The flying monsters of Osaka

Movie
German title	The flying monsters of Osaka
Original title	Sora no Daikaijū Radon
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese , Mandarin , Tagalog
Publishing year	1956
length	82 minutes
Rod
Director	Ishirō Honda
script	Takeshi Kimura Ken Kuronuma Takeo Murata
production	Tomoyuki Tanaka
music	Akira Ifukube
camera	Isamu Ashida
cut	Kōichi Iwashita
occupation
Kenji Sahara : Shigeru Kawamura, mining engineer Yumi Shirakawa : Kiyo, Shigeru's fiancée Akihiko Hirata : Kyuichiro Kashiwagi, biologist Akio Kobori : Police Chief Nishimura Minosuke Yamada : Mine boss Osaki Yoshifumi Tajima : Izeki, newspaper reporter Yasuko Nakada : Honeymooner Kiyoharu Onaka : honeymooner Ichirō Chiba : Chief of the Police Station Tsurue Ichimanji : Haru, Kiyo's neighbor Saburō Iketani : News anchor Saburō Kadowaki : Sunagawa's colleague Tateo Kawasaki : Tsunesan, miner Kanta Kisaragi : Suteyan, miner

The flying monsters of Osaka ( Japanese 空 の 大 怪 獣 ラ ド ン , Sora no Daikaijū Radon , Eng. "Giant Monster of Heaven Radon") is a Kaijū film by Godzilla director Ishirō Honda from 1956 and is the first film that the movie monster Rodan is about.

action

Fatalities occur in a mine, soon including the suspect miner and some of the investigating police officers.

A giant insect called Meganulon breaks into the home of mine worker Shigeru Kawamura and his fiancée Kiyo and attacks them both. The police can only kill the creature after unsuccessful fire on a coal dump.

The military found other insect creatures in the mine and tried to destroy them. Shigeru succeed, as he beings in a Lore rams. In the process, however, it is buried and triggers an earthquake. At the hospital, Shigeru is found to have suffered amnesia .

Meanwhile, a pilot chases a mysterious flying object over the Pacific, which then destroys his plane. At the same time, a young couple disappears from the Aso volcano, leaving behind only a lady's shoe and a camera. A picture of the camera shows a kind of wing. The biologist Dr. Kashiwagi identifies it as the wing of a giant flying lizard.

In the meantime, Shigeru has regained his memory and remembers how a kite hatched from an egg and ate several meganulons. The experts come to the conclusion that the same creature is behind everything that happened, namely a giant flying lizard called Rodan.

The military chased the flying lizard to Sasebo , where it destroyed the Sakai Bridge. In Fukuoka it causes further destruction; a second flying lizard also appears there.

In the meantime, Dr. Kashiwagi and Shigeru saw some human bones on the Aso and witnessed an avalanche of dust created by Rodan, which revealed the hiding place of the two flying lizards. The military shoots at the Aso, causing the volcano to erupt. The two flying lizards perish in the lava.

Reviews

"Honda, the inventor of the popular cinema monster 'Godzilla', staged this utopian nightmare fairy tale with elaborate special effects and an absurd story based on a similar pattern."

- Lexicon of international film

literature

• Jörg Buttgereit : Japan - The Monster Island. Godzilla, Gamera, Frankenstein & Co. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-927795-44-5

Web links

• The flying monster of Osaka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The flying monsters of Osaka on monstrula.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Flying Monsters of Osaka. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .