Ghidora, The Three Headed Monster
GHIDORA, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER / SAN DAIKAIJU CHIKYU SAIDAI NO KESSEN (1964)
monsters: (GHIDORA, GODZILLA, MOTHRA, RODAN)
Akihiko Hirata........................Shindo - chief police
Yuriko Hoshi..........................Reporter and sister of
Shindo
Emi Ito...................................One of the fairies
Hisaya Ito...............................Head of the team of
assassins
Yumi Ito.................................One of the fairies
Hiroshi Koizumi......................Leader of the expedition
which sees Ghidora come out
of a meteor
Yosuke Natsuki......................Detective
Senkishi Omura.......................Person who tries to
retrieve another man's hat
but is killed by Rodan
Kenji Sahara...........................Editor
Ikio Sawamura........................Fisherman who trades
his clothing to the princess
Takashi Shimura......................Doctor who treats the
princess for amnesia
Yoshibumi Tajima...................Captain of the ship that
is destroyed by Godzilla
Akiko Wakabayashi................Princess
Haruo Nakajima..............GODZILLA
Shoichi Hirose.................GHIDORA
Director: Ishiro Honda
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Special Effects: Eiji Tsuburaya
Music: Akira Ifukube
Photography: Hajime Koizumi
Screenplay: Shinichi Sekizawa
The whole mess begins with an attempt to assassinate the princess of a foreign
country who is on a diplomatic mission to Japan. Her plane explodes but the heroine
rescues herself by a bold jump into the ocean depths. Some time will pass before the
warning she was carrying reaches its destination. It concerns a mysterious meteorite
which crashed on Japanese islands. The word has it that with it came a mythical monster
Ghidora, an intergalactic hooligan, who’s responsible for eradicating life on Mars.
However, before this dragon enters the action, our old acquaintances appear: Godzilla
and Rodan, who, since Rodan, the Flying Monster, was
napping in the rifts of the
volcano Aso. The monsters begin fighting. Our princess arrives to the familiar
island of Infant asking for Mothra’s help. The giant insect comes to the Earth’s
rescue. She attempts to reconcile Godzilla and Rodan so together they can chase the
space intruder away. After a brief moment of hesitation, the monsters reach a truce
and set out to war with Ghidora... His fate is sealed. After everything is over,
“our team” kindly leaves Japan, disappearing in the depths of the Pacific.
The
three-headed dragon Ghidora turns out to be a bullseye. In the original movie series,
he will reappear four times. In Godzilla vs. Monster Zero,
Ghidora’s next picture,
the nearly identical cast includes Godzilla and Rodan.
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