Godzilla vs. Gigan

Godzilla vs. Gigan
Godzilla vs. Gigan
	Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	地球攻撃命令ゴジラ対ガイガン
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Chikyū Kōgeki Meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan
Directed by	Jun Fukuda
Written by	Shinichi Sekizawa
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring	Hiroshi Ishikawa; Tomoko Umeda; Yuriko Hishimi; Minoru Takashima; Zan Fujita; Toshiaki Nishizawa; Kunio Murai
Cinematography	Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production; company	Toho-Eizo
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	March 12, 1972;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	$1.2 million
Box office	$20 million

Godzilla vs. Gigan (Japanese: 地球攻撃命令ゴジラ対ガイガン, Hepburn: Chikyū Kōgeki Meirei Gojira Tai Gaigan, lit. Earth Destruction Directive: Godzilla vs. Gigan), is a 1972 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda, written by Shinichi Sekizawa, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. Distributed by Toho and produced under their effects-based subsidiary Toho-Eizo, it is the 12th film in the Godzilla franchise, and features the fictional monster characters Godzilla, Gigan, Anguirus, and King Ghidorah. The film stars Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Tomoko Umeda, and Minoru Takashima, alongside Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla, Kenpachiro Satsuma as Gigan, Koetsu Omiya as Anguirus, and Kanta Ina as King Ghidorah. It is the last film in which Godzilla was portrayed by Nakajima after playing the character since the original 1954 film; he subsequently retired from suit acting.

Godzilla vs. Gigan was released theatrically in Japan on March 12, 1972. It received a wide theatrical release in the United States in 1977 by Cinema Shares under the title Godzilla on Monster Island and was released in the UK by Miracle Films the same year as War of the Monsters.

The film was followed by the 13th film in the Godzilla franchise, Godzilla vs. Megalon, released on March 17, 1973.

^ Ryfle 1998, p. 173.
^ ^a ^b Edelson, Edward (1980). Great animals of the movies. Doubleday. p. 85. ISBN 9780385147286. By the late 1970s, Godzilla films settled down to a comfortable formula. Toho was making two films a year. Each cost in the neighborhood of $1.2 million and could be counted on to earn about $20 million.

[FOOTNOTERyfle1998173-1] Ryfle 1998, p. 173.

[Edelson-2] Edelson, Edward (1980). Great animals of the movies. Doubleday. p. 85. ISBN 9780385147286. By the late 1970s, Godzilla films settled down to a comfortable formula. Toho was making two films a year. Each cost in the neighborhood of $1.2 million and could be counted on to earn about $20 million.

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