 godzilla vs. the sea monster (also known as ebirah, horror of the deep and released in japan as  is a 1966 japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by toho. directed by jun fukuda with special effects by sadamasa arikawa (supervised by eiji tsuburaya),ragone, august. eiji tsuburaya: master of monsters san francisco, california: chronicle books. 2007. pg.145 the film starred akira takarada, akihiko hirata, and eisei amamoto. the seventh film in the godzilla series, this was the first of two island-themed adventure films starring godzilla. the film was released direct to television in the united states in 1967 by the walter reade organization as godzilla versus the sea monster. ==plot== after yata (toru ibuki) is lost at sea, his brother ryota (toru watanabe) steals a yacht with his two friends and a bank robber, the crew runs afoul of the giant lobster ebirah, and washes up on the shore of an island, where a terrorist organization manufactures heavy water for their purposes, as well as a chemical that keeps ebirah at bay. the organization, known as the red bamboo, has enslaved natives from infant island to help them, but the natives hope to awaken mothra (now a full-grown moth metamorphosed from the larva that appeared in ghidorah, the three-headed monster) to rescue them. in their efforts to avoid capture, ryota and his friends, aided by a beautiful native girl, stumble across godzilla sleeping within a cliffside cavern. the group devises a plan to defeat the red bamboo and escape from the island. in the process, they wake godzilla using a lightning rod. godzilla fights ebirah, but the giant crustacean escapes. godzilla is then attacked by a giant condor and a squadron of red bamboo fighter jets, but destroys them. the humans retrieve the missing yata, free the enslaved natives and godzilla begins to destroy the base. godzilla smashes a tower that has a self-destruct button that makes the island unstable. godzilla fights ebirah and defeats it, ripping off both ebir
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