El monstruo que amenaza el mundo

El monstruo que amenaza el mundo (1967)

大巨獣ガッパ

Una expedición al océano Pacífico aterriza en una isla tropical donde los nativos adoran a una deidad misteriosa llamada Gappa. Un terremoto abre una caverna subterránea y un reptil que acaba de nacer es descubierto en su interior. Los indígenas advierten a los extranjeros para que no toquen al animal, sin embargo desoyen las indicaciones y se lo llevan de regreso a un zoológico en Japón. Poco después, aparecen dos monstruos gigantes, padres del animal, atacando furiosamente a la cuiudad de Tokio.

Fecha de estreno
1967-04-22
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (52)
Duración
1 h 35 min
Géneros
Terror, Ciencia ficción, Acción
Director
野口晴康

Reparto

Curiosidades

Gappa: The Triphibian Monster is a 1967 Japanese kaiju film directed by Haruyasu Noguchi. The film is about a group of Japanese reporters who discover an infant monster called a Gappa on Obelisk Island. The reporters cage the creature and take it to Japan where it becomes a media attraction. This angers the natives of the island and Gappa's full-grown parents, who head toward Japan to find their child. Its plot virtually duplicates that of the 1961 British film Gorgo.

Production

Although by different companies, Gappa: The Triphibian Monster and The X from Outer Space by Shochiku were produced and released simultaneously. Both shared similarities in production systems, being produced by the company Japan Tokusatsu Production, involved Eiji Tsuburaya's teams, and being among non-Daiei kaiju works that received tax-based governmental loans, as a result of Masaichi Nagata's attempt to export Japanese films for the purpose of…

The year 1967 was the height of Japan's “Kaiju Boom” and many Japanese film studios were doing their own monster film. Nikkatsu jumped onboard and decided to do their own film. Several ideas were hatched but did not bear fruit. There was Giant Monster Gigant (大怪獣ギガント, Daikaiju Giganto): A giant alien lifeform resembling a spider arrives on Earth and causes destruction.

In an interview with the film's screenplay writers, Gen Yamazaki and Ryuzo Nakanishi, they explained that the film got government financing of about 500,000,000 yen (about $1.4 million), which was ten times the average of a Nikkatsu film. Eisei Koi, who was the producer of the film was classmates with politicians in the Diet and used his political power to get the money.

Principal photography on Gappa lasted for about 40 days, twice the time that director Haruyasu Noguchi usually took to shoot a film.

The monster suits and effects in the film were created by Akira Watanabe, a former employee of Toho who has contributed in the Godzilla franchise, Ultra Q, and other kaiju and tokusatsu productions.

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