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  1. Godzilla vs. Gigan (Japanese: 地球攻撃命令 ゴジラ対ガイガン, Hepburn: Chikyū Kōgeki Meirei Gojira Tai Gaigan, lit. Earth Destruction Directive: Godzilla vs. Gigan ) , is a 1972 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda , written by Shinichi Sekizawa , and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka , with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano .

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    Freelance manga artist Gengo Odaka applies for and gets a job as a designer for Tokyo's World Children's Land, a theme park whose key attraction is a life size replica of Godzilla dubbed Godzilla Tower. Right away, Gengo notices several peculiar things about his employers. His boss, Kubota, obsesses over world peace despite hiring Gengo to design n...

    Actor's name on the left, character played on the right. 1. Hiroshi Ishikawa as Gengo Odaka, manga artist 2. Tomoko Umeda as Machiko Shima 3. Yuriko Hishimi as Tomoko Tomoe 4. Minoru Takashima as Shosaku Takasugi 5. Zan Fujita as Fumio Sudo, chairman of World Children's Land 6. Toshiaki Nishizawa as Kubota, director-general of World Children's Land...

    Earth Attack Command: Godzilla vs. Gigan(literal Japanese title)
    Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah: Earth Attack Command (ゴジラ対キングギドラ 地球攻撃命令,   Gojira tai Kingu Gidora: Chikyū Kōgeki Meirei, early Japanese title)
    Godzilla on Monster Island (United States)
    War of the Monsters(United Kingdom)

    View all posters for the film here. 1. Japan - March 12, 1972 [view poster] 2. United States - August 19, 1977 [view poster] 3. Canada - October 14, 1978 4. France - August 9, 1973 [view poster] 5. West Germany - 1973 [view poster] 6. Italy - 1973 [view poster] 7. Belgium - 1973 [view poster] 8. Curaçao - October 4, 1973 9. Brazil - November 1973 1...

    U.S. release

    In March 1975, the Hong Kong-dubbed international version of Godzilla vs. Gigan played at the Toho Theatre in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1977, Cinema Shares released an edit of the international English version of Godzilla vs. Gigan throughout the U.S. as Godzilla on Monster Island, despite only about one minute of the film actually taking place on Monster Island. The company made a handful of changes to the international version, some of them in the interest of obtaining a G rating from the MPAA:...

    United Kingdom release

    Miracle Films released Godzilla vs. Gigan theatrically in May 1977 as War of the Monsters. It received an "A" certification by the BBFC and was uncut. It was double billed with the spaghetti Western Twilight Avengers (1970). This version of the film was released on VHS by Derann Film Services in 1980, then again by Stablecane in June 1986. The film was shown under its original title on Channel 4 in 1990 and later released on VHS by Polygram in 1992 (in a double feature with Godzilla vs. Megal...

    When Godzilla vs. Gigan was released to Japanese theaters on March 12, 1972, it recorded an attendance of 1.78 million. This was higher than the previous Toho Champion Festival Godzilla films, All Monsters Attack and Godzilla vs. Hedorah, but well below earlier entries in the series.[citation needed]

    Mei AhVCD (1998) 1. Region:PAL 2. Discs:2 3. Audio:English (Mono) 4. Subtitles:Chinese (traditional) 5. Special features:None 6. Notes: Presents an unaltered 35mm transfer of the film's international version. Mei AhLaserDisc (1998) 1. Region:NTSC 2. Discs:1 (CLV, 2 sides) 3. Audio:English (Mono) 4. Subtitles:Chinese (traditional) 5. Special feature...

    Godzilla vs. Gigan played in Japanese theaters as the main feature of the 1972 Spring Toho Champion Festival, accompanied by Mirror Man (a blow-up of the first episode of the TV series of the same...
    This film's score is composed almost entirely of stock music from previous scores composed by Akira Ifukube. A new song, "Godzilla March," composed by Kunio Miyauchiand sung by Susumu Ishikawa, is...
    This was Haruo Nakajima's final time playing Godzilla, a role he had played since 1954.

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  2. Godzilla vs. Gigan (地球攻撃命令 ゴジラ対ガイガン, Chikyū Kōgeki Meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan?, lit. Earth Attack Command: Godzilla Against Gigan) is a 1972 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Toho Company Ltd., and the twelfth installment in the Godzilla series as well as the Showa series. The film was released to Japanese theaters on March 12, 1972. Giant cockroaches from a dying ...

  3. Apr 26, 2024 · Like Kumonga, Godzilla has fought Hedorah twice. And the rematch happened in the infamous Godzilla Final Wars (2004), where the King of the Monsters fought fourteen monsters in rapid succession. Hedorah only survived 27 seconds of screentime, during which it got slammed into a building, punctured in the neck by Ebirah's claws, and burned down ...

  4. Godzilla vs. Gigan: Directed by Jun Fukuda, Yoshimitsu Banno, Ishirô Honda, Shûe Matsubayashi. With Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima, Tomoko Umeda.

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    • Action, Adventure, Family
    • Jun Fukuda, Yoshimitsu Banno, Ishirô Honda
    • 1977-08
  5. Godzilla vs. Gigan, released in Japan as Chikyū Kogeki Meirei: Godzilla tai Gigan (地球攻撃命令 ゴジラ対ガイガン, lit. "Earth Destruction Directive: Godzilla vs. Gigan"), is a 1972 Japanese Science Fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano, the film starred Hiroshi ...

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  7. 1 day ago · Gigan(ガイガンGaigan) is an alien cyborg kaiju who first appeared in the 1972 Toho Godzilla film Godzilla vs. Gigan. The ultimate weapon of the M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens, Gigan was deployed to Earth alongside King Ghidorah to aid in the invaders' conquest of the planet.