King Kong Escapes
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| Kanji | キングコングの逆襲 | ||||
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda | ||||
| Written by | Takeshi Kimura | ||||
| Story by | Arthur Rankin Jr. | ||||
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka Arthur Rankin Jr. | ||||
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| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi | ||||
| Edited by | Ryohei Fujii | ||||
| Music by | Akira Ifukube | ||||
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| Distributed by | Toho (Japan) Universal Pictures (United States) | ||||
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Running time | 104 minutes (Japan) 96 minutes (United States) | ||||
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| Languages | English Japanese | ||||
| Box office | $1 million (US/Canada rentals) 1 million tickets (France) | ||||
King Kong Escapes (Japanese: キングコングの逆襲, Hepburn: Kingu Kongu no Gyakushū, lit. 'King Kong's Counterattack') is a 1967 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film was a Japanese–American co-production between Toho and Rankin/Bass, and stars Rhodes Reason, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with Haruo Nakajima as King Kong and Hiroshi Sekita as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus. The film is loosely based on Toei Animation's and Rankin/Bass' anime series The King Kong Show, and was the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong, until its collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures on Godzilla vs. Kong (2021).
King Kong Escapes (which is the fourth entry of the King Kong franchise) was released in Japan by Toho on July 22, 1967, and released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 19, 1968 as Universal's second King Kong film. 37 years later, it was followed by the second remake of the 1933 film as the third and final King Kong film by Universal on December 14, 2005.