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King Kong Escapes (1967)
Directed by Ishirō Honda
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Overview
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.
Rated G | Length 104 minutes
Actors
Akira Takarada | Mie Hama | Rhodes Reason | Linda Miller | Hideyo Amamoto | Yoshifumi Tajima | Sachio Sakai | Ryuji Kita | Ikio Sawamura | Nadao Kirino | Shôichi Hirose | Kazuo Suzuki | Tôru Ibuki | Naoya Kusakawa | Susumu Kurobe | Haruo Nakajima | Yû Sekita | Kei Taguchi | Akiko Santo | Osman Yusuf | Tadashi Okabe | Seishirô Kuno | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Andrew Hughes
Viewing History (seen 9 times)
Viewing Notes
Turned on DKUTV to have running while I update my Pocketpedia and they were broadcasting the Japanese language version of this all time favorite so of course I just watched this instead. Who am I to refuse an opportunity to see the way better JP version which isn’t available here.
Guess the first day of the year really is all comfort movies so far. I’m cool with that. Don’t think I’ve mentioned it before but it’s really cool that Toho gave Hideyo Amamoto a meaty role in a major production when he was usually relegated to bit parts and small supporting roles. He’s so great as Dr. Who!
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