Up From The Depths Reviews | King Kong Escapes (1967)
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2020
- The mad scientist Dr. Who captures the mighty King Kong in an effort obtain the rare and valuable Element X.
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Released: July 22, 1967
Producers: Tomoyuki Tanaka and Arthur Rankin Jr.
Director: Ishiro Honda
Screenplay: Kaoru Mabuchi
Music: Akira Ifukube
Special Effects: Eiji Tsuburaya
Starring:
Rhodes Reason as Commander Carl Nelson
Akira Takarada as Lt. Commander Jiro Nomura
Linda Jo Miller as Lt. Susan Watson
Hideyo Amamoto as Dr. Who
Mie Hama as Madame Piranha
Kong portrayed by Haruo Nakajima, Gorosaurus and Mechani-Kong portrayed by Yū Sekidai
#KingKong #KingKongEscapes
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This and Destroy All Monsters were the centerpieces of any Godzilla marathon on the Sci-Fi Channel for me growing up.
The USA network played the hell out of this as well as TBS back in the 80's.
I really loved this film.
That's an unbeatable combination!
Interesting that Mechani-Kong actually preceded Mechagodzilla. Those two should have a showdown movie!
Mecha-Godzilla will win of course.....reason Mecha-Godzilla has more weapons then Mechani-Kong which that robot only have Grenades and seeing them fight it didn't use any of them probably because plot armor. But yes I agree I want to see these mechanical titans fight.
@@kaiju-dr5qn But this is the upgraded version of MechaniKong with new combat capabilities!
@@7superdaimajin like what
That shouldn't even be a battle. Mechagodzilla would win with the first hit from his rainbow laser eyes
@@7superdaimajin mechagodzilla has more than 10 weapons in him and he made godzilla bleed and broke anguirus jaw with no problem and beat the shit out of king ceasar with no problem. How do you think mechani kong is gonna beat him. Mechani kong only has light eyes that only effect kong and missles that he doesn't even use and aren't that useful and he was defeated by dropping 6 feet down. You see why mechani kong cant beat mechagodzilla now
If Susan landed on your island, you'd go bananas too.
Kong was justified in his actions is all I'm saying..
She did not age well... ruclips.net/video/TqirXq39Nkk/видео.html
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Besides, Kong has a type: blonde women. Except the Monsterverse Kong since they didn't want to redo a King Kong movie which doesn't seem so repetitive. I'm sure it may not look like it to me, but it looks like it to someone else.
I had a mecha-Kong action figure as a kid. Never really knew what it was from, or where it came from, until now. Pretty big size for an action figure too, it’s sitting in the garage atm. I knew it must have come from a Kaiju movie, but one with King Kong? Like I made jokes at the time it was Mecha-Kong, now I’m watching this video, and there clear as day is a life-size version of that toy fighting King Kong. Suffice to say: This made my freaking day. Thanks.
Probably worth serious money as well.
They used to sell them at Spencer's Gifts.
Could be worth some serious dough if it came from Japan and not a cheap Chinese knockoff.
I freakin' love this movie. Something about it is so charming.
I love this Kong film. Better then King Kong 1976 film. That film has great opportunity but fails to be.
@Gasper Vidovic Just rereading my old comment. Meant to say 1976 missed the opportunity to be a great adventure film. Reasons is lack of Monster fight from this film. Only one fight was the giant snake and that is it. And I don't count military battling Kong as a monster fight. Like the film from Peter Jackson Kong battled different creatures.
@Gasper Vidovic That is my opinion. Besides even the original had more action. And not saying action is better but it just need to satisfy my entertainment level. If drama stuff is you go to that is fine. I am just more into other stuff.
@Gasper Vidovic Thanks. Happy Holidays.👍
I'm kinda suprised mechani kong has yet to return in a film only in early concepts
He was supposed to fight Godzilla in the heisei series after Godzilla Vs. King ghidorah but they found out mothra was popular among the female demographic so they made Godzilla vs. Mothra instead.
