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Rodan : and, War of the gargantuas / Toho Co., Ltd.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Honda, Ishirō, 1911-1993, film director.
Tanaka, Tomoyuki, 1910-1997, film producer.
Kuronuma, Ken, 1902-1985, screenwriter.
Murata, Takeo, 1910-1994, screenwriter.
Kimura, Takeshi, 1912-1988, screenwriter.
Saperstein, Henry G., 1918-1998, film producer.
Sahara, Kenji, 1932- actor.
Shirakawa, Yumi, 1936-2016, actor.
Hirata, Akihiko, 1927-1984, actor.
Tamblyn, Russ, actor.
Mizuno, Kumi, 1937- actor.
Ifukube, Akira, 1914-2006, composer (expression).
King Bros. Productions, film production company.
Distributors Corporation of America, film production company.
United Productions of America, film production company.
Classic Media, Inc., associated name.
Vivendi Entertainment (Firm), publisher.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, film production company, publisher.
Series:
Toho master collection
Language:
English
Japanese
Subjects (All):
Monsters--Japan--Drama.
Monsters.
Pterodactyls--Japan--Drama.
Pterodactyls.
Predatory insects--Japan--Drama.
Predatory insects.
Giants--Japan--Drama.
Giants.
Japan.
Genre:
Motion pictures.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Monster films.
Science fiction films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (337 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Other Title:
War of the gargantuas
Sora no daikaijū Radon
Furankenshutain no kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira
Place of Publication:
[Japan] : Toho Co., Ltd. ; Universal City, Calif. : Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment, [2008?]
Language Note:
Includes original uncut Japanese versions with English subtitles and English-dubbed US versions.
System Details:
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio) presentation (Rodan); widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation (War of the gargantuas); Dolby Digital monaural..
digital
optical
Dolby
NTSC
video file
region 1
Summary:
Rodan: "A small village is besieged by deadly man-eating insects. When Shigeru travels deep into a mineshaft to exterminate the beasts, he makes an even more horrifying discovery, Rodan, the flying monster!. Two giant pterodactyls terrorize Japan, soaring through the sky and blowing away cities with wing-whipped gusts. How will the world survive this seemingly unstoppable threat?"--Container.
"War of the gargantuas: "A deadly giant terrorizes Japan, sinking ships and attacking fisherman. Using a space-age ray cannon, the military nearly kills the monster before its enormous brother comes to the rescue. The two gargantuas don't see eye-to-eye and their monster-sized sibling rivalry leads to a death match in the streets of Tokyo with civilization hanging in the balance."--Container.
Contents:
Disc 1. Rodan [Japanese version] = Sora no daikaijū Radon / Toho Co., Ltd. ; writer, Ken Kuronuma ; screenplay by Takeo Murata, Takeshi Kimura ; directed by Ishiro Honda ; [produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka] (83 min) ; Rodan [English version] / The King Brothers present a Toho production ; screenplay by Takeshi Kimura and Takeo Murata from an original story by Takashi Kuronuma ; English narration, David Duncan ; directed by Inoshiro Honda ; released by Distributors Corporation of America (73 min.)
Disc 2. The war of the Gargantuas [Japanese version] = Furankenshutain no kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira / Toho Co., Ltd. ; screenplay by Kaoru Mabuchi [i.e. Takeshi Kimura], Ishiro Honda ; [produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka] ; directed by Ishiro Honda (88 min.) ; The war of the Gargantuas [English version] / Henry G. Saperstein presents a United Productions of America Release ; another DEI company ; a Henry G. Saperstein Enterprises presentation (93 min.).
Participant:
Rodan: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akio Kobori, Akihiko Hirata, Yasuko Nakata, Tatsunosuke Yamada, Yoshifumi Tajima, Kitoharu Onaka.
The war of the gargantuas: Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, Russ Tamblyn, Jun Tazaki, Yoshifumi Tajima, Nobuo Nakamura, Hisaya Itō, Nadao Kirino, Ren Yamamoto, Kipp Hamilton, Kōzō Nomura, Shōichi Hirose, Tadashi Okabe, Kōji Uno, Ikio Sawamura.
Credits:
Rodan: director of photography, Isamu Ashida; editing, Robert S. Eisen, Hirokazu Iwashita; director of special effects, Eiji Tsuburaya; music, Akira Ifukube.
The war of the gargantuas: director of photography, Hajime Koizumi; editor, Ryohei Fujii; director of special effects, Eiji Tsuburaya; music, Akira Ifukube.
Notes:
Originally produced as motion pictures in 1956 (Rodan) and 1966 (The war of the Gargantuas).
Includes original documentary Bringing Godzilla down to size.
The war of the gargantuas based on a story by Reuben Bercovitch.
"ClassicMedia."
"2-disc collector's set."--Container.
Contains:
Bringing Godzilla down to size.
OCLC:
273952194
Publisher Number:
796019815154
LVD81515 Toho

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