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Edo ni arawareta Kingu-Kongu
director: Sôya Kumagai
year: 1938
country: Japan
alternative titles: King Kong Appears in Edo
Japanese period monster film apparently consisting of two parts, made in 1938, in which King Kong attacks Tokyo, formerly known as Edo.
Andreas Huber, 12.01.2009
Cast:
Ryûtarô Hibiki
Reizaburô Ichikawa
Ginbei Inoue
Dô Jitsukawa
Keisuke Matsudaira
Eizaburô Matsumoto
Reiko Mishima
Shôjirô Ogata
Fuminori Ohashi
Shôtarô Shiba
Shin Taga
Noboru Takashima
Keinosuke Yashiro
Kikutaro Yoshii

Company:
Zenshô Kinema
Zenkatsu

Format:
35 mm
1.37:1
black and white
Andreas Huber, 12.01.2009
Source notes
Andreas Huber, 12.01.2009
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More alternate titles:
Edo ni arawareta Kingu-Kongu: Henge no maki (Part I)
Edo ni arawareta Kingu-Kongu: Ôgon no maki (Part II)
Kingu-Kongu
King Kong

Prints presumed lost during the bombing of Japan in World War II.

More information:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0157898/
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0953375/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_Appears_in_Edo
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1938/bn005620.htm
Andreas Huber, 12.01.2009
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