Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) on Netflix
NR19641h 32mActionAdventureFantasy
A meteor crashes on Mount Kurodake. A prophetess claiming to come from Venus warns Japan of a three-headed dragon, while Detective Shindo guards Princess Salno of Selgina.
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Plot summary
Reporter Naoko Shindo sits in on a session held by a UFO society for her television program, and her doubts leave it a failure. A meteor shower then crosses Japan, and the largest meteor comes down on Mount Kurodake, where Professor Miura leads a research team that finds it giving off magnetic waves. Detective Shindo, Naoko's brother, is given the job of protecting Princess Salno of Selgina, who faces an assassination plot during her visit to Japan, but the princess leaps from her plane before it explodes. Naoko goes to interview a woman who calls herself a prophetess from Venus, and she predicts that the creature Rodan will emerge from Mount Aso. Shindo and Salno's uncle both take her for the princess, who is thought dead.
Cast
- Someshô Matsumotoas Alien Expert
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
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- Toho had planned to release Red Beard, produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, for the 1964 New Year's holiday, but when that film fell behind schedule Tanaka rushed Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster into production to fill the slot.
- Playing King Ghidorah was a gruelling task for actor Shoichi Hirose, who spent hours hunched over inside the suit supported only by a crossbar while a team of seven men worked the wires on its necks, tails and wings from the soundstage rafters.
- The miniature set for the base of Mount Fuji, built at 1/25th scale, took 12,000 hours to construct.
- The film was the turning point that changed Godzilla from villain to radioactive superhero, and it marked the first time he was teamed with other established monster characters.
- Yoshio Tsuchiya was originally attached to play the assassin Malmess, but his commitments to Red Beard prevented him from taking the part.
- When one edge of Toho's water tank was accidentally exposed on film during Godzilla and Rodan's battle, effects director Eiji Tsuburaya hid the error by superimposing trees over the exposed area.
- Akiko Wakabayashi was allowed by director Ishirō Honda to sleep on the gurney during takes of the shock therapy scenes, having worked on another film the previous night without sleep, and was briefly blinded by the Venusian's flash of light.
- The new monster King Ghidorah was designed as an homage to Yamata no Orochi, a multi-headed serpent from Japanese folktale.
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