King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) - Credits and Details

King Kong vs. Godzilla Credits and Details

Directed by
	Ishirô Honda	...	as Inoshiro Honda
	Tom Montgomery	...	as Thomas Montgomery
Written by
	Shin'ichi Sekizawa	...	written by
	Paul Mason	...	written by
	Bruce Howard	...	written by
	John Beck	...	story "King Kong vs. Prometheus"
	Willis H. O'Brien	...	story "King Kong vs. Frankenstein"
	Edgar Wallace	...	Kingu Kongu Created By
Cast
	Michael Keith	...	Eric Carter
	Harry Holcombe	...	Dr. Arnold Johnson
	James Yagi	...	Yutaka Omura
	Tadao Takashima	...	Osamu Sakurai
	Kenji Sahara	...	Kazuo Fujita (as Keji Sahaka)
	Ichirô Arishima	...	Mr. Tako
	Yû Fujiki	...	Kinsaburo Furue
	Jun Tazaki	...	General Masami Shinzo
	Akihiko Hirata	...	Dr. Shigezawa
	Mie Hama	...	Fumiko Sakurai
	Yoshifumi Tajima	...	Captain of Fujita's Ship - Japanese version only
	Akiko Wakabayashi	...	Tamiye
	Akemi Negishi	...	Chikiro's Mother (Dancing Girl)
	Yoshio Kosugi	...	Farou Island Chief
	Ikio Sawamura	...	Witch Doctor
	Someshô Matsumoto	...	Dr. Onuki
	Kô Mishima	...	Official
	Sachio Sakai	...	Obayashi (Mr. Tako's assistant)
	Tatsuo Matsumura	...	Dr. Makino
	Senkichi Ômura	...	TTV Translator Konno
	Ren Yamamoto	...	Commander of Operation Burial
	Haruya Katô	...	Obayashi's assistant
	Yasuhisa Tsutsumi	...	General's Aide #2
	Yutaka Nakayama
	Shin Ôtomo	...	Captain of Vessel
	Toshihiko Furuta
	Nadao Kirino	...	General's Aide #1
	Naoya Kusakawa	...	Newspaper Reporter
	Mitsuo Tsuda	...	Ground Self Defense Force Executive
	Haruko Tôgô
	Takuzô Kumagai	...	Police Executive (as Jirô Kumagai)
	Shirô Tsuchiya	...	Fisherman / Evacuee
	Yasuzô Ogawa
	Kenzô Tabu	...	Dreary Newscaster
	Kazuo Suzuki
	Haruya Sakamoto	...	Eastern Army Facility Manager
	Hiromi Mineoka
	Hideo Shibuya	...	Member of Press Corp (as Shinpei Mitsui)
	Terumi Oka
	Ichirô Chiba
	Mieko Kurenai
	Harold Conway	...	Scientist in Sub
	Douglas Fein	...	Commander Roberts
	Osman Yusuf	...	Submariner
	Shôichi Hirose	...	King Kong
	Haruo Nakajima	...	Godzilla / Faro Islander of the monitoring base
	Katsumi Tezuka	...	Godzilla
	Bin Furuya	...	JSDF correspondent
	Cliff Harrington	...	Al the helicopter co-pilot (as Clifford Harrington)
	Shigeo Katô	...	Pacific Pharmaceutical employee, newspaper reporter
	Thomas Korzeniowski	...	General (voice) (as Tom Conrad)
	Akio Kusama	...	Ground self-defense force executive
	Junnosuke Suda	...	Pacific Pharmaceutical Employee
	Kamayuki Tsubono	...	Sailor Daiyasumaru
Uncredited Cast
	Gary Collins	...	Submariner
	Robert Dunham	...	US Navy Pilot
	Victor Millan	...	Rodrigo Infante
	Les Tremayne	...	Commander Roberts / General Shinzo / Narrator (voice)
Produced by
	John Beck	...	producer
	Tomoyuki Tanaka	...	producer
Original Music by
	Akira Ifukube
Special Effects by
	Kaimai Eizo	...	special effects
	Keizô Murase	...	special effects
	Teruyoshi Nakano	...	assistant director of special effects
	Koichi Takano	...	puppet effects
	Teizô Toshimitsu	...	special effects suit design
	Eiji Tsuburaya	...	director of special effects
	Akira Watanabe	...	art director of special effects/gojira and kingukongu suit designs
	Fuminori Ôhashi	...	special effects technical advisor
Visual Effects by
	Sadamasa Arikawa	...	director of special effects photography
	Sadao Iizuka	...	visual effects
	Kôichi Kawakita	...	assistant special effects cameraman
	Kyuichirô Kishida	...	special effects lighting
	Yukio Manoda	...	optical effects
	Hiroshi Mukoyama	...	matte process
	Sokei Tomioka	...	special effects camera operator
	Taka Yuki	...	optical effects
Stunts
	Haruo Nakajima	...	stunt choreographer

Additional Info
Premiere:	August 11, 1962
Theatrical Release:	June 26, 1963
DVD Release:	May 15, 2001
Blu-ray Release:	April 01, 2014
Countries:
Distributor:	The Criterion Collection
Websites:

Ratings
5.7 / 10	5.7 / 10	40 / 100

Alternate Titles
Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira

Production Companies
Toho
John Beck
RKO General Pictures
Universal International Studios

Distributors
Universal Pictures (1963) (United States) (Universal-International) (English dubbed) (theatrical)
Filmauro Home Video (1965) (World-wide) (TV)
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) (2005) (United States) (DVD)
Universal Pictures (1963) (World-wide) (theatrical)
GoodTimes Home Video (1987) (United States) (VHS)
GoodTimes Home Video (1989) (United States) (VHS)
GoodTimes Home Video (1996) (United States) (VHS)
GoodTimes Home Video (2001) (United States) (DVD)
The Criterion Collection (2019) (United States) (Blu-ray)

Filming Locations
Tokyo, Japan

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