), is a 1967 Kaiju film. Greenman. A group planning to build a resort hotel land on the island and discover it to be inhabited by giant... See full summary », An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. Directed by Ishirô Honda. His partner, Madame Piranha, is an Asian spy played by Mie Hama, fresh from the Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967). Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. [17], Contemporary American reviews were mixed. So, it instead decided to use MechaniKong. Dr. Who arrives Mondo Island to hunt Kong to use as a prisoner, those helicopters launched an gassed bomb to unconscious the ape and carried by an larger ship. Here, the giant ape gets into an intense fight with a giant dinosaur Gorosaurus and a sea serpent. The film is a loose adaptation of the Rankin/Bass Productions Saturday morning cartoon TV series The King Kong Show and was the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong. As an insurance policy they kidnap Lt. Susan Miller as well as her boyfriend Lt. CommanderJiro Nomura and Cmdr. [16] In France, the film sold 1,014,593 tickets. [10], Outside Japan and the U.S, the film received a wide release in most international markets, where it went by different titles. But when the gargantua from the ... See full summary ». There were going to be many different strange worlds inside Godzilla. View production, box office, & company info. An evil genius named Dr. Who creates Mechani-Kong, a robot version of King Kong, to dig for the highly radioactive Element X, found only at the North Pole. [21][22], Original Japanese theatrical release poster.

That concept (minus the boy) is combined with a mad scientist story with elements from the then-popular spy film genre. A giant, ancient moth begins to attack Japan when coming to the rescue of its two, foot-tall worshippers who were taken by shipwreck survivors. As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life ... your 30s. Then Kong triumphantly swims back to his island home. With Rhodes Reason, Mie Hama, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada. this film was special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. KING KONG ESCAPES (1967) Japanese version Movies Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Problems with the earpiece ensue and Who has to kidnap Susan Watson, the only person who can control Kong. Frees apparently asked Reason why he was there and said as a joke: "Why are you here? [9], Afterwards it was screened as part of a specialty festival in 1983 called The Godzilla Resurrection Festival (Gojira no Fukkatsu). Kong attacked Who inside the giant ship, wrecked and destroyed in the entire sea, Kong victoriously wins and leaving swimmingly Kong went, Japan to Mondo Island instead. The Earth is attacked by a giant jellyfish monster from outer space that, for some reason, has a sweet tooth for diamonds. Susan and the others also escape. Who commands Kong to retrieve Element X from the cave. They then were going to do battle with Godzilla from within while MechaniKong continued to do battle with him from without. Kong goes on a rampage to Tokyo, an JSDF tanks surrounded the ape, an Mechani-Kong upsets catches Susan kidnapped, running the robot follows to the Tokyo Tower. [6], The shot of Gorosaurus living on Monster Island seen in the 1969 film All Monsters Attack was actually stock footage taken from this film. Toho managed to get some use out of the suit, though. However, when they get there they find an uncharted lake ... See full summary ». The sinister Dr. Who (not to be confused with the British television series, its main character or his film version) is patterned after James Bond villains Dr. No and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.