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Released
1967 · FILM

King Kong Escapes

The electronic monster Mechani-Kong boldly challenges the ruler of the South Seas, King Kong!!

Directed by
Runtime
104 min
Language
JA
ActionAdventureFamily

Synopsis

This film is an adaptation of the Rankin/Bass animated series *The King Kong Show*. In the story, King Kong is recruited by the villainous Dr. Who to extract Element X from a mine after the robot Mechani-Kong fails to complete the task. The situation escalates when King Kong and Mechani-Kong clash in a fierce battle on top of Tokyo Tower.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ryohei FujiiShot by Hajime KoizumiScored by Akira IfukubeDesigned by Takeo Kita

Box Office

1967 · Box office

Grossed $2.8M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$2.8M

Worldwide gross$2.8M

Also known as

  • King Kong – Frankensteins Sohnde
  • King Kong Escapesen
  • La Revanche de King Kongfr
  • King Kong - Il gigante della forestait

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