While Gorosaurus was generic enough to escape such scrutiny, Mechani-Kong is so closely connected to King Kong that it falls under Kong's copyright. Once Toho let permission to use Kong lapse, Mechani-Kong was off the board as well.
He did kind of return in the Godzilla animated series.
The problem is Toho doesn't have exclusive rights to him. He's sort of complicated. I think the Rankin Bass portfolio owns a piece of him as well. So it costs extra to use him again and they have to cut a side deal. It's also why you don't see much Merchandise of him. Now might be the best time to have a chance of seeing him again as Warner Brothers owns the Rankin Bass stuff and Toho currently has a fairly evolved partnership with WB.
@@ScreamingScallop The problem isn't so much the global Kong license, which they may be able to work around. Most licences didn't cover derivatives back then. They could likely use him but change the name. The big problem is King Kong Escapes was a fully joint venture with Rankin Bass. So Rankin Bass (The Rudolf people) own a piece of MechaniKong as well. They were hoovered up by Warner Brothers years ago.
Of course every time the villian refers to himself as Doctor Who I keep expecting a TARDIS to show up.
I've seen that character's name spelled as Dr. Huu which makes far more sense and doesn't confuse him with our favourite Time Lord.
A natural set-up for a sequel: Huu vs. Who
@Spok I had completely forgotten that that was a real thing that totally exists. Thanks for reminding me.
@@denniskristos3800 ye it's spelt as Huu in the subtitles
He does resemble a Japanese William Hartnell.
*Watching King Kong vs. Godzilla*
"Hm, not really a fan of the great Tsuburaya making Kong a comedic doofus. That design just isn't cutting it for me."
King Kong Escape Suit: Hold my berry juice.
I definitely prefer the Escapes version of Kong rather than the KKvG design. In King Kong vs Godzilla, the kong suit looks like if Sasquatch got ran over 50 times by a semi truck.
@@c0l1n_m45 I dunno, as doofy is KKvG Kong is there is something JUST SLIGHTLY more natural about the face, at least the suit one while the face for Escape is very stiff. To be fair nostalgia is playing into this too I'm sure.
Seriously though 0:50 is the only reason to watch this movie that cracks mE UP EVERYTIME.
Smansam I havent seen this since I was 7 or 8 yrs old, but seeing it now as an adult, youre right!! I just watched that (straight to the point) with zero compromise, skull remodeling, about 10x in a row just now, & heading back for more! #brutal
LOL
The disrespect
This movie and King Kong vs Godzilla are tied for my favorite Kong movies. Mechani Kong has a badass design and Gorosaurus stole the spotlight from Kong for a bit. The battles in this movies were great as well. This movie is so underrated. Deserves way more love.
Mecha-kong's theme and king Kong's love ballad are two of akira ifukube's memorable scores. One of my guilty pleasure films thanks for an honest and "non degrading" review.
This was a good Kaiju movie in all honesty. And I agree the human characters in this movie are well done.
Yep. I want to do a remake using only traditional FX techniques including man-a-suit monsters.
Actually, It IS the most memorable for me. It was the first Kong movie I ever saw, as a kid.
Wow - I just Loved this film when I was a kid ! Still love it - it's a perfect guilty pleasure ...!
Great review.
A little insight from the time. I was seven years old when "King Kong Escapes" debuted shortly after 1st grade let off for summer vacation.
At the time all I saw, or needed to see was the trailer on a TV spot, and a check of the local paper showed wonderful ads. I lobbied Dad to take me to see it- the trailer's glimpse of the Mecha-Kong sold me on the spot. Mine was the same demographic age group that the "King Kong" animated TV series was aiming at, and it worked! I was eager to see it.
No success at home. Dad saw that the credits showed Japanese director & actors, and he said their movies were "no good" just men in monster suits. I was crushed. He wouldn't take me to see it.
Local kids saw it though, and that fall they told me all about it. A real hoot! Told me the outline of the story too.
