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Furankanshutain tai Chitei Kaiju Baragon
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Frankenstein vs. Baragon / Frankenstein - Der Schrecken mit dem Affengesicht / Frankenstein Meets the Giant Devil Fish / Frankenstein and the Giant Lizard
Japan 1965
produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka for Toho
directed by Ishiro Honda
starring Tadao Takashima, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Koji Furuhata, Jun Tazaki, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Nakamura, Kenji Sahara, Yoshifumi Tajima, Kozo Nomura, Haruya Kato, Keiko Sawai, Peter Mann, Yutaka Sada, Hisaya Ito, Kenzo Tabu, Kenichiro Kawaji, Hideaki Nitani, Haruo Nakajima
written by Ishiro Honda, Kaoru Mabuchi, loosely based on characters created by Mary W. Shelley, special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, music by Akira Ifukube
Frankenstein, Toho's Frankenstein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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1945: Just before the Germans surrender to the Allied Forces, the heart
of the Frankenstein monster is shipped off to Japan - where it arrives in
Hiroshima just in time to be hit by the atom bomb ... but of course,
Frankenstein's heart is immortal, and thanks to the radiation, 15 years
later it has grown into a man - but the radiation makes this man grow and
grow into a giant monster - a benign one though. Then people are killed
and eaten by a monster, and everybody but three scientists (Nick Adams,
Tadao Takashima, Kumi Mizuno) believe it was the Frankenstein monster
(Koji Fuiruhata), even though all the evidence points into a different
direction. But hey, people are killed by a giant monster, and it seems
Frankenstein is the only one around ... until reptilic Baragon shows up, a
giant monster that's mighty good at digging (which is why it has been able
to hide so well). Eventually of course these two creatures meet and fight
to the death, Baragon's death. Then for no apparent reason, Frankenstein
is killed by a giant octopus - but has he really died? No, he returned in
next years War of the
Gargantuas ... One of Inoshiro Honda's lesser monster
films, this one puts too much emphasis on its human protagonists rather
than its monster, too much emphasis on the monster's origins rather than
its path of destruction, and honestly, Frankenstein doesn't look all that
menacing (well ok, he's supposed to be a benign monster). Admittedly there
are some fine scenes of destruction, and the final duel Frankenstein vs
the leaping (!) reptile is fun - but in all, the film is actually rather
on the dull side. Pity!
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