The Whale God
| Killer Whale | |||||
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| Kanji | 鯨神 | ||||
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| Directed by | Tokuzō Tanaka, Chikara Komatsubara (special effect) | ||||
| Screenplay by | Kaneto Shindo | ||||
| Based on | The Whale God by Kōichirō Uno | ||||
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata | ||||
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| Cinematography | Setsuo Kobayashi (jp), Toru Matoba (jp), Hiroshi Ishida | ||||
| Edited by | Tatsuji Nakashizu | ||||
| Music by | Akira Ifukube | ||||
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Running time | 100 minutes | ||||
| Country | Japan | ||||
| Language | Japanese | ||||
The Whale God (鯨神, Kujira Gami), alternatively as Killer Whale, is a 1962 Japanese tokusatsu (kaiju) film produced by Daiei Film based on the 1961 Akutagawa Prize winning novel of the same name by Kōichirō Uno. It was presumably inspired by the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.