It was about six years later that I happened to catch the last 30 minutes of it on TV. Recognized the Mecha-Kong. Was quite pleased with it. Finally saw it in full length about 20 years later, off an imported Toho 12" laser disc that I could rent. I enjoyed it all. The Special effects had their good, and not so good moments. They were at their best when at the end of the film, Kong is loping along a dock to catch Dr. Huu's ship, closely followed by a car miniature. Worst were the water effects, which in those days before CGI, couldn't be convincingly reduced in scale. It didn't help when the Kong suit got soaked. For all that "King Kong Escapes" remains delightful entertainment.
I was a fifth-year student in Japanese primary school when I watched" King Kong Escapes" with my mother and a younger brother at a movie theater in Japan. As a former Kaiju movie fan, I`m glad that this movie is still loved by many moviegoers all over the world though 53 years have passed since it was released.
I first saw this movie at a Saturday Matinee when I was a kid. I am still fond of it no matter the effects. Doctor Huu was awesome.
I always found MECHA KONG stance sooo cool! The music during the scene he chases Kong over the ice is dope! Makes him look more powerful than he really is.
Here in Germany this movie is called "son of Frankenstein" hahaha
What is the actual Son of Frankenstein called over there?
@@platinumpancakes8749 Frankensteins Sohn which means Son of Frankenstein lol. The German Titles for those old Toho Movies are really messed up. They named a lot of them "frankenstein" because they thought it would bring more Revenue. Godzilla VS. Gigan for example is called "Frankensteins Hellbreed" and Destroy all Monsters is called "Frankenstein and the Monsters from outer Space".
@@KanaroBurglaar if i remember correctly part of the reason is that all the monster after Frankenstein conquer the world are just Frankenstein monsters that are born from its cells blown apart
@@platinumpancakes8749 It gets even weirder. Both Jet Jaguar and Mechagodzilla were named King Kong in the german versions.
Germany is weird
I had no idea this even existed. And I thought I knew "King Kong."
This entire thing sounds bonkers. And is a Toho film...so hype.
I believe this movie is more popular than you may think, it was always on TV when I was a kid, and today those R&B stop motion shorts and movies are still popular...the connection sparks interest. I first seen this one at a Canadian air force base, on a huge screen, my friends and I all approved. The 2nd time I seen it, it was on TV after school, and I actually watched it with my mom, she said "cute".
For a non Godzilla toho film, I actually loved it when I saw it on TV as a kid. I thought Kong looked better, I finally got to see Gorosaurus in action (and not just from pics in old monster mags), and thought Mechani-Kong looked cool as hell. Would have LOVED a battle between Mechani-Kong and the Big G, circa '63, '64, and even '69. This was just fun.
I think it helped that I caught it by surprise as a kid on a Sunday, when I was having a horrid week and was dreading returning to school the next day. Kaiju sort of helped with that.
I saw my first Gamera a film when I was 7 on USA's Captain USA's Groovy Movies (he was sort of a "bad movie" host that showed tons of great genre films). I had just come home from seeing my mother, and having her explain to me that her and my dad were indeed getting a divorce. I was devastated. But , for some reason, when I came home and turned the TV on, I had an odd feeling of relief. Captain USA showing Gamera vs. Barugon was like he was saying "Hey kid. It'll be ok". Weird...I know. But it was the same way with this film. I think that is why I like it so much.
Sorry for the rant. It just always had a place in my memory bank. Keep up the great work , man. Love this channel
I just realized the other day that the actor who plays Doctor Who is the same guy who plays the old prophet in GMK.
Hideyo Amamoto, AKA Eisei Amamoto, also played the matriarch of the Gavanas in Message From Space and had roles in Gorath, The Lost World of Sinbad, Matango, Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, Godzilla vs the Sea Monster, Dogora the Space Monster, Ultra Q, Kamen Rider and everything from crime dramas to Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Yojimbo. But the fact that the same guy played both the soft-spoken toymaker who looks after Ichiro in All Monsters Attack/Godzilla's Revenge AND the smug heartless bastard Dr. Who in KKE still blows my mind.
