Destroy All Monsters

  • Akira Kubo: Captain Katsuo Yamabe
  • June Tazaki: Dr. Yoshio
  • Yukiko Kobayashi: Kyoko Yamabe
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya: Dr. Otani
  • Kyoko Ai: Kilaak Queen
  • Andrew Hughes: Dr. Stevenson
  • Chōtarō TOGIN: Ogata
  • Yoshifumi Tajima: General
  • Kenji Sahara: Commander Nishikawa
  • Hisaya Ito: Major Tada
  • Yoshio Katsuda: Young Scientist
  • Heihachiro Ōkawa: Engineering
  • Koji Uno: Reporter
  • Ikio Sawamura: Senior Bauer
  • Yutaka Sada: Police officer

Frankenstein and the Monster from Space (Jap.怪 獣 総 进 撃, Kaiju Sōshingeki, dt "Monster general attack " ) is a Japanese fantasy film from 1968 to the Japanese movie monster ( kaiju ) Godzilla.

Action

The film is set in the past at that time in the future year 1999, the people have set up on the moon, a space base. ; Godzilla and his monster friends are housed on an island, on which they are monitored by scientists from the United Nations Scientific Council ( UNSC).

But one day the scientists working on the island become unconscious by a mysterious outflowing gas. Despite the safety technology installed on the island of the monsters break from Godzilla, coat the UN building in New York, Baragon destroyed the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, pterosaur Rodan the Kremlin in Moscow, while sea snake Manda London haunts and giant moth Mothra caused a train crash in China. Lt.. Katsuo travels with his colleagues from the lunar station to investigate the incidents. There he finds the scientist Dr. Otani and his assistant Kyoko. Dr. Otani revealed that the monsters are controlled by him. As the Queen of Kilaaker, an alien, consisting exclusively of women civilization appears and reveals that her people will now rule the earth. However, their use of gas against Katsuo and his people fail at their gas masks.

When Dr. Otani little later plunges to his death during an interrogation from the window, it turns out that he was remotely controlled from the Kilaakern. This brings Katsuo up with the idea to look for the command center of the Kilaakern to keep from there the monsters from further destruction. Katsuo and his people penetrate the Command Center located on the moon and make it despite the opposition of Kilaaker to destroy the monsters controlling apparatus. The monsters that have gathered in the meantime in Tokyo, are now independent and continue on their way to Mount Fuji. They must defend themselves against the three-headed monster King Ghidorah flight, or flame throwing UFO to defend, but this defeat and the remaining Kilaaker.

Background

In Frankenstein and the Monster from space it was the twentieth Kaiju film from Toho and the 9th entry to movie monster Godzilla. Despite the German title of the film has nothing to do with the imagined by Mary Shelley figure of the scientist who strives to create an artificial human being. The German rental chose this film title only because of the advertising effectiveness; explanation is mentioned in the German version of the film Frankenstein as "a man who is above everything."

After the shot by director June Fukuda previous films Frankenstein and the Monster from the Sea, and Frankenstein's monster hunt Godzilla's son had been badly received by the public, took over at Frankenstein and the Monster from Space again Ishiro Honda, who in 1954 turned the original Godzilla movie (see Godzilla ), the director. The film music was composed by Akira Ifukube, who had already written until then the soundtracks for most Godzilla movies; He looked at Frankenstein and the Monster from space in the tradition of Richard Wagner's leitmotiv established by assigning to each monster its own musical theme. Eiji Tsuburaya who is experienced with Godzilla expert for special effects, was only able to monitor, among other things, for health reasons, the trick technical work on Frankenstein and the Monster from Space; the exporting knitting technicians of the film was Teisho Arikawa (nickname of Sadamasa Arikawa in the same Japanese spelling), who had been effect - cameraman long time Tsuburayas.

Reviews

" Fanciful, tricky science fiction film with a great color scheme, but weaknesses in the drama. "

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