Frankenstein Conquers the World
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Whereas the previous kaijuega of Toho's conception were growing despondent of the seriousness of say, a 1954 "Gojira" in growing favor of the "sillier" conventions of contemporary television series like Ultraman, Toho had decided upon itself to utilize a classic creation of Western literature (now by this point largely realized within filmography from Universal Pictures' adaptation), Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Toho's attempt to realize the titular Frankenstein creation is humorously in tone for the originators of kaiju media; Frankenstein's monster is not only present in Japan, but is also sized to the proportions of a Godzilla-sized creature, and faces against a worldly competitor, the monster Baragon, original to this film. Baragon would appear in later Kaiju eiga, notably the 2001 film Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack, also made by Toho studios, unfortunately not including the sizeable Frankenstein Monster.
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Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
Screenplay by | Takeshi Kimura |
Story by | Reuben Bercovitch[1] Jerry Sohl[1] |
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Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi Sadamasa Arikawa |
Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
Music by | Akira Ifukube |
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Distributed by | Toho (Japan) American International Pictures (United States) |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Countries | Japan United States |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥93,000,000 (equivalent to ¥391,184,805 in 2019) (Japan)[2] |
References change
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Craig 2019, p. 154.
- ↑ Ryfle & Godziszewski 2017, p. 226.