@@ScreamingScallop He was also in the Woody Allen Comedy-Whats Up, Tiger Lily?
@@darkwolf-22 Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (International Secret Police: Key of Keys) was a Japanese "Spy-Comedy" that Woody Allen re-cut, re-dubbed, and re-arranged into WUTL.
I know, it originally began as a Japanese homage of James Bond.
@@darkwolf-22 Yes. I just did a check and there was a series of these films I did not know about. It would be nice to get the original Japanese version with English subtitles or an English dub. And the Woody Allen adaptation is still very funny.
This movie is a classic ! Absolutely loved it when I was a kid and as a adult today .
Thank you
Dr. Who. The worst teeth in cinematic history!! :)
Wow. I never knew this was the origin of the machine doppelganger. These reviews are so great with all the extra info added in for context and deeper understanding.
Hideyo amamoto plays the role of who amazingly, a great job creating a new version of who for the rating.
Wow! I never knew this film existed. Thanks for covering this and showing me something new. I'm gonna have to go find a copy and watch it now. Mechani-Kong is awesome! How awesome would it be to have a movie featuring Godzilla, MechaGodzilla, King Kong and Mechani-Kong in some sorta tag-team save the earth spectacle. Here's hoping the upcoming Godzilla vs. King Kong movie will have MechaGodzilla and Mechani-Kong in it. That'd be one heck of a movie!
For sure
Available on DVD and BluRay. Also in a double feature pack with KK vs. Godzilla.
I just got it in a 3-pack w/"KK vs. Godzilla" and Peter Jackson's "King Kong".
Great movie, classic Japanese kaiju movie making. My favorites were all from the 60’s which of course includes War of the Gargantuas
I seen this movie when it came out in 67. I was a kid. Loved it.
Such a cool movie to watch as a kid back then. Times have changed yes, but the road went right through here.
There was other Japanese King Kong films before king Kong Escapes like King Kong Appears in Edo pre-dating Gojira sadly there lost
This was part of a double bill in Toronto, Canada along with the film "The Counterfeit Killer". I remember making sure I got in at the time KK was shown first so I could watch it a second time after the other movie.
I am watching this right now. As a big fan of Ishiro Honda and his sci-fi adventures with horrible monsters, I had to watch this absolute jewel of freak japanese cinema
Just a thought. I wonder if Legendary would ever consider reviving Mechani King in the Monsterverse?
Toho an awesome studio made some STRANGE choices back in the day - why didn't they just make a sequel to King Kong vs Godzilla while they maintained the movie rights to KIng Kong????? Crazy.
One of the best movies of King Kong
It seemed like this movie was on every other month on saturday. Great Fights, Cute women and the blood spitting death of Dr Who used to make me nauseous as a kid.
"Kong! Run away Kong!Kong! Get that Ship, Kong!!" A Classic! Nice, fair review. You will never see movies like this again folks.
'get' the ship 🤣
The robot Kong was cool!
0:38 Technically a lost film called "Wasei Kingu Kongu" came out decades before this one.
can it be found on DVD?
@@01sweetdelight94 There were reported to be 2 Japanese "Kong" films made between in 1938. All are classified as "lost with no surviving print having been found". Presumably lost in the bombing of Japan during WW2. Wasei Kingu Kinga supposedly was a film where a guy dresses up in a Kong suit on a stage to make money. It was made to cash in on the success of KK when it was released in Japan. It too has been classified as lost.
@@garfieldsmith332 thank you for replying with so much great information that I didn't know.
@@01sweetdelight94 That is what is so great about you-tube. I have learned a great many things by watching videos and also having people respond with information and help. I am a movie and soundtrack buff so I always look to find out more. An no matter how much the special effects improve, these old Toho films, and the old sci-fi films from the USA are still great viewing
@@garfieldsmith332 I couldn't agree more with you.
