Directed by Ishiro Honda • 1965 • Japan
Starring Tadao Takashima, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno
The legend of Mary Shelley’s mythic monster gets an offbeat update in this wild and weird, East-meets-West kaiju oddity. Fifteen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, an American scientist (Nick Adams) discovers a strange, feral boy running wild in the city. Immune to radiation and rapidly growing to gargantuan size, the boy is revealed to be nothing less than the mutant spawn of the Frankenstein monster—and he may be the only one who can stop the rampaging prehistoric beast Baragon. The film, released in the U.S. as FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD, is here presented in its international-release version, featuring a final battle between Frankenstein and a giant octopus.
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
Directed by Ishiro Honda • 1965 • Japan
Aliens from Planet X make an irresistible offer to the people of Earth: let them borrow Godzilla and Rodan to help defeat King Ghidorah, and in return they will provide a cure for all known human disease. But the aliens’ duplicity is soon revealed, as they...
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The War of the Gargantuas
Directed by Ishiro Honda • 1966 • Japan
After escaping a laboratory, two giant ape-like humanoids battle it out over Tokyo.
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Destroy All Monsters
Directed by Ishiro Honda • 1968 • Japan
The original Godzilla team of director Ishiro Honda, special-effects supervisor Eiji Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube reunited for this kaiju extravaganza, which features no fewer than eleven monsters. Set in the remote future of 1999, when the people...
