Space Amoeba
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Fumio Tanaka Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Written by | Ei Ogawa |
| Starring | Akira Kubo Atsuko Takahashi Yukiko Kobayashi Kenji Sahara Yoshio Tsuchiya Yu Fujiki Noritake Saito Yûko Sugihara Sachio Sakai |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Taiichi Kankura |
| Edited by | Masahisa Himi Eli Haviv (US version) |
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Toho American International Pictures (USA, 1971) |
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83 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
Space Amoeba, released in Japan as Gezora, Ganime, Kamēba: Kessen! Nankai no Daikaijū (ゲゾラ・ガニメ・カメーバ 決戦! 南海の大怪獣?, lit. "Gezora, Ganimes, and Kamoebas: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas"), is a 1970 Japanese Science Fiction/Kaiju film produced and released by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishirō Honda, and featuring special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa, the film starred Kenji Sahara and Yoshio Tsuchiya. The film tells the story of extraterrestrial amoeba-like aliens that highjack a probe and, after crash landing on a small South pacific atoll, create gigantic monsters from native lifeforms (a Kisslip cuttlefish, stone crab and Matamata turtle) with plans of conquering the Earth.
The film was released theatrically in the USA in the Summer of 1971 by American International Pictures as Yog Monster from Space.
The Helios 7 space probe is sent on a mission to study the planet Jupiter. While on its outward journey to the gas giant, the probe is overtaken by the Space Amoeba, an amorphous parasitic extraterrestrial. The probe returns to Earth and crashes into the South Pacific, where the Amoeba leaves the device and inhabits the body of a cuttlefish, causing it to mutate into what is called "Gezora." The tentacled kaiju begins attacking ships and islands in the area.
A photographer named Kudo and his entourage land on Selga Island for a photoshoot, but their camp is attacked by Gezora. Because of its mutation the creature can create extremely cold temperatures with its body. When the survivors discover that Gezora is vulnerable to high temperatures, Kudo and his friends use a leftover Japanese World War II munitions bunker to set fire to the monster. Severely burned, the creature retreats to the water where it dies.
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