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Release Date: 1965 Cast: Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Kumi Mizuno, Nick Adams, Jun Tazaki, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Nobuo Nakamura, Tadao Takashima, Koji Furuhata
Categories: Movies, Horror, Science Fiction, Japanese Movies, World cinema, Costume Horror Frankenstein Conquers the World, released in Japan as Frankenstein versus Subterranean Monster Baragon (フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣バラゴン, Furankenshutain Tai Chitei Kaijū Baragon) is a 1965 Kaiju film produced by Toho. Toho's official English title for the film is Frankenstein vs. Baragon. This film features a Japanese version of the Frankenstein Monster, who becomes giant-sized to fight the giant subterranean monster, Baragon.
This was also the first of three Toho-produced films to star actor Nick Adams, the second being the sixth Godzilla film, Invasion of... MORE
Frankenstein Conquers the World, released in Japan as Frankenstein versus Subterranean Monster Baragon (フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣バラゴン, Furankenshutain Tai Chitei Kaijū Baragon) is a 1965 Kaiju film produced by Toho. Toho's official English title for the film is Frankenstein vs. Baragon. This film features a Japanese version of the Frankenstein Monster, who becomes giant-sized to fight the giant subterranean monster, Baragon.
This was also the first of three Toho-produced films to star actor Nick Adams, the second being the sixth Godzilla film, Invasion of Astro-Monster, and the third being the 1967 spy film, The Killing Bottle. Frankenstein Conquers the World is a fan favorite Toho film not featuring Godzilla. The film is notable for its memorable brooding score by veteran Akira Ifukube (which would be recycled for further use in later Toho films), touch tones of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the infamous Octopus ending, which was intended for the US version but never used. A sequel, The War of the Gargantuas, was produced a year later.
The prologue is set in Nazi Germany during the final days of World War II. A Kriegsmarine Officer, flanked by three Commandos, barges LESS
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