Atragon
1963 Japanese film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Atragon (海底軍艦, Kaitei Gunkan, lit. 'The Undersea Warship') is a 1963 Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho, it is based on The Undersea Warship: A Fantastic Tale of Island Adventure by Shunrō Oshikawa and The Undersea Kingdom by Shigeru Komatsuzaki. The film stars Jun Tazaki, Tadao Takashima, Yōko Fujiyama, Yū Fujiki, and Ken Uehara.
Atragon | |
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Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
Screenplay by | Shinichi Sekizawa[1] |
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Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
Starring | Jun Tazaki Tadao Takashima Yōko Fujiyama Yū Fujiki |
Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
Music by | Akira Ifukube |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date | December 22, 1963 (Japan) |
Running time | 94 minutes[2] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥175 million[3] |
The film was released in Japan on December 22, 1963, and in the United States in 1965 via American International Pictures. A two-episode anime OVA titled Super Atragon, based on the same novels, was produced by Phoenix Entertainment in 1995.