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Released
1963 · FILM

King Kong vs. Godzilla

“The Terrifying Battle Between The Mightiest Monsters of All Time!”

Directed by
Ishiro Honda, Tom Montgomery
Written by
Shin Ichi Sekizawa, Paul Mason
Runtime
96 min
ActionAdventureComedy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A pharmaceutical company with questionable ethics travels to a secluded tropical island in an attempt to capture King Kong for use in their advertising. However, their plan backfires when the massive ape attacks an unaware village and a giant octopus.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Ishiro HondaShot by Hajime KoizumiScored by Akira IfukubeDesigned by Teruaki Abe

Box Office

1963 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 225× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.7M

Budget$12K
Worldwide gross$2.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Rückkehr des King Kongde
  • King Kong vs. Godzillaen
  • King Kong contre Godzillafr
  • Il trionfo di King Kongit

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