Godzilla vs. Gigan

Godzilla vs. Gigan


地球攻撃命令 ゴジラ対ガイガン
Chikyū Kōgeki Meirei Gojira Tai Gaigan
Earth Destruction Order: Godzilla Against Gigan
Also known as Godzilla on Monster Island
Director Jun Fukuda
Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka
Screenplay Shinichi Sekizawa
Photography Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Art Yoshifumi Honda
Sound Fumio Yanoguchi
Lighting Kojiro Sato
Music Akira Ifukube
Special Effects Teruyoshi Nakano
Editor Yoshio Tamura
Production Companies Toho
Release Date March 12, 1972
Runtime 89 minutes
Preceded by Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
Followed by Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)

地球攻撃命令 ゴジラ対ガイガン
Chikyū Kōgeki Meirei Gojira Tai Gaigan
Earth Destruction Order: Godzilla Against Gigan
Director Jun Fukuda
Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka
Screenplay Shinichi Sekizawa
Photography Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Art Yoshifumi Honda
Sound Fumio Yanoguchi
Lighting Kojiro Sato
Music Akira Ifukube
Special Effects Teruyoshi Nakano
Editor Yoshio Tamura
Also known as Godzilla on Monster Island
Production Companies Toho
Release Date March 12, 1972
Runtime 89 minutes
Preceded by Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
Followed by Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)

Kotaka, a struggling comic book artist, lands a gig at World Children’s Land, designing monsters for a Monster Island exhibit. Kotaka is suspicious of the organization, especially it’s president Sudo, an unusually intelligent young man. He also meets Machiko, whose brother Shima is being held captive in one of the theme park’s attractions for unknown reasons. Michiko has acquired a tape of a high frequency signal. They can’t decipher it, but the signal is powerful enough to alert Godzilla and Anguirus on Monster Island. The monsters head toward Japan to investigate.

Kotaka discovers that a person exactly matching Sudo’s description was killed a year earlier in a climbing accident, and he suspects the new Sudo is an imposter. When Kotaka attempts to rescue Shima, he is captured, and Sudo is revealed to be an alien. The tape is their control signal to summon King Ghidorah and the space monster Gigan and destroy Earth civilization to make room for their own devastated race. The space monsters arrive and attack Tokyo as Godzilla and Anguirus arrive, and a two-on-two battle ensues.

Machiko rescues Kotaka and Shima and they alert the military. The military stages an attack on the aliens’ HQ inside the theme park, which kills Sudo and destroys the monster mind control equipment. King Ghidorah and Gigan are stunned by the loss of the control signal. Godzilla and Anguirus take advantage of the confusion and force the space monsters to retreat.

Top Billed Cast

Hiroshi Ishikawa
Gengo Kotaka
Tomoko Umeda
Machiko Shima
Yuriko Hishimi
Tomoko Tomoe
Minoru Takashima
Shosaku Takasugi
Zan Fujita
Fumio Sudo
Toshiaki Nishizawa
Kubota
Kunio Murai
Takeshi Shima
Gen Shimizu
Defense Commander
Kuniko Ashihara
Mrs. Sudo
Zeko Nakamura
Priest
Shosei Muto
Kotaka's Editor
Naoya Kusakawa
Policeman
Wataru Omae
Alien Henchman
Haruo Nakajima
Godzilla
Koetsu Omiya
Anguirus
Kanta Ina
King Ghidorah
Kenpachiro Satsuma
Gigan

Rest of Cast Listed Alphabetically

Tadashi Okabe
Policeman
Top Billed Cast

Gengo Kotaka
Hiroshi Ishikawa

Machiko Shima
Tomoko Umeda

Tomoko Tomoe
Yuriko Hishimi

Shosaku Takasugi
Minoru Takashima

Fumio Sudo
Zan Fujita

Kubota
Toshiaki Nishizawa

Takeshi Shima
Kunio Murai

Defense Commander

Mrs. Sudo
Kuniko Ashihara

Priest
Zeko Nakamura

Kotaka's Editor
Shosei Muto

Policeman

Alien Henchman

Godzilla

Anguirus
Koetsu Omiya

King Ghidorah
Kanta Ina

Gigan
Kenpachiro Satsuma
Rest of Cast Listed Alphabetically

Policeman
製作
Producer
田中友幸
Tomoyuki Tanaka
脚本
Screenplay
関沢新一
Shinichi Sekizawa
撮影
Photography
長谷川清
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
美術
Art
本多好文
Yoshifumi Honda
録音
Sound
矢野口文雄
Fumio Yanoguchi
照明
Lighting
佐藤幸次郎
Kojiro Sato
音楽
Music
伊福部昭
Akira Ifukube
整音
Dubbing
東宝録音センター
Toho Sound Center
効果
Effects
東宝効果集団
Toho Effects Group
主題歌
Theme Song
東宝レコード
Toho Records
「ゴジラマーチ」
"Godzilla March"

作詞
Lyrics
関沢新一
Shinichi Sekizawa

福田純
Jun Fukuda
作曲
Composition
宮内国郎
Kunio Miyauchi

Performer
石川進
Susumu Ishikawa
「ゆけ! ゆけ! ゴジラ」
"Go! Go! Godzilla"

作詞
Lyrics
関沢新一
Shinichi Sekizawa
作曲
Composition
萩原哲晶
Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer
石川進
Susumu Ishikawa
特殊技術
Special Effects
中野昭慶
Teruyoshi Nakano
撮影
Photography
富岡素敬
Motoyoshi Tomioka
美術
Art
青木利郎
Toshiro Aoki
操演
Physical Effects
中代文雄
Fumio Nakashiro
光学撮影
Optical Photography
徳政義行
Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
合成
Synthesis
土井三郎
Saburo Doi
監督助手
Assistant Director
岡田文亮
Fumiaki Okada
編集
Editor
田村嘉男
Yoshio Tamura
現像
Developing
東京現像所
Tokyo Laboratory
製作担当者
Production Manager
森知貴秀
Takahide Morichi
出演者
Performers


石川博
Hiroshi Ishikawa

梅田智子
Tomoko Umeda

菱見百合子
Yuriko Hishimi

高島稔
Minoru Takashima

藤田漸
Zan Fujita

西沢利明
Toshiaki Nishizawa

村井国夫
Kunio Murai

清水元
Gen Shimizu

葦原邦子
Kuniko Ashihara

中村是好
Zeko Nakamura

武藤章生
Shosei Muto

草川直也
Naoya Kusakawa

大前亘
Wataru Omae

木村博人
Hiromi Kimura

渡辺貞男
Sadao Watanabe

西川明
Akira Nishikawa

斉藤宣丈
Takeshi Saito

中島春雄
Haruo Nakajima

大宮幸悦
Koetsu Omiya

伊奈貫太
Kanta Ina

中山剣吾
Kengo Nakayama
監督
Director
福田純
Jun Fukuda