War of the Gargantuas
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by |
Tomoyuki Tanaka Henry G. Saperstein |
| Written by |
Ishirō Honda Takeshi Kimura |
| Starring |
Russ Tamblyn Kumi Mizuno Kenji Sahara Kipp Hamilton |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by |
Ryohei Fujii Frederic Knudtson (USA) |
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Toho Benedict Motion Picture Corp. (USA) |
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88 minutes (Japan) 92 minutes (USA) |
| Country | Japan United States |
| Language | Japanese |
The War of the Gargantuas, released in Japan as Frankenstein's Monsters: Sanda vs. Gaira (フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ Furankenshutain no Kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira?), is a 1966 Japanese-American science fiction kaiju film co-produced by Toho and UPA. The film is a sequel to the 1965 film Frankenstein Conquers the World and is directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, and Kenji Sahara, with Yû Sekida and Haruo Nakajima as the performers for the Gargantuas, Sanda and Gaira.
The film tells the story of two giant, hairy humanoids called Frankensteins (Gargantuas in the American version) that were spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster from the previous film. A green one raised in the sea named Gaira (ガイラ?, from kai, "sea") is violent and savage, while a brown one who resides in the Japan Alps, named Sanda (サンダ?, from san, "mountain") is friendly and docile. The film follows the investigation and military engagements of these creatures until their climactic confrontation in Tokyo.
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