Kaijû sôshingeki (1968)

Director:

Ishirô Honda

Writers:

Ishirô Honda (writer)
Takeshi Kimura (writer)

Release Date:

23 May 1969 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War

Tagline:

Monsters of mass destruction.

Plot:

Aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race.

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Alien | Island | Godzilla | Rodan

Cast

Akira Kubo	...	SY-3 Captain Katsuo Yamabe
Jun Tazaki	...	Dr. Yoshido
Yukiko Kobayashi	...	Kyoko Yamabe
Yoshio Tsuchiya	...	Dr. Otani
Kyôko Ai	...	Kilaak Queen
Andrew Hughes	...	Dr. Stevenson
Chôtarô Tôgin	...	Ogata
Yoshifumi Tajima	...	Major Tada
Kenji Sahara	...	Commander Nishikawa
Hisaya Ito	...	Enraged Soldier
Yoshio Katsuda	...	Young Scientist
Heihachirô Ôkawa	...	Engineer (as Henry Okawa)
Kôji Uno	...	Skeptical Reporter
Ikio Sawamura	...	Old Farmer
Yutaka Sada	...	Police Officer

Also Known As:

All Monsters Attack
Attack of the Marching Monsters
Destroy All Monsters (USA)
Gojira dengeki daisakusen (Japan) (reissue title)
Monster Attack March
Monster Invasion (literal English title)
Operation Monsterland (UK)
The March of the Monsters
Eisvoleis apo to diastima (Greece) [el]
Frankenstein und die Monster aus dem All (West Germany) [de]
Frankenstein und die Monster aus dem Weltall (West Germany) [de]
Gli eredi di King Kong (Italy) [it]
Godzilla - Die Monster aus dem All (West Germany) (TV title) [de]
Godzilla und die Monster aus dem All (West Germany) [de]
Hirviöt uhkaavat maailmaa (Finland) [fi]
Invasión extraterrestre (Spain) [es]
Les envahisseurs attaquent (France) [fr]
Les envahisseurs de l'espace (Belgium: French title) [fr]
Super Kong enantion ton teraton (Greece) (reissue title) [el]

Runtime:

Germany:89 min | USA:88 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.55 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | USA:G | West Germany:12 (nf)

Company:

Toho Company

Trivia:

Until Gojira: Fainaru uôzu (2004), this movie featured more monsters than any other in the Godzilla series, with eleven total: Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, Minya, Spiega (aka Kumonga), Baragon, Gorosaurus, Manda, and Varan!

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Godzilla attacks Tokyo and is being shelled, a building is hit and its side blown off. Windows warp, but remain in place, revealing they were plastic.

Quotes:

Major Tada: I didn't think Tokyo would escape this terror, but Rodan, Godzilla and Manda are all here at the same time.
Enraged Soldier: That's correct. New York, London, Moscow - they were all very unlucky.
Announcer: Emergency! Emergency! Mothra is now in District Number 5.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Monsters vs Aliens (2009)

The best Godzilla movie.

This is certanly one of the best Godzilla movies. After years of disappearing of the video shelves and being one of the most obscure Godzilla films, it made appearances on the Sci-Fi channel and was released on video in a nicely dubbed version which was also apparently from some gorgeous Tohoscope letterboxed master. It features most of the monsters (Godzilla, Rodan. Mothra, Ghidrah, Minya, Anguirus, Manda, Baragon, Spigas, and Varan). However, there still are monsters they should of added (the H-men, the Matango, the Gragantuas, King Kong). OK, so the monsters are sent to monster island to live. However, evil alien women get mind control over the monsters (as well as some humans) and send the monsters out on a destruction spree and have the humans do their evil bidding. Eventually, the aliens' evil plan is stopped by clever Japanese scientists. The aliens send Ghidrah to kill Godzilla and friends and is defeated by the the monsters. If you have never seen a Godzilla film or are going to watch only one Godzilla film this year, watch this one.