Frankenstein Conquers the World

Frankestein vs. Baragon, also known as, Frankestein Conquers the World is a 1965/6 kajiu film directed by Ishirō Honda.

Frankenstein vs. Baragon
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Screenplay by	Takeshi Kimura
Story by	Reuben Bercovitch Jerry Sohl
Starring	Nick Adams Kumi Mizuno Tadao Takashima
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Cinematography	Hajime Koizumi Sadamasa Arikawa
Edited by	Ryohei Fujii
Production company	Toho Co., Ltd Henry G. Saperstein Enterprises
Distributed by	Toho (Japan) American International Pictures (United States)
Release date	August 8, 1965 (1965-08-08) (Japan) July 8, 1966 (1966-07-08) (United States)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Japan United States
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥93,000,000 (equivalent to ¥NaN in 2019) (Japan)

History

The previous Kaijuega of Toho's conception was growing despondent of the seriousness of a 1954 "Gojira" in growing favor of the sillier conventions of contemporary television series like Ultraman. Toho Company had decided to utilize a classic creation of Western literature, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. By this point, Frankenstein was largely realized within filmography from Universal Pictures' adaptation. Toho's attempt to bring the Frankenstein creation to life carries a humorous tone, typical of the originators of kaiju media. In their portrayal, Frankenstein's monster not only exists in Japan but is also scaled to the proportions of a Godzilla-sized creature. It faces off against a worldly competitor, the monster Baragon. While Baragon later appears in other Kaijuega films, the sizeable Frankenstein Monster is absent.