movie

1973 · Japan

Godzilla vs. Megalon

Tonight at a glance

Runtime: 82 min
Age rating: G
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Violence: Mild
Frights: Moderate

Why tonight?

Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
In Japanese — subtitles on.

The story

Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.

underground world
japan
kidnapping
giant monster
giant robot
robot
alien invasion
stock footage
gojira
kaiju

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Kotaro Tomita — Lead Seatopian Agent
Ulf Otsuki — Seatopian Agent
Sakyo Mikami — Truck Driver's Assistant
Fumiyo Ikeda — Man from Unit 1
Robert Dunham — Emperor Antonio of Seatopia
Gentaro Nakajima — Truck Driver
Ralph Jesser — Antonio's Aide (Radio Operator in White)
Shinji Takagi — Godzilla
Hideto Odachi — Megalon
Tsugutoshi Komada — Jet Jaguar
Masachika Mori — Jet Jaguar

Directed: Jun Fukuda
Written: Jun Fukuda, Shinichi Sekizawa

Production

Rating: 6.2 / 10 · 248 ratings
Studio: TOHO, Toho Eizo Bijutsu, Tokyo Laboratory

The Collection

The complete story, in order.

If this stayed with you

Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.