Should have won a Oscar for Best Picture
0:46 King Kong vs Godzilla: Am I a joke to you?
Your reviews are great! I enjoy them a lot
One of the henchmen (with a small moustache) was played by Kurobe Susumu who played Shin Hayata in Ultraman 1966 series!
A fun film to watch with a big bowl of popcorn. Forget about Kong and Dr. Who and the monsters. In this film there is the gorgeous Linda Miller and the gorgeous Mie Hama. Miller did not do much acting after this film and Hama played Kissy Suziki in You Only Live Twice (the girl who "marries" Bond-san).
Have you ever thought of doing reviews on the Ultraman shows and movies? Either with each episode getting it's own review or a summarised review of the whole series like a whole Ultraseven review.
This is a movie that is almost never shown these days. And it was rare even in the 70's and 80's, at least in Northeast Ohio. It was just shown last weekend on some channel I don't have access to, so it's not completely forgotten. Thanks for this review.
Fun Fact: kkvg and this movie were not the only Japanese King Kong films, they were 2 King Kong movies in 1930s that are now lost films and only stills remain.
I saw this movie once on TV. and I finally found and DVD, It's a good fun film to kill time and now I have it on Blu-Ray. still looks fun to watch. Much better then (76 & 05 who do the same remake over and over again).
The only one I've never seen
Klayton Fioriti watch it, you won’t regret it ;)
Watch it
I can't believe I only heard about this movie this past week, when Linda Miller was at a con!
Do you also plan on reviewing the animated King Kong movie "The Mighty Kong (1998)?" I would love to hear your thoughts on that! xD
It's such a pure and funny film, I love it.
I just watched this like 2 weeks ago, it was ultra silly, but I can’t say I remembered all that much about it.
What I do remember is the villains awful teeth!
Silly and kinda goofy, but that was some of the charm. Its all we had back then. Us folks with a few years to us have witnessed the what was to what is and the steps of evolution between. This applies to many things. Such as the KOTM recent film. Decades of waiting to see the 4 of them come to life with todays tech meant a lot. Its a different appreciation having watched these monsters for over 40 years.
I’m not that far behind you. I’m coming up on middle age and 30 years of watching these films myself.
I didn’t mean it as a pejorative when I called it ultra silly. I do find that charming and part of the appeal as well.
Especially when you take the time frame into account.
More what I was trying to get at was that the silliness in this film didn’t translate into anything memorable as it did for many other Showa era kaiju films.
@@noblegas7073 as soon as they called Ghidorah "Monster Zero" I had a feeling many more nods to history were coming. They git the quick tail whip and stomp on his neck in just like I wanted to see. At the end when he was flying after her he was slow and horizontal and not very high that scene from a distance was a great addition. Mothras scales as her last defense was cool. Yeah we had to take those steps over the decades and all that campiness. Great memories. Theres just one monster event left I want to see and thats Godzilla hearing the whirring sound and watching Gamera flying in spinning and landing in front of big G with a roar. Id rather see Gamera with Godzilla than Kong and Godzilla. Theres money out there to pull it off.
I LOVE THESE MOVIES SINCE I WAS A KID .
NOW I STILL LOVE THEM MORE I SMOKE A NICE BLUNT AND ENJOY THEM EVEN MORE
0:50
Giant Sea Serpent "Out of the blue!!"
I love this movie!!
"So Frank, did Consolidated Mining get the hardware contract on that element X job?"
"It went to some guy with a giant mechanical gorilla."
"..."
"Steve, I told you those lead times would put us out of spec!"
This was fun to watch back in the 70's . Unfortunately until now it has been stuck and hidden away from movie goers. This is a good movie to see at least once for true fans.
I gotta know, where did you find this good of quality subbed version of the film to watch?
lol imagine if he re reviewed King Kong vs Godzilla for Kong a thon?
I'm looking forward to you reviewing King Kong '76. Its my favourite version of the story.
