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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Screenplay by | Shinichi Sekizawa |
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| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
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| Language | Japanese |
Invasion of Astro-Monster (怪獣大戦争 Kaijū Daisensō, lit. The Giant Monster War) is a 1965 Japanese American science fiction kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. The film is directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Akira Takarada, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Akira Kubo, and Yoshio Tsuchiya, with Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla. It is the sixth film in the Godzilla franchise and Shōwa series.
The film was a co-production between Toho and UPA, which led to new introductions to the film and the inclusion of an American actor Nick Adams. The film was released in Japan on December 19, 1965 and released in the United States on May 7, 1970, on a double bill with The War of the Gargantuas.
In the year 197X, two astronauts, Fuji and Glenn, are sent to investigate the surface of the mysterious "Planet X". There they encounter advanced and seemingly benevolent human-like beings called the Xiliens and their leader the Controller. The aliens usher the astronauts into their underground base, and moments later the surface is attacked by a creature the Xiliens call "Monster Zero", but which the astronauts recognize as King Ghidorah, a planet-destroying monster that had attacked Earth once before. The monster eventually leaves, but the Controller states that Ghidorah has been attacking repeatedly, forcing them to live underground in constant fear. He requests to borrow the Earth monsters Godzilla and Rodan to act as sentries against Ghidorah's attacks, in return for the cure for cancer (the English dub says the formula can cure any disease). The astronauts return to Earth and deliver the message.
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