Dogora
| Dogora, the Space Monster | |
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Original Japanese poster
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by |
Yasuyoshi Tajitsu Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Written by |
Jojiro Okami (story) Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Starring |
Yosuke Natsuki Yōko Fujiyama Hiroshi Koizumi Nobuo Nakamura Robert Dunham Akiko Wakabayashi Jun Tazaki Susumu Fujita Seizaburô Kawazu Eisei Amamoto |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Release date
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August 11, 1964 (Japan) |
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Running time
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83 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Dogara, the Space Monster, released in Japan as Uchū Daikaijū Dogora (宇宙大怪獣ドゴラ?, lit. "Giant Space Monster Dogora"), is a 1964 Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishirō Honda and featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred Nobuo Nakamura, Akiko Wakabayashi, and Hollywood actor Robert Dunham. The film tells the story of a huge jellyfish-like creature from space that attacks Japan.
The film was released straight to television in the United States, in the Winter of 1966 by American International Television as Dagora, the Space Monster.
When several TV satellites launched by the Electric Wave Laboratory go missing above Japan in Earth's orbit, it is found out that they have inadvertently collided with unidentified protoplasmic "space cells" of unknown origin. A similar creature suddenly thwarted the efforts of a local branch of the International Diamond Robbery Ring. The diamonds they sought vanished, and similar unexplained events continued to occur across the globe.
Meanwhile, Inspector Komai's (Yosuke Natsuki) investigation of these strange events led him to the crystallographer Dr. Munakata (Nobuo Nakamura). In the process of tracking down the self-proclaimed diamond broker Mark Jackson (Robert Dunham). He finds him in Dr. Munakata's home but knocks him out and escapes from Komai. He is then picked up by the gangsters for questioning. Komai wakes up and is greeted by Dr. Munakata and his lab assistant Masayo Kirino (Yoko Fujiyama). He tells them about the case he is working on and shows them pictures of the melted safe the gangsters were at that night. Komai then learns that the diamonds the Mark stole were synthetic and worth nothing.
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