Frankenstein Conquers the World

The previous Kaijuega of Toho's conception were growing despondent of the seriousness of a 1954 "Gojira" in growing favor of the sillier conventions of contemporary television series like Ultraman. So Toho company had decided to utilize a classic creation of Western literature Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. By this point, Frankenstein was largely realized within filmography from Universal Pictures' adaptation. Toho's attempt to bring the Frankenstein creation to life carries a humorous tone typical of the originators of kaiju media. In their portrayal, Frankenstein's monster not only exists in Japan but is also scaled to the proportions of a Godzilla-sized creature. It faces off against a worldly competitor, the monster Baragon. While Baragon would later appear in other Kaijuega films, aulthough, the sizeable Frankenstein Monster is absent.

Frankenstein vs. Baragon
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣バラゴン
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Furankenshutain tai Chitei Kaijū Baragon
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Screenplay by	Takeshi Kimura
Story by	Reuben Bercovitch Jerry Sohl
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring	Nick Adams Kumi Mizuno Tadao Takashima
Cinematography	Hajime Koizumi Sadamasa Arikawa
Edited by	Ryohei Fujii
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production companies	Toho Co., Ltd Henry G. Saperstein Enterprises
Distributed by	Toho (Japan) American International Pictures (United States)
Release dates	August 8, 1965 (1965-08-08) (Japan) July 8, 1966 (1966-07-08) (United States)
Running time	89 minutes
Countries	Japan United States
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥93,000,000 (equivalent to ¥391,184,805 in 2019) (Japan)