Best Non Godzilla Toho movie.
The Kong suit looks much better then the dopey looking monkey.
The Mecha Kong suit is the best!!!
This movie needs a Blu-Ray Criterion version!!!
Kong fought his Evil Twin in this one? Seems like that storyline has been used in a lot of places.
I love this film so much
Great review. I've always loved this movie. Where did you get a Japanese language version? I haven't been able to find one.
This is a great flick. It is weird and oddball so much that the ridiculous parts, which are many, don't matter.
5:50-5:57 the exact same problem with the monsterverse’s kotm
UnknownGoji1207 I disagree. Kotm was, in my opinion, better than some of the dumb action movies we get nowadays. I understand it’s cheesy and has A TON of fan service, but it’s still a great film. The monsters give off great emotion and I didn’t actually mind the family story this time around.
Exactly! Most of the scenes involving the classic Toho kaiju in KOTM had already been done in Toho's older Godzilla films. Even worse is that most of those older films did it better. For example, Burning Godzilla from "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah" was much more impactful because it served a greater narrative purpose (Especially since that movie was originally intended to be Toho's last Godzilla movie), as opposed to KOTM's Fire Godzilla, which solely exists as both an overly contrived reference to "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah" and as a deus ex machina for Godzilla to defeat King Ghidorah.
nerdsman567 agreed, kotm was just boring, stupid garbage, choosing to copy everything Toho has done rather than make its own identity.
@@nerdsman567 @nerdsman567 I think the whole Burning Godzilla in KOTM thing was a bit of a double reference. One to GvD, obviously, but I can't help but wonder if it's a reference to the mythical Hydra as well. If I recall correctly, the only way to kill a hydra was to cauterize the stumps of its necks after you chopped the head off. In other words, you burn it-which is more or less what Goji does go Ghidorah at the end of the movie. It wouldn't surprise me, considering the MonsterVerse's "all myths are actually kaiju" approach.
GvD of course has a greater gut punch factor (it's one of the few movie scenes that actually moves me to tears when I watch it), but I'm fine with how KOTM did it too.
...wait a minute, how did we start talking about KOTM in a King Kong Escapes video?
JurassicKaiju14 I haven’t seen King Kong escapes yet so
The best ToHo Kaiju flik.. followed by War of the Gargantuas.
Svengoolie's actually showing Son of Kong this weekend so funny timing on your last video.
Sven still doing horror movies? Cool. Is it the original or grandson. Spent many weekends back in the 70s watching Sven.
@@rushfan9thcmd Well it's Rich Koz
You posted this video a year ago, but I'm just watching it. How did you get footage of the Japanese cut of this film? It doesn't seem to be available commercially states-side like a lot of Toho produced Kong films.
Love this movie!
Great little film. I saw this on a double bill with The Counterfeit Killer (starring Jack Lord).
man guess i have to watch this film too, man the two next films the king kong franchise are some of the worst but happy to see this channel reviewing them so i know what im getting in to when i go to watch them.
I have this one it came in a DVD combo pack with King Kong vs Godzilla.
Awesome
This was one of my favorite movies when i was a little kid... WHen asked what i wanted to watch I always said "big monkey movie!"
I didn't grow up with this one so I can't watch it with the rose colored glasses of nostalgia .. if it's supposed to be silly then it succeeds perfectly
While the Kong suit looked a little rough I think the Mechani Kong suit looked good and you can't go wrong with a scenery chewing villain with a half baked plan it is what gives these movies their charm.
Actually, both Mechanikong and Dr. Who were introduced on "The King Kong Show" which, like "KIng Kong Escapes", was co-produced by Rankin & Bass Productions (the cartoon was made with Toei Animation).
Both were redesigned by Toho, making their Dr. Who resemble the BBC's famous time lord (the cartoon's original was a short guy with a large, bald head with glasses, a lab coat and black gloves), while Mechanikong became silver and had hands instead of the cartoon's brown color and claws...
