Furankenshutain No Kaiju: Sanda Tai Gaira (1966)

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Japanese version: The sole survivor of a Japanese fishing boat is hospitalized in extreme shock, and later tells a story that no one wants to believe. In the woods, campers and hikers disappear and leave only chewed-up clothes, and other people report sightings of hairy giants. An American scientist investigates, then a Japanese scientist recounts what happened years earlier in Furankenshutain tai chitei kaiju Baragon (1965). He had found a mutated feral boy with a flat head, named it Frankenstein, and it grew 20 feet tall, rampaged, and was destroyed. Now there is another Frankenstein, only it is 100 feet tall with brown fur all over. There also is a second monster just like it, only with green skin and fur, and it eats people. Both had grown out of fragments of the first monster's body. Both Frankensteins are nearly indestructible, both team up against the armed forces, and more monsters can grow from them. Then these Frankensteins turn against each other and wage a battle to the bitter end, with the city of Tokyo as their battle arena. American version: same as above, only the monsters are named Gargantuas, the green Gargantua had grown from a piece of the brown Gargantua's body, and the brown Gargantua's origin is unknown. Also Known As: The War of the Gargantuas Title: Furankenshutain No Kaiju: Sanda Tai Gaira Release Date: July 29, 1970 Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Horror All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi Languages: Japanese Country: Japan Colors: Color Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 6.1 Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.1 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With F MPAA Rating: G Director(s): Ishiro Honda Cast: Russ Tamblyn ...Dr. Paul Stewart Kumi Mizuno ...Akemi Kenji Sahara ...Dr. yuzo Majida Nobuo Nakamura ...Dr. Kita Jun Tazaki ...General Hisaya Ito ...Police Chief yoshifumi Tajima ...Police Officer Ren yamamoto ...Sailor Kipp Hamilton ...Singer Kozo Nomura ...General's Aide Nadao Kirino ...Soldier Shoichi Hirose ...Soldier Tadashi Okabe ...Defiant Reporter Koji Uno ...Dumb Reporter Ikio Sawamura ...Fisherman #1 Seishiro Kuno ...Fisherman #2 Sensho Matsumoto ...Official Goro Mutsumi ...Dr. Paul Stewart (voice) Haruo Nakajima ...Gaira yu Sekida ...Sanda yu Fujiki ... Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Reuben Bercovitch Reuben Bercovitch Henry G. Saperstein Tomoyuki Tanaka Kenichiro Tsunoda Writer(s): Reuben Bercovitch Ishiro Honda Takeshi Kimura Composer(s): Akira Ifukube More Photos from Furankenshutain No Kaiju: Sanda Tai Gaira Movie Trivia: This film was a sequel to the film Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijū Baragon (1965). However, all references to the previous film were cut from the American version of this film. When the film was released in America, Russ Tamblyn had to re-dub his own voice because of a malfunction in the soundtrack. In one draft of the script, the film was to end with the volcano not only destroying Sanda and Gaira, but the lava was to destroy Tokyo and the remaining cells of the two monsters as well. Tab Hunter was originally chosen to play Doctor Paul Stewart. IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Frankenstein, Octopus, Napalm, Sequel, Man Eating Monster  ...[more] Keywords All: Giant Monster, Giant Squid, Multiplication, Clone, Biology Seen it? Rate it Currently 7.10/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 7.1 out of 10.0 - 61 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST