Frankenstein's fight against the devil monsters
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| German title | Frankenstein's fight against the devil monsters | ||
| Original title | Gojira tai Hedora | ||
| Country of production | Japan | ||
| original language | Japanese | ||
| Publishing year | 1971 | ||
| length | 96 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK Unknown (not available) | ||
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| Director | Yoshimitsu Banno | ||
| script | Yoshimitsu Banno Takeshi Kimura (as Kaoru Mabuchi ) |
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Samuel Z. Arkoff Tomoyuki Tanaka |
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| music | Riichirō Manabe | ||
| camera | Yoichi Manoda | ||
| cut | Yoshitami Kuroiwa | ||
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Frankenstein's fight against the devil monsters ( Japanese ゴ ジ ラ 対 ヘ ド ラ , Gojira tai Hedora ) is a Japanese monster film about the movie monster Godzilla from 1971.
action
A colossal mutant emerges from the garbage and dirt with which the people pollute the sea off Tokyo ; called "Hedorah" by the Japanese people, "mud, silt" from hedoro ; Industrial waste ".
When the scientist Dr. Yano wants to examine the monster, he suffers severe burns from this. Hedorah roams the land and feeds on industrial waste. Over time, Hedorah grows stronger and stronger; in addition, Dr. Yano states that the monster is in the amphibious stage and is subject to a transformation process.
Inspired by his son, Dr. Yano finds out that electricity is deadly for Hedorah. Godzilla appears and chases the monster into a purpose-built electric field before Hedorah, now in the form of a flying saucer, flies away. Godzilla flies after and catches Hedorah, who is now also destroyed by him.
backgrounds
The Tōhō studios, for which director Ishirō Honda had invented the film monster Godzilla , looked for new topics for their films by addressing environmental destruction, as the topic of the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the first Godzilla film from 1954 was no longer relevant . They faced competition from the Daiei Pictures film studio, which had recently taken on the same subject with Gamera tai Shinkai Kaiju Jigura (with the turtle-like film monster Gamera ).
Since the head of the Tōhō studios, Tomoyuki Tanaka , was appalled by the implementation of the film made during his hospital stay, Frankenstein's fight against the devil monsters remained the only Godzilla film directed by Yoshimitsu Banno . It wasn't until 2014 that Banno was involved in a Godzilla film again: he co-produced the second American remake .
Premieres
- Japan July 24th 1971
- Germany December 10th 1971
reception
The production cost was 250,000 US dollars. The grossing result was 1.74 million US dollars.
The film received mostly poor ratings. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , 58 percent of the critics rated the film positively, while the audience liked the film 50 percent.
"An imaginative, macabre and evil satire about the powerlessness of humans against the consequences of industrialization."
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
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Buttgereit: Japan - The Monster Island. Godzilla, Gamera, Frankenstein & Co. Berlin 2006, p. 56
- ↑ Frankenstein's fight against the devil monsters. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Godzilla Vs Hedorah (Gojira tai Hedorâ) (Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster) (1971). Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Frankenstein's fight against the devil monsters. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .