King Kong Escapes
1967 film directed by Ishirō Honda / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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King Kong Escapes (Japanese: キングコングの逆襲, Hepburn: Kingu Kongu no Gyakushū, lit. 'King Kong's Counterattack') is a 1967 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film was a Japanese–American co-production between Toho and Rankin/Bass,[1] and stars Rhodes Reason, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with Haruo Nakajima as King Kong and Hiroshi Sekita as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus. The film is loosely based on Rankin/Bass' series The King Kong Show, and was the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong, until its 2021 collaboration with Warner Bros on Godzilla vs. Kong. King Kong Escapes was released in Japan on July 22, 1967, and released in the United States on June 19, 1968. It is the fourth entry in the King Kong franchise.
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Kanji | キングコングの逆襲 | ||||
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Directed by | Ishirō Honda | ||||
Written by | Takeshi Kimura | ||||
Story by | Arthur Rankin Jr. | ||||
Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka Arthur Rankin Jr. | ||||
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Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi | ||||
Edited by | Ryohei Fujii | ||||
Music by | Akira Ifukube | ||||
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Distributed by | Toho (Japan) Universal Pictures (United States) | ||||
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Running time | 104 minutes (Japan) 96 minutes (United States) | ||||
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Languages | English Japanese | ||||
Box office | $1 million (US/Canada rentals) 1 million tickets (France) |