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Directed by | Jun Fukuda |
Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
Screenplay by | Shinichi Sekizawa |
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Music by | Masaru Sato |
Cinematography | Kazuo Yamada |
Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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87 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ 南海の大決闘? Gojira, Ebira, Mosura Nankai no Daikettō) is a 1966 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa and supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film stars Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, and Eisei Amamoto.
After Yata (Toru Ibuki) is lost at sea, his brother Ryota (Toru Watanabe) steals a yacht with his two friends and a bank robber, the crew runs afoul of the giant lobster Ebirah, and washes up on the shore of Letchi Island, where a terrorist organization manufactures heavy water for their purposes, as well as a chemical that keeps Ebirah at bay. The organization, known as the Red Bamboo, has enslaved natives from Infant Island to help them, but the natives hope to awaken Mothra (now a full-grown moth metamorphosed from the larva that appeared in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster) to rescue them.
In their efforts to avoid capture, Ryota and his friends, aided by a beautiful native girl, stumble across Godzilla sleeping within a cliffside cavern. The group devises a plan to defeat the Red Bamboo and escape from the island. In the process, they wake Godzilla using a makeshift lightning rod. Godzilla fights Ebirah, but the giant crustacean escapes. Godzilla is then attacked by Daikondoro, a giant condor, and a squadron of Red Bamboo fighter jets, but destroys them.