King Kong Escapes

***King Kong Escapes*** is a 1967 Japanese-American science-fiction fantasy action spy kaiju film. It was produced by Toho and Rankin/Bass Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures in 1968. It is the fourth _King Kong_ movie and the second Japanese _King Kong_ movie. This film's special effects were done by Eiji Tsuburaya