Frankenstein and the monsters from space
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| German title | Frankenstein and the monsters from space | ||
| Original title | Kaijū Sōshingeki | ||
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| Country of production | Japan | ||
| original language | Japanese | ||
| Publishing year | 1968 | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Ishirō Honda | ||
| script | Ishirō Honda, Takeshi Kimura |
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| production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | ||
| music | Akira Ifukube | ||
| camera | Taiichi Kankura | ||
| cut | Ryōhei Fujii | ||
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Frankenstein and the monsters from space ( Japanese 怪 獣 総 進 撃 , Kaijū Sōshingeki , German "Monster General Attack ") is a Japanese fantasy film from 1968 about the Japanese film monster ( Kaijū ) Godzilla .
action
The film takes place in 1999, which is then in the future. People have set up a space base on the moon; Godzilla and his monster friends are housed on an island where they are monitored by scientists from the United Nations Scientific Council (UNSC).
But one day the scientists working on the island are knocked out by an enigmatic escaping gas. Despite the security technology installed on the island, the monsters break out: Godzilla attacks the UN building in New York, Gorosaurus destroys the Triumphal Arch in Paris, Pterosaur Rodan the Kremlin in Moscow, while the sea serpent Manda haunts London and the giant moth Mothra causes a train wreck in China . Lt. Katsuo and his colleagues arrive from the lunar station to investigate the incidents. There he finds the scientist Dr. Otani and his assistant Kyoko. Dr. Otani reveals that he controls the monsters. Then the queen of the Kilaakers, an alien civilization made up entirely of women, appears and reveals that her people will now rule over the earth. However, their use of gas against Katsuo and his people fails because of their gas masks.
When Dr. Otani throws himself out of the window a little later during an interrogation, it turns out that he too was remote-controlled by the Kilaakers. This gives Katsuo the idea to search for the command center of the Kilaakers in order to prevent the monsters from further destruction. Katsuo and his people break into the command center located on the moon and manage to destroy the device that controls the monsters, despite the resistance of the Kilaakers. The monsters that have gathered in Tokyo in the meantime are now independent and continue their way to Mount Fuji . They have to defend themselves against the three-headed flying monster King Ghidorah and a flame-throwing UFO, but defeat them and the rest of the Kilaakers. Then they can continue to live peacefully on the monster island
background
In Destroy All Monsters it was the twentieth Kaiju film of Toho and the ninth entry to movie monster Godzilla. Despite the German title, the film has nothing to do with the figure of the scientist , invented by Mary Shelley , who strives to create an artificial human being. The German distributor chose this film title only because of its advertising effectiveness; To explain this, the German version of the film mentions Frankenstein as the “man who stands above everything”.
After the previous films made by director Jun Fukuda, Frankenstein and the Monsters from the Sea and Frankenstein's Monsters Chasing Godzilla's Son, were received negatively by the audience , Ishirō Honda, who made the original Godzilla film in 1954 , took over again at Frankenstein and the monsters from space (see Godzilla ), directing. The music for the film is from Akira Ifukube, who by then had already written the music for most of the Godzilla films; he saw himself with Frankenstein and the monsters from space in the tradition of the leitmotif established by Richard Wagner , by assigning each monster its own musical theme. Eiji Tsuburaya , the specialist for special effects who was experienced with Godzilla, was only able to supervise the trick work on Frankenstein and the monsters from space, among other things for health reasons ; the executing animation technician of the film was Teishō Arikawa (nickname of Sadamasa Arikawa in the same Japanese spelling), who had been Tsuburaya's effects cameraman for a long time. Frankenstein and the monsters from space was supposed to be the last Godzilla film, but Toho had changed his mind after the great success. With this success came approximately $ 2 million in the box office in Japan. (On a budget of $ 2.5 million)
Reviews
The film received relatively positive reviews. The critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website rated the film 75 percent positive. The film also received a good result from the audience, 69 percent thought the film was good.
"Imaginative, tricky science fiction film with great color design, but weaknesses in the dramaturgy."
Premieres
- Japan 1st August 1968
- USA 23rd May 1969
- Germany January 27th 1971
literature
- Gernot Gricksch: Godzilla. From Japan to Hollywood: Everything about the most famous monster in film history. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-13836-8 .
- Jens Hauser: Godzilla - the incredible success story of the cult monster. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-61110-4 .
- Jörg Buttgereit : Japan - The Monster Island. Godzilla, Gamera, Frankenstein & Co. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-927795-44-5 .
Web links
- Destroy All Monsters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Frankenstein and the monsters from space . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2010 (PDF; test number: 43 107 V).
- ↑ Jörg Buttgereit: Japan - The Monster Island. Godzilla, Gamera, Frankenstein & Co. Berlin 2006, p. 47
- ↑ Frankenstein and the monsters from space. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
- ^ Destroy All Monsters (1969). Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
- ↑ - Frankenstein and the monsters from space