Koji Furuhata
| Frankenstein Conquers the World | |
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Original Japanese poster
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by |
Tomoyuki Tanaka Henry G. Saperstein |
| Written by |
Reuben Bercovitch Takeshi Kimura |
| Starring |
Nick Adams Tadao Takashima Kumi Mizuno |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography |
Hajime Koizumi Sadamasa Arikawa |
| Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
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| Distributed by |
Toho (Japan) American International Pictures (USA) |
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Release date
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August 8, 1965 (Japan) July 8, 1966 (USA) |
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Running time
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89 minutes (Theatrical) 93 minutes (International) 87 minutes (USA) |
| Country | United States Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Frankenstein Conquers the World (released in Japan as Frankenstein vs. Subterranean Monster Baragon (フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣バラゴン Furankenshutain Tai Chitei Kaijū Baragon?) is a Japanese-American 1965 science fiction kaiju film co-produced by Toho and UPA. The film is directed by Ishirō Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, with Koji Furuhata as Frankenstein and Haruo Nakajima as Baragon.
This was the first of two Toho/UPA co-produced films featuring giant-sized Frankenstein monsters. A sequel called The War of the Gargantuas was produced the following year. The film was released theatrically in the United States in the summer of 1966 by American International Pictures.
The prologue is set in Nazi Germany during the final days of World War II. A Kriegsmarine Officer, flanked by three Commandos, barges into the laboratory of a Dr. Riesendorf with orders to seize the immortal heart of the Frankenstein Monster, on which Riesendorf is busy experimenting. The heart is summarily transported by U-Boat to be passed off to their Japanese allies via the Atlantic. In the Indian Ocean, off the Maldives, the U-Boat meets up with a Japanese Imperial Navy submarine to make the exchange. They are sighted by an Allied Forces scout plane and bombed, but not before the Kriegsmarine pass the heart (contained in a locked chest) to the Japanese, who take it back to Hiroshima for further experimentation. But just as the experiments are about to begin, Hiroshima is bombed with a nuclear weapon by the Allied Forces, and the heart and the experiments vanish in the atomic fireball.
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