Kong is lots of things but he isnt a monster. At least I never saw him as such. Japanese women are quite often beautiful but this film has a bevy of geogeous ladies. Mia Hama is to die for!
" . . . the only King Kong movie Japan ever made . . . ." Really? According to some sources, the Japanese made at least two Kong films for local consumption prior to the Second World War. I don't believe either has survived. CuffColl.
Here's an article about the comedy short from '33, and supposedly a "serious" film was also shot and marketed, though both were lost in the war: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei_Kingu_Kongu
I love that we give Tahoe in the right to our big monster and they make this pretty great King Kong movie that both pays homage to the original and does its own thing, and then a few years later the Americans try to do the same exact thing with Godzilla and butcher it to the point where it wouldn't be seen again in American cinemas for almost 20 years. Point: Japan
Saw this movie in 1968 in Hackensack Nj at the Oriantani movie house
4:27 They told me this movie would be my big break, and Look What Happened! 🦖
omg this movie rocks independently of the og kong movie, i loved kong on skull island and the rnew gidzilla vs kong
also love inspite of its awkeardness the original godzilla kong movie i have no problem that stuff is redone, i love this about movies wnen they do a good fun job of retelling the story.
now tha weird slow long kong movie with jack black, and the very universal studios 1970s american reboot are ok yjey have their moments. gotta give credit to people who put their energy into this kind of genre.
sorry freakin mecha kong is so crazy, the music the sets the whole thing is awesome
my opinion you have your own and that is awesome, because we love this stuff. thank you
Kong is stoned in this one.
I have a weird love for this one. MechaniKong is what endears it to me. That's the showstopper. The unique stamp that sets it apart from the others and the various remakes. Well that and Dr. Wuu. I just wish Bandai would give us a bloody S H Figuarts MechaniKong to proudly stand alongside the complete set of MechaGodzilla's.
Interesting that it was another remake since that's what King Kong vs. Godzilla was too
Where did get the Japanese version with English sub titles?
That’s my Dad staring RHODES REASON
Question: Do you plan on doing reviews of other King Kong movies like 1998's The Mighty Kong and Kong: King of Atlantis?
I'm sure I'll do Mighty Joe Young (I saw that in theaters) but not sure about the other. But I'm open to it!
@@UpFromTheDepths88 Oh I was actually talking about another movie called The Mighty Kong (an animated musical remake of King Kong) that came out around the same time as the Mighty Joe Young remake but hey I be down with a review of Mighty Joe Young. Also kinda surprised you didn't make a Doctor Who joke as everyone makes a Doctor Who joke when talking about this movie. lol.
@@Manda1771 Sorry for the confusion, I saw "Mighty" and just automatically saw "Joe Young" lol. And yeah, everyone makes that joke, which is why I resisted the temptation.
@@UpFromTheDepths88 how about reviewing UK's Giant Ape entry, "Konga" (1961) w/90's "Batman's" Alfred (Michael Gough) as a mad scientist.
Very much enjoy your reviews 👍
That Asian lead actress is gorgeous!
She was a Bond girl too
@@mucf9961 Wow Thanx for the reply
@@mcdonoghrahloh459 you only live twice.
@@jeffroegner1499 Gotcha thanx for the reply
Love this movie. Kong also looks better than in KKvsGZ imo
Just think about it. This movie would be cutting edge in 1967. I know I would have enjoyed the movie on the big screen. Corny or campy but no one would have known back in 1967.
The main thing I got out of this film was: It’s weird seeing someone *taller* than Akira Takarada for once 😄
Actually, there're two King Kong movies made in Japan a few years following the 1933 release of the original. Or so many internet sources claim. Supposedly, both Japanese versions were destroyed during the Second World War. A fun possibility to think about, anyway. CuffColl.
The great Paul Frees as the voice of Dr. Huu....
0:29 somewhere in the movie, Hayata must’ve gone somewhere to do *something*
The white guy looks so much like Sean Connery I wonder if it was intentional.