Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
Furankenshutain tai Baragon
A fearsome kaijin? A mad new antagonistic kaiju? A golden entertainment epic of Japan-U.S. collaboration!
87 min
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
- Release date
- August 8, 1965
- Country of origin
- Japan
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
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Trailer
Cast
- Tadao Takashima as Dr. Yuzo Kawaji
- Nick Adams as Dr. James Bowen
- Kumi Mizuno as Dr. Sueko Togami
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Mr. Kawai
- Kôji Furuhata as Frankenstein
- Jun Tazaki as Military Advisor
- Susumu Fujita as Osaka Police Chief
- Takashi Shimura as Axis Scientist
- Nobuo Nakamura as Skeptical Museum Chief
- Kenji Sahara as Soldier
- Hisaya Itô as Osaka Police Sergeant
- Yoshifumi Tajima as Murata, Japanese Imperial Navy submarine captain
- Kôzô Nomura as Newspaper Reporter
- Haruya Katô as TTV Director
- Ikio Sawamura as Housekeeper
- Yoshio Kosugi as JSDF Executive
- Keiko Sawai as Tsuruko Toida
- Noriko Takahashi as Girl in Shirane hut
- Peter Mann as Dr. Liesendorf
- Ren Yamamoto as Motoki
- Yutaka Sada as Hospital Secretary
- Kenzō Tabu as Newspaper Employee
- Shigeki Ishida as University Professor
- Haruo Nakajima as Baragon / JSDF Soldier
- Yutaka Nakayama as TTV Lighting man
- Senkichi Ōmura as TTV Lighting man
- Nadao Kirino as Okabe policeman
- Shin Ôtomo as Sugiyama policeman
- Shôichi Hirose as Tunnel Worker
Crew
- Ishirō Honda · Director
- Reuben Bercovitch · Writer
- Takeshi Kimura · Writer
- John Meredyth Lucas · Writer
- Shin'ichi Sekizawa · Writer
- Samuel Z. Arkoff · Producer
- James H. Nicholson · Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka · Producer
- Akira Ifukube · Composer
- Hajime Koizumi · Cinematographer
- Ryōhei Fujii · Editor
- Takeo Kita · Production designer