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The Earth is Mine: Original Beastly Creatures

Gappa, The Triphibian Monster

NOGUCHI Haruyasu / HASHIMOTO Hiroshi / HAYASHI Isao

Japan1967 84min Color Korean Premiere

Synopsis

An exploration team travel to a remote island where the natives worship a mysterious deity known as Gappa. After discovering an egg and bringing it back to Tokyo, the egg hatches and a strange bird-lizard like creature appears. Soon the hatchlings ginormous parents come looking for their baby, destroying everything in their path.

Program Note

A Japanese expedition goes to Obelisk Island, a remote island in the south, and discovers an egg from a “Gappa,” which the natives worship as a god. The team takes the baby Gappa, which looks like a winged lizard, to Tokyo. But the Gappa’s parents come to Tokyo and begin to re energy beams and destroy everything. Nikkatsu’s first kaiju film and its first premier in Korea.

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NOGUCHI Haruyasu

Gappa, The Triphibian Monster (1967)

HASHIMOTO Hiroshi

Gappa, The Triphibian Monster (1967)

HAYASHI Isao

Gappa, The Triphibian Monster (1967)

Credit

Producer: KOI Hideo

Screenplay: NAKANISHI Ryuzo, YAMAZAKI Iwao

Cinematographer: UEDA Muneo

Editor: TSUJII Masanori

Music: OMORI Seitaro

Production Design: KOIKE Kazumi

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