Underplayed Gems

King Kong Escapes (1967)

King Kong Escapes poster
Original title
キングコングの逆襲
Directed by
Ishirō Honda
Genre
fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, kaiju, speculative fiction film
Country
United States, Japan
Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
G
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 113 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A giant robotic Kong called Mechani-Kong is built by a mad scientist to dig for a rare mineral. The real King Kong is captured and brought to Tokyo to fight the mechanical monster.

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What happens

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 is a Japanese–American co-production between Toho and Rankin/Bass, 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 Toei Animation's and Rankin/Bass' anime series The King Kong Show, and is the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong, until its collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures on Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). King Kong Escapes, the fourth entry of the King Kong franchise, was released in Japan by Toho on July 22, 1967, and released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 19, 1968, as Universal's second King Kong film. 37 years later, it was followed by the second remake of the 1933 film as the third and final King Kong film by Universal on December 14, 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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