304 - GAMERA VS. BARUGON
(USA video release; 4/17/1966; Japan; NR; 101m)

a.k.a. GAMERA VERSUS BARUGON (variation)
a.k.a. DAI KAIJU KETO--GAMERA TAI BARUGON (original/Japan)
a.k.a. GAMERA TAI BARUGON
a.k.a. GREAT MONSTER BATTLE: GAMERA VS. BARUGON
a.k.a. WAR OF THE MONSTERS (USA release)
a.k.a. GAMERA VS. BARAGON (typo)
co-billed with MAJIN, MONSTER OF TERROR

Plot: In Gamera's second movie, a huge opal is really a monster's egg which hatches into a lizard-dog which Gamera fights...very briefly.

Exec: Masaichi Nagata*
(302-Gamera; 308-Gamera Vs. Gaos;
312-Gamera Vs. Guiron; 316-Gamera Vs. Zigra; Gamera Vs. Monster X)
Prod/USA: Sandy Frank
(*302/308/312/316; 306-Time of the Apes; 310-Fugitive Alien; 314-Mighty Jack;
318-Star Force; K21-Legend of the Dinosaur;
K11-Humanoid Woman)
Dir: Shigeo Tanaka (The Great Wall)
Pl: Yonejiro Saito (prod/302; Passion)
Scr: Fumi Takahashi (302/308/312/316; Gamera Vs. Monster X)
Scr: Nizo Takahashi
Cin: Michio Takahashi (Golden Demon; The Great Wall)
Ed: Tatsuji Nakashizu (302/308)
SFX: Noriyaki Yuasa (dir/*302/312/316)
SFX Cos: Kazufumi Fujii (sfx/308/312/316)
SFX Cos/Barugon: Masao Yagi (308)
Score: Chuji Kinoshita (The Panda and the Magic Serpent)

Super Turtle / Gamera (*302/308/312/316; Gamera Vs. Viras)
dog-lizard monster / Barugon*
Keisuke Hirata / Kojiro Hongo (308; Gamera Vs. Viras)
Onodera / Koji Fujiyama (302/308/316)
Professor Amano / Yoshiro Kitahara (302/308; Buddha)
Karen / Kyoko Enami (308; Kaze To Kumo Totoride)
Ichiro Hirata / Akira Natsuki (Darkside Blues)
Kawajiri / Yuzo Hayakawa (Gamera, Super Monster)
Dr. Matsushita / Ichiro Sugai (Odd Obsession; Sansho the Baliff)

Trivia: Born in 1906, MASAICHI NAGATA started producing films in Japan in 1924. In 1942, he formed the Daiei Production Company and became its president in 1947. The most famous of the films which he produced is 1950's Rashomon. Daiei Studios decided to produce the Gamera film series in response to their competitor Toho's successful Godzilla series. In 1971, Nagata purchased the Lotto Orions, a professional baseball team.

Daiei Studios based their monster BARUGON on rival Toho's BARAGON, which appeared in Frankenstein Conquers the World, released just a year earlier. The two monsters are somewhat similar looking, but they are not the same monster.

For the lyrics and their translation to the GAMERA THEME SONGS, see 312-GAMERA VS. GUIRON.

For more about Gamera, check out Gowen's Gamera Page.

Last Updated: 6/21/1999