War of the Gargantuas

War of the Gargantuas
Credits
Title:	War of the Gargantuas
Genres:	Sci-fi Horror
Directed by:	Ishirô Honda
Written by:	Reuben Bercovitch; Ishirô Honda; Takeshi Kimura
Produced by:	Reuben Bercovitch; Henry G. Saperstein; Tomoyuki Tanaka; Kenichirô Tsunoda
Music by:	Akira Ifukube
Cinematography:	Hajime Koizumi
Edited by:	Ryôhei Fujii
Production
Distributed by:	Toho Company, Ltd. United Productions of America
Released:	July 31st, 1966
Rating:	G
Running time:	92 min.
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese
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Cast

Actor	Role
Russ Tamblyn	Doctor Paul Stewart
Kumi Mizuno	Doctor Akemi Togawa
Kenji Sahara	Doctor Yuzo Majida
Nobuo Nakamura	Doctor Kita
Jun Tazaki	General
Hisaya Itô	Police chief
Yoshifumi Tajima	Police officer
Ren Yamamoto	Sailor
Kipp Hamilton	Singer
Kôzô Nomura	General's aide
Nadao Kirino	Soldier
Shôichi Hirose	Soldier
Tadashi Okabe	Defiant reporter
Hideo Shibuya	Skeptical reporter
Ikio Sawamura	Fisherman #1
Seishirô Kuno	Fisherman #2
Senshô Matsumoto	Official
Gorô Mutsumi	Doctor Paul Stewart (voice)
Haruo Nakajima	Gaira
Yû Sekida	Sanda
Yû Fujiki	Unknown

Notes

• Copyright holder: © 1966, Toho Company, Ltd.

• War of the Gargantuas (1966) redirects to this page.

• The original Japanese title for this film is, Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira (フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ), which translates to, Frankenstein's Monsters: Sanda versus Gaira.

• War of the Gargantuas was released in the United States on July 29th, 1970 by Henry G. Saperstein's company, United Productions of America (UPA).

• War of the Gargantuas was released on DVD in 2009 as part of a double-feature along with Rodan by Classic Media.

• Screenwriter Takeshi Kimura is credited as Kaoru Mabuchi in this film.

• Actor Russ Tamblyn is credited as Rasu Tanburin in this film.

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See also

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External Links

• War of the Gargantuas at IMDB
• War of the Gargantuas at Wikipedia
• War of the Gargantuas at Toho Kingdom
• War of the Gargantuas at Themoviedb.org
• War of the Gargantuas at the Godzilla Wiki

Keywords

1960s; Giant animal; Giant monster; Giant octopus; Honshu; Japan; Nagano Prefecture; Tokyo

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