Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959) on Netflix
NR19591h 18mActionAdventureHorrorSci-Fi
Tsukioka and Kobayashi scout for a fishing fleet. When a mechanical fault brings Kobayashi's plane down on a remote island, the two find enormous reptiles locked in combat there.
- Watch on NetflixThis title is not on Netflix right now. Please check back later for updates.
- Watch on Prime
- Watch on NordVPN
- Netflix2.1/5
- IMDb4.2/10270 votes
- Rotten TomatoesNot available
Trailer
Plot summary
Tsukioka and Kobayashi are scouts for a fishing fleet that sails from Osaka. A mechanical fault brings Kobayashi's plane down on the remote island of Iwato, and the two men find enormous reptiles fighting among the rocks. They take off and report to the government in Osaka, where the paleontologists Dr. Tadokoro and Dr. Yamane study what the pilots saw. The doctors name the creatures Gigantis and Anguirus and warn that both are as resistant to ordinary weapons as the fire monster that once destroyed Tokyo. Their fight carries the two creatures off the island and across the ocean toward Osaka.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Rybnick and Barison struck a deal with AB-PT Pictures Corp. to co-finance the planned American film The Volcano Monsters, but the company folded in 1957, and the new monster suits vanished after the project was abandoned and never appeared in any official media.
- Schreibman took credit for renaming Godzilla "Gigantis" to convince audiences it was a brand-new monster, saying they did not want it confused with Godzilla, "who had clearly been killed irreparably by the oxygenator"; he also told reporters the Japanese film was called Angirus.
- For The Volcano Monsters, the abandoned American reworking of Godzilla Raids Again, Ib Melchior and Edwin Watson wrote a 129-page script dated May 7, 1957, with instructions on where the Japanese footage would go; in it Godzilla and Anguirus became dinosaurs, with Godzilla identified as a female Tyrannosaurus.
- George Takei said the dub's director invented the word "banana oil" because he struggled to find a word matching the lip movement of the Japanese word "bakayaro", and that people laughed during the recording because the expression was outdated.
- Masaru Sato's score for the original Japanese film was thrown out, except for a couple of tracks, and replaced with stock music from libraries including MUTEL and from films such as Kronos, Project Moonbase and The Deerslayer.
