
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
Toshio Takashima
Lighting Technician
Hiroshi Mukoyama
Visual Effects
Kenji Aoki
Choreographer

Sadamasa Arikawa
Special Effects
Teruaki Abe
Production Design

Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography

Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects

George Worthing Yates
Original Story
Takeo Kita
Production Design

Koichi Kawakita
Special Effects Assistant

Akira Watanabe
Visual Effects Art Director

Motoyoshi Tomioka
Special Effects

Sadamasa Arikawa
VFX Director of Photography
Yukio Manoda
Visual Effects Camera
Herman Stein
Music

Masakatsu Asai
Special Effects

Koji Kajita
First Assistant Director

Henry Mancini
Music

Koichi Kawakita
Visual Effects Camera
Takashi Narita
Visual Effects Production Manager

Koji Hashimoto
Assistant Director

Motoyoshi Tomioka
VFX Director of Photography
Sadamasa Nishimoto
Sound Effects

Koichi Kawakita
Special Effects
Shigeru Nakamura
Production Manager
Takao Saiwai
Visual Effects
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Music

Kuichirô Kishida
VFX Lighting Artist

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects Director
Willis H. O'Brien
Original Story

Seiji Tani
Assistant Director

Kuichirô Kishida
Lighting Technician

Masakatsu Asai
Special Effects Assistant
Yukio Manoda
Visual Effects

Yasuyuki Inoue
Visual Effects Art Director

Eizo Kaimai
Modeling

Toshiro Aoki
Special Effects Assistant
Yoshio Irie
Special Effects Assistant
Yasuei Yagi
Modeling

Yôichi Manoda
Special Effects

Teizô Toshimitsu
Modeling
Kyuzo Yamamoto
Property Master

Teizô Toshimitsu
Costume Designer

Eizo Kaimai
Costume Designer
Kanju Yagi
Costume Designer

Toshiro Aoki
Visual Effects Art Director
Kanju Yagi
Modeling
Takashi Nakao
Still Photographer

Yasuyuki Inoue
Special Effects Assistant

Yôichi Manoda
Visual Effects Camera
Yasuei Yagi
Costume Designer

Jiro Shirasaki
Visual Effects Art Director

Sadao Iizuka
Visual Effects

Teizô Toshimitsu
Sculptor

Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects

Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects Assistant

Yôichi Manoda
Special Effects Assistant

Jiro Shirasaki
Special Effects Assistant
Yoshio Irie
Visual Effects Art Director

Fuchimu Shimakura
Matte Painter

Fuchimu Shimakura
Background Designer
Paul Mason
Writer

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





