Poster

Kaitei Gunkan

Year

1963

Genre

Adventure, Sci-Fi

Country

Japan

Director

Ishirô Honda

Writer

Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Shunro Oshikawa

Actors

Tadao Takashima, Yôko Fujiyama, Yû Fujiki, Ken Uehara, Jun Tazaki, Kenji Sahara, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yoshifumi Tajima, Akihiko Hirata, Hideyo Amamoto, Tetsuko Kobayashi, Hisaya Itô, Minoru Takada, Susumu Fujita, Ikio Sawamura

Description

Several strange occurrences are taking place all over the world including the disappearance of two engineers. Also, former admiral Kosumi is nearly kidnapped along with his secretary, and goddaughter, Makoto Jinguji. The kidnap attempt is thwarted by photographer Susumu Hatanaka and his assistant Yoshito Nishibe. It is later revealed the Mu Empire, which disappeared 12,000 years earlier, are responsible for all the occurrences and are planning to invade the surface world to reclaim their supposed colonies. Also, the Muans manage to steal the I-403 submarine from embittered Captain Jinguji, Makoto's father, and in the process steal the plans for and even greater sub, Atragon (aka Gotengo). As the attacks by the Muans increase the world anxiously asks Jinguji for his help, even his daughter Makoto makes an impassioned plea for him to join the fight against Mu. Unfortunately, Jinguji is still bitter about the defeat of Japan in World War II and won't help. However, the fight becomes personal when Makoto and Susumu, with whom she has fallen in love, are captured by the Muans. Soon Jinguji unleashes his ultimate weapon against the Muans and their giant snakelike guardian Manda.

Comments

Duration

96 minutes (at 23.97 frames per second)

Filesize

701 MB

Video

XviD - resolution: 720x304

Audio