Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) on Netflix
G19671h 20mAdventureDramaFantasy
A nuclear test sets off earthquakes in Korea, and the epicenter moves toward Seoul. Scientist Il-Woo searches for a weakness in the creature behind them, while Soona and Icho follow him.
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A family in South Korea gathers for the wedding of an astronaut. He is summoned away to fly a reconnaissance mission, and from the air he watches a nuclear test. The blast sets off an earthquake in Korea whose epicenter keeps moving toward Seoul. The government declares martial law. A photographer's pictures of the cracked ground show a giant creature traveling underground beneath it. Scientist Il-Woo sets out for Seoul to find a weakness in the monster, and Soona and her brother Icho follow him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
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- Korean producers of Yongary, short on experience, shipped all the original negatives and sound elements to Toei, the film's international sales agent, and the material went missing. The original South Korean version is now considered lost, leaving the 1969 American International Pictures English-dubbed version as the only one that survives.
- The Yongary suit was designed in Korea but built in Japan under Masao Yagi, who had built the Gamera suit for Daiei. Director Kim Ki-duk found the result lacked terror and was disappointed, but filmed with it anyway because there was no time or money to make a new suit.
- The screenwriter first planned Yongary as a single-celled organism from space mutated by radiation. Scholar Kim Song-ho found the original Korean script called the nuclear-test country 'Orebia' and the test site the 'Goma Desert', not the Middle East named in the English version.
- Because the original prints were lost, Yongary was unavailable on television and home media in its native South Korea for 44 years; when it finally aired there on June 19, 2011, it was the English version, subtitled in Korean from the film's original Korean script.
- The effects crew shot 280 special effects cuts at a rate of three to five a day. The miniature sets used 15,000 lightbulbs, with two-thirds of all the lighting equipment available in South Korean studios assembled for the film.
