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King Kong Escapes is a japonais film of genre Science fiction directed by Ishirō Honda released in USA on 16 july 1968 with Akira Takarada
King Kong Escapes (1967)
Kingu Kongu no gyakushu
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 16 july 1968
Length 1h44
Directed by Ishirō Honda
OriginJapon
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Kaiju films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Films about apes, King Kong films, Giant monster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Robot films, Disaster films
Rating55%
King Kong Escapes, (released in Japan as King Kong's Counterattack (キングコングの逆襲, Kingu Kongu no Gyakushū), is a 1967 Kaiju film. A Japanese/American co-production from Toho (Japan) and Rankin/Bass (USA). Directed by Ishiro Honda and featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred both American actors (such as Rhodes Reason and Linda Miller) alongside Japanese actors (such as Akira Takarada, Mie Hama and Eisei Amamoto). The film was a loose adaptation of the Rankin/Bass Saturday morning cartoon series The King Kong Show and was the second and final Japanese-made film featuring the King Kong character.
The film was released theatrically in the United States by Universal Pictures in the summer of 1968.
Synopsis
An evil genius named Dr. Who creates Mechani-Kong, a robotic version of King Kong, to dig for a highly radioactive Element X, found only at the North Pole. Mechani-Kong enters an ice cave and begins to dig into a glacier, but the radiation destroys its brain circuits and the robot shuts down. Who then sets his sights on getting the real Kong to finish the job. Who is taken to task by a beautiful female overseer, Madame Piranha. Her country's government is financing the doctor's schemes, and she frequently berates him for his failure to get results.Actors
Akira Takarada
(Lt. Commander Jiro Nomura)
Rhodes Reason
(Commander Carl Nelson)
Mie Hama
(Madame Piranha)
Hideyo Amamoto
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Ryūji Kita
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