
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
6.6|26 Jun, 1963|96 min
The Terrifying Battle Between The Mightiest Monsters of All Time!
6.6|26 Jun, 1963|96 min
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When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.
Language
Budget$12,000
Revenue $2,700,000
English
Budget$12,000
Revenue $2,700,000
Keywords
island
iceberg
giant monster
dinosaur
alternate version
kaiju
giant ape
giant octopus
godzilla
mount fuji, japan
king kong
tokusatsu
Casts

Michael Keith
Eric Carter

Harry Holcombe
Dr. Arnold Johnson

James Yagi
Yutaka Omura

Tadao Takashima
Osamu Sakurai

Kenji Sahara
Kazuo Fujita (as Keji Sahaka)

Ichirō Arishima
Mr. Tako (as Ichiro Arishima)

George Takei
Osamu Sakurai (voice) (uncredited)

Les Tremayne
Mr. Tako / Dr. Shigesawa / Dr. Akira Makino / General Masami Shinzo / Commander Roberts / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Byron Morrow
Newscaster (uncredited)

Mie Hama
Fumiko Sakurai (uncredited)

Akiko Wakabayashi
Tamiye (uncredited)

Akemi Negishi
Chikiro's Mother (Dancing Girl) (uncredited)

Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Shigezawa (uncredited)

Yū Fujiki
Kinzaburo Furue (uncredited)

Jun Tazaki
General Masami Shinzo (uncredited)

Yoshio Kosugi
Faro Island Chief (uncredited)

Ikio Sawamura
Witch Doctor (uncredited)

Kenzō Tabu
Dreary Newscaster (uncredited)

Tatsuo Matsumura
Dr. Akira Makino (uncredited)

Victor Millan
Rodrigo Infanta (uncredited)
Douglas Fein
Commander Roberts (uncredited)

Haruo Nakajima
Godzilla (uncredited)

Shōichi Hirose
King Kong (uncredited)

Katsumi Tezuka
Godzilla in iceberg (uncredited)
Paul Mason
Misc. Characters (voice) (uncredited)
Bruce Howard
Misc. Characters (voice) (uncredited)
Crews
Peter Zinner
Music Supervisor
William L. Stevenson
Sound Effects

Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects

George Worthing Yates
Original Story

Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography
Toshio Takashima
Lighting Technician

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects
Kenji Aoki
Choreographer

Sadamasa Arikawa
Special Effects
Hiroshi Mukoyama
Visual Effects
Takeo Kita
Production Design
Teruaki Abe
Production Design
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Music

Henry Mancini
Music
Herman Stein
Music

Koichi Kawakita
Special Effects

Koichi Kawakita
Special Effects Assistant

Masakatsu Asai
Special Effects

Masakatsu Asai
Special Effects Assistant

Motoyoshi Tomioka
Special Effects

Akira Watanabe
Visual Effects Art Director

Koji Kajita
First Assistant Director

Koji Hashimoto
Assistant Director

Seiji Tani
Assistant Director

Kuichirô Kishida
Lighting Technician
Shigeru Nakamura
Production Manager
Sadamasa Nishimoto
Sound Effects

Motoyoshi Tomioka
VFX Director of Photography

Sadamasa Arikawa
VFX Director of Photography

Kuichirô Kishida
VFX Lighting Artist

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects Director
Takao Saiwai
Visual Effects
Yukio Manoda
Visual Effects
Yukio Manoda
Visual Effects Camera

Koichi Kawakita
Visual Effects Camera
Takashi Narita
Visual Effects Production Manager
Willis H. O'Brien
Original Story
Kyuzo Yamamoto
Property Master

Teizô Toshimitsu
Sculptor
Takashi Nakao
Still Photographer

Teizô Toshimitsu
Costume Designer
Kanju Yagi
Costume Designer
Yasuei Yagi
Costume Designer

Eizo Kaimai
Costume Designer

Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects

Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects Assistant

Yôichi Manoda
Special Effects

Yôichi Manoda
Special Effects Assistant

Toshiro Aoki
Visual Effects Art Director

Toshiro Aoki
Special Effects Assistant

Jiro Shirasaki
Visual Effects Art Director

Jiro Shirasaki
Special Effects Assistant

Yasuyuki Inoue
Special Effects Assistant

Yasuyuki Inoue
Visual Effects Art Director
Yoshio Irie
Special Effects Assistant
Yoshio Irie
Visual Effects Art Director

Teizô Toshimitsu
Modeling
Kanju Yagi
Modeling
Yasuei Yagi
Modeling

Eizo Kaimai
Modeling

Sadao Iizuka
Visual Effects

Yôichi Manoda
Visual Effects Camera

Fuchimu Shimakura
Background Designer

Fuchimu Shimakura
Matte Painter
Paul Mason
Writer

John Beck
Producer
Thomas Montgomery
Director
Hans J. Salter
Music
Heinz Roemheld
Music
Paul Sawtell
Music

Keizô Murase
Sculptor

Keizô Murase
Costume Designer

Ishirō Honda
Director
Bruce Howard
Writer

Shinichi Sekizawa
Screenplay
Peter Zinner
Supervising Film Editor
Reiko Kaneko
Editor

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Bert Shefter
Music

Akira Ifukube
Music
Hachiro Matsui
Music
Peter Zinner
Music Editor
William L. Stevenson
Sound Effects Editor
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Mixer
Masao Fujiyoshi
Sound Recordist

Koichi Takano
Special Effects
Hiroshi Mukoyama
Visual Effects Compositor
Taka Yuki
Visual Effects

Haruo Nakajima
Stunts

Shōichi Hirose
Stunts

Masakatsu Asai
Visual Effects

Masakatsu Asai
Visual Effects Director

Teruyoshi Nakano
Visual Effects

Teruyoshi Nakano
Visual Effects Director
Tôru Suzuki
Special Effects
Tôru Suzuki
Special Effects Assistant
Backdrops & Posters





