King Kong Escapes (1967)
Movie
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.
Directed By : Ishirō Honda
Genres : Action, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
Status : Released
Released : Jul 22, 1967
Tagline : The electronic monster Mechani-Kong boldly challenges the ruler of the South Seas, King Kong!!
Length : 104 minutes
Cast
- Akira Takarada
- Mie Hama
- Rhodes Reason
- Linda Miller
- Hideyo Amamoto
- Yoshibumi Tajima
- Sachio Sakai
- Ryuji Kita
- Ikio Sawamura
- Nadao Kirino
- Shōichi Hirose
- Kazuo Suzuki
- Tōru Ibuki
- Naoya Kusakawa
- Susumu Kurobe
- Haruo Nakajima
- Hiroshi Sekita
- Kei Taguchi
- Akiko Santo
- Osman Yusuf
- Tadashi Okabe
- Seishirō Kuno
- Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
- Andrew Hughes
Crew
- Editor : Ryôhei Fujii
- Production Design : Takeo Kita
- Director : Ishirō Honda
- Original Music Composer : Akira Ifukube
- Director of Photography : Hajime Koizumi
- Visual Effects : Eiji Tsuburaya
- Technical Advisor : Arthur Rankin, Jr.
- Screenplay : Takeshi Kimura
- Executive Producer : Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Sound Recordist : Shoichi Yoshizawa
- Lighting Technician : Toshio Takashima
- Sound Mixer : Hisashi Shimonaga
- First Assistant Director : Ken Sano
- Sound Effects : Sadamasa Nishimoto
- Production Manager : Yasuaki Sakamoto
- Special Effects : Eiji Tsuburaya
- Special Effects : Teruyoshi Nakano
- Special Effects Assistant : Teruyoshi Nakano
- Visual Effects : Teruyoshi Nakano
- Visual Effects Director : Teruyoshi Nakano
- VFX Director of Photography : Motoyoshi Tomioka
- Special Effects : Motoyoshi Tomioka
- Special Effects : Yôichi Manoda
- VFX Director of Photography : Yôichi Manoda
- Visual Effects : Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
- Visual Effects Camera : Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
- Visual Effects Art Director : Yasuyuki Inoue
- Lighting Technician : Kuichiro Kishida
- VFX Lighting Artist : Kuichiro Kishida
- Visual Effects : Hiroshi Mukoyama
- Visual Effects Compositor : Hiroshi Mukoyama
- Special Effects : Fumio Takashiro
- Visual Effects Director : Eiji Tsuburaya
- Visual Effects : Sadao Iizuka
- Visual Effects : Koichi Kawakita
- Visual Effects Camera : Koichi Kawakita
- Still Photographer : Takashi Nakao
- Visual Effects Camera : Takashi Nakao
- Executive Producer : Arthur Rankin, Jr.
- Special Effects Assistant : Jiro Shirasaki
- Visual Effects Art Director : Jiro Shirasaki
- Background Designer : Fuchimu Shimakura
- Matte Painter : Fuchimu Shimakura
- Costume Design : Teizô Toshimitsu
- Modeling : Teizô Toshimitsu
- Sculptor : Teizô Toshimitsu
- Costume Design : Eizo Kaimai
- Modeling : Eizo Kaimai
- Modeling : Kanju Yagi
- Costume Design : Kanju Yagi
- Modeling : Yasuei Yagi
- Costume Design : Yasuei Yagi
- Costume Design : Nobuyuki Yasumaru
- Modeling : Nobuyuki Yasumaru
- Stunts : Haruo Nakajima
- Stunts : Hiroshi Sekita
- Visual Effects : Saburo Doi
- Translator : Heihachirō Ōkawa