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Rodan! The Flying Monster! (1957) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 7, 1957

Original Title:
Rodan! The Flying Monster!

Alternate Titles:
Die fliegenden Monster von Osaka
Rodan
Rodan!
Rodan, il monstro alato
Rodan, the Winged Monster
The Flying Monsters of Osaka

Genres:
Horror | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
Distributors Corporation of America (DCA)
Far East Laboratory
King Brothers Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
TOHO

Production Countries:
Japan | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 72

Overview from TheMovieDB

US dubbed and edited version of the Japanese film Rodan. A mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow co-workers and discovers prehistoric dragonfly nymphs emerging from the mines. As he heads deeper into the mines, he makes a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature.

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Assistant Editor:
Joyce Sage

Costume Design:
Teizô Toshimitsu
Eizo Kaimai

Director:
Ishirō Honda

Director of Photography:
Isamu Ashida

Editor:
Kôichi Iwashita

First Assistant Director:
Jun Fukuda

Lighting Technician:
Shigeru Mori

Modeling:
Teizô Toshimitsu
Eizo Kaimai

Music:
Paul Sawtell
Bert Shefter
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Akira Ifukube

Producer:
Maurice King
Herman King
Frank King
Tomoyuki Tanaka

Production Design:
Tatsuo Kita

Production Manager:
Teruo Maki

Screenplay:
Takeshi Kimura
Takeo Murata

Sculptor:
Teizô Toshimitsu

Sound Editor:
J. Frank O'Neill

Sound Effects:
Ichirô Minawa

Sound Effects Editor:
Anthony Carras
Ichirô Minawa

Sound Recordist:
Masanobu Miyazaki

Special Effects:
Eiji Tsuburaya
Masakatsu Asai
Sadamasa Arikawa
Hiroshi Mukoyama
Masao Shirota

Special Effects Assistant:
Masakatsu Asai
Tohl Narita
Yasuyuki Inoue
Yoshio Irie

Story:
Ken Kuronuma

Stunts:
Haruo Nakajima

Supervising Film Editor:
Robert S. Eisen

VFX Director of Photography:
Sadamasa Arikawa

Visual Effects:
Eiji Tsuburaya
Masakatsu Asai
Sadao Iizuka
Shuzaburo Araki

Visual Effects Art Director:
Akira Watanabe
Tohl Narita
Yasuyuki Inoue
Yoshio Irie

Visual Effects Camera:
Shuzaburo Araki

Visual Effects Director:
Eiji Tsuburaya
Masakatsu Asai

Visual Effects Production Manager:
Yasuaki Sakamoto

Writer:
David Duncan

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