Godzilla vs. Gigan
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| Directed by | Jun Fukuda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
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Takeshi Kimura Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Starring | Hiroshi Ishikawa Tomoko Umeda Yuriko Hishimi Minoru Takashima Zan Fujita Toshiaki Nishizawa Kunio Murai |
| Music by |
Akira Ifukube Kunio Miyauchi |
| Cinematography | Kiyoshi Hasegawa |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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89 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Godzilla vs. Gigan, released in Japan as Chikyū Kōgeki Meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan (地球攻撃命令 ゴジラ対ガイガン?, lit. "Earth Destruction Directive: Godzilla vs. Gigan"), is a 1972 Japanese science-fiction kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano, the film starred Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, and Minoru Takashima. The twelfth film of the Godzilla series, this film featured the return of Godzilla's foe King Ghidorah. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka was displeased with the previous film, Godzilla vs. Hedorah, and wanted to return the series to the more traditional route of well known monsters and an alien invasion plot. This was the last film in which Godzilla was portrayed by Haruo Nakajima, who had played the character since the first film in 1954.
The film received a limited theatrical release in the United States in 1977 by Cinema Shares as Godzilla on Monster Island.
Giant insectoid aliens from a dying planet in "Space Hunter Nebula-M" plot to colonize the Earth. The aliens assume the forms of dead humans and work as the development staff of the peace-themed theme park, World Children's Land, the centerpiece of which is "Godzilla Tower". The Nebula-M aliens plan to use the space monsters Gigan and King Ghidorah, guided by two "Action Signal Tapes," to wipe out human civilization.
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