Directed by Noriaki Yuasa Written by Niisan Takahashi   Cast Eiji Funakoshi ... Dr. Hidaka Harumi Kiritachi ... Kyoko Yamamoto Junichiro Yamashita ... Aoyagi (as Junichirô Yamashiko) Yoshiro Uchida ... Toshio Sakurai Michiko Sugata ... Nobuyo Sakurai Yoshirô Kitahara ... Mr. Sakurai Jun Hamamura ... Professor Murase Kenji Ôyama ... Minister of Defense Munehiko Takada ... Soviet Representative Yoshio Yoshida ... Eskimo Chief Jun Osanai ... Chidori Maru Captain Daihachi Kita ... Chidori Maru Navigator Kazuo Mori ... Chidori Maru Radioman Kôji Fujiyama ... U.S. Arctic Base Commander Osamu Ôkawa ... U.S. Air Base Radar Technician Ikuji Oka ... U.S. Fighter Pilot Bokuzen Hidari ... Old Farmer Fumiko Murata ... Old Farmer's Wife Shigeru Katô ... Old Farmer's Grandson Jutarô Kitashiro ... Self-Defense Force Commander (as Jutarô Hôjô) Daigo Inoue ... Self-Defense Force Adjutant Takehiko Gotô ... Self-Defense Force Cessna Pilot (as Takehiko Goto) Chizuru Kô ... Stripper A (as Chiduru Ko) Ryôko Oki ... Stripper B (as Ryoko Oki) Ken'ichi Tani ... Officer Akira Shimizu ... Dancing Youth Yasuo Araki ... Self-Defense Force Soldier A Kenji Ôba ... Self-Defense Force Soldier B (as Kenji Ohba) Ichigen Ohashi ... Mr. Ueda Fujii Tatsushi ... Official at Haneda Airport Yûji Moriya ... News Announcer Kenichiro Yamane ... Geothermal Station Engineer Tsutomu Nakata ... Toshio's Uncle Wakayo Matsumura ... Customer Misato Kawashima ... Preschool Teacher Saburo Kurihara ... Ichiro Tetsurô Takeuchi ... Announcer - Japan Broadcasting Station Shin Minatsu ... Announcer - Sapporo Broadcasting Station Rin Sugimori ... Police Station Chief Shin'ichi Matsuyama ... Operator A Toichiro Kagawa ... Operator B Kyôsuke Shiho ... Fish Seller A Shunji Sayama ... Fish Seller B Ken Nakahara ... Fish Seller C Shigeo Hagiwara ... Child at Lighthouse B Tetsu Furuya ... Child at Lighthouse C Osamu Maruyama ... Atomic Energy Research Institute Chief Toshio Maki ... Atomic Energy Research Institute Staff A Kazuo Sumida ... Atomic Energy Research Institute Staff B Ichiro Ise ... Reporter A Shinji Sayama ... Reporter B Hajime Munechika ... Reporter C Tsukako Fujino ... Stewardess Abdo Apanai ... US Emissary (as M. Apanai) Richardson ... U.S. Arctic Base Personnel Streihan ... U.S. Arctic Base Personnel Ranson ... U.S. Arctic Base Personnel Hank Brown ... U.S. Arctic Base Personnel (as Brown) Hartman ... U.S. Arctic Base Personnel Gunter Braun ... News Reporter in New York Jacques Enghien ... International Official Uncredited Cast Teruo Aragaki ... Gamera Kazuo Yagi ... Gamera Produced by Sandy Frank   Hidemasa Nagata   Masaichi Nagata   Yonejirô Saitô   Original Music by Tadashi Yamauchi

Additional Info Premiere: November 26, 1965 Theatrical Release: December 15, 1966 DVD Release: September 28, 2004 Blu-ray Release: April 29, 2014 Country: Distributor: Arrow Films Websites: Alternate Titles Daikaijû Gamera Production Companies Daiei Studios Distributors King Features Entertainment   (1987) (United States) (dubbed) (syndication) (TV) BuckRay TV   (2022) (United States) (video) Mill Creek Entertainment   (2014) (United States) (DVD) Mill Creek Entertainment   (2014) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD) Neptune Media   (1999) (United States) (VHS) Shout! Factory   (2010) (United States) (DVD) Well Go USA Entertainment   (2015) (United States) (digital) (video) Rating Stats Overall Rating 5.2 / 10 Our Rating 5.7 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 5.7 / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #6,273 / 20,725 Ratings Breakdown Almost Perfect 2 total ratings Site Ranking #6,268 The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003) #6,269 Nightmares (1983) #6,271 The Kill Room (2023) #6,272 Breaker! Breaker! (1977) #6,273 Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965) #6,274 Redcon-1 (2018) #6,275 Coonskin (1974) #6,276 Scanners II: The New Order (1991) #6,277 A Cat In The Brain (1990)