Destroy All Monsters
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
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| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Taiichi Kankura |
| Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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88 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Destroy All Monsters (怪獣総進撃 Kaijū Sōshingeki?) is a 1968 Japanese science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film is ninth entry in the original Godzilla series and stars Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi and Yoshio Tsuchiya. The film story features aliens known as Kilaaks, who have released the giant monsters from Monster Island, and have planted mind-control devices on the monsters to control them. The monsters are eventually freed from the mind control, and which leads the aliens to release King Ghidorah from space to challenge them.
The film was written by Honda and Takeshi Kimura who introduced the concept of Monster Island into the Godzilla film series. The film featured some complete new costumes for monsters such as Godzilla and some that were altered since their appearance in previous films. The film was not as successful in the box office in Japan as previous Godzilla films with critics from Variety and Monthly Film Bulletin praising the final monster fight, but finding the rest of the film making (direction, sets, acting) to be of low quality.
At the close of the 20th century, all of the Earth's kaiju have been collected by the United Nations Science Committee and confined in an area known as Monsterland, located in the Ogasawara island chain. A special control center is constructed underneath the island to ensure that the monsters stay secure, and to serve as a research facility to study them.
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