films featuring King Kong and also the first time both characters appeared on film in color and widescreen. Produced as part of Toho's 30th anniversary celebration, this film remains the most commercially successful of all the Godzilla films to date.[2] An American production team produced a heavily altered English version that used new scenes, sound and dubbing. The American production was released theatrically in the United States in the summer of 1963 by Universal International."@en . . . . . . . . ""@en . . "Japanese"@en . "The film was released in the United States in the summer of 1963 by Universal Studios."@en . . . . . . "King Kong vs. Godzilla"@en . "5880.0"^^ . . . . . "Mr. Tako, head of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, is frustrated with the television shows his company is sponsoring and wants something to boost his ratings. When a doctor tells Tako about a giant monster he discovered on the small Faro Island, Tako believes that it would be a brilliant idea to use the monster to gain publicity. Tako immediately sends two men, Sakurai and Kinsaburo, to find and bring back the monster from Faro."@en . . "Tomoyuki Tanaka, John Beck"@en . "king_kong_vs_godzilla"@en . . . "Original theatrical poster"@en . . . . . . . "5820.0"^^ . "English version:"@en . . "An American production team produced a heavily altered English version that used new scenes, sound and dubbing. The American production was released theatrically in the United States in the summer of 1963 by Universal International."@en . "The Son of Kong"@en . . "5000000.0"^^ . . .