Gamera vs. Barugon
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| Directed by | Shigeo Tanaka |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
| Written by | Nisan Takahashi |
| Starring | Kōjirō Hongō Kyōko Enami |
| Music by | Chūji Kinoshita |
| Cinematography | Michio Takahashi |
| Edited by | Tatsuji Nakashizu |
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Daiei Film (Japan) AIP-TV (USA) |
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100 min. (Japan) 88 min. (USA) |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Gamera vs. Barugon (大怪獣決闘 ガメラ対バルゴン Daikaijū Kettō: Gamera Tai Barugon?, Giant Monster Duel: Gamera Versus Barugon, released in the U.S. as War of the Monsters) is a 1966 Japanese science fiction tokusatsu kaiju film featuring Gamera, produced and distributed by Daiei Motion Picture Company. It is the second installment in the Gamera franchise and was released straight to television in the United States by AIP-TV as War of the Monsters, and then later by Sandy Frank as Gamera vs. Barugon. It was one of five Gamera films to appear in the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. This is the only film of the Showa Gamera series that does not feature one or more preteen children as the main human characters
Set after the events of Gamera, a meteorite collides with the rocket transporting the creature to Mars. Now free, Gamera returns to Earth and destroys Kurobe Dam in Japan. At the same time three mercenaries are sent by Kano, a World War II veteran, to an island in the South Pacific to retrieve a huge opal he once found and hid in a cave. Despite warnings from the local villagers, the trio find and locate the opal, but one dies from a fatal scorpion sting. The second man, Keisuke, Kano's younger brother, is betrayed by his fellow expeditioner Onodera and apparently killed in a cave-in.
En route back to Japan, Onodera accidentally leaves the opal exposed to an infrared light. The heat incubates the opal - actually an egg - and a lizard eventually hatches. Growing to enormous size very quickly, the lizard destroys the ship and Kobe Harbor. Keisuke, having survived the cave-in, awakens in the care of the villagers. He then returns to Japan with a village girl called Karen, who refers to the lizard as Barugon. Barugon wreaks havoc in Osaka with its freezing breath and stops the launching of the retaliative missiles with a rainbow emanation from its back. Barugon encounters Gamera and the two battle, with Gamera eventually being frozen solid.
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