King Kong Escapes
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Original Japanese poster
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by |
Tomoyuki Tanaka Arthur Rankin Jr. |
| Written by | Kaoru Mabuchi |
| Story by | Arthur Rankin Jr. |
| Starring |
Akira Takarada Rhodes Reason Mie Hama Linda Miller Eisei Amamoto |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
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Toho (Japan) Universal Studios (USA) |
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104 minutes (Japan) 96 minutes (USA) |
| Country | Japan United States |
| Language |
Japanese English |
| Box office | $1,000,000 (US/ Canada) |
King Kong Escapes (released in Japan as Counterattack of King Kong (キングコングの逆襲 Kingu Kongu no Gyakushū?), is a 1967 Japanese-American science fiction kaiju film featuring King Kong, co-produced by Toho and Rankin/Bass. The film is directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Rhodes Reason, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with Haruo Nakajima as King Kong and Yū Sekida as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus. The film was a loose adaptation of the Rankin/Bass Saturday morning cartoon series The King Kong Show and was the second and final Japanese-produced film featuring King Kong. King Kong Escapes was released in Japan on July 22, 1967 and released in the United States on June 19, 1968.
An evil genius named Dr. Who creates Mechani-Kong, a robotic version of King Kong, to dig for a highly radioactive Element X, found only at the North Pole. Mechani-Kong enters an ice cave and begins to dig into a glacier, but the radiation destroys its brain circuits and the robot shuts down. Who then sets his sights on getting the real Kong to finish the job. Who is taken to task by a beautiful female overseer, Madame Piranha. Her country's government is financing the doctor's schemes, and she frequently berates him for his failure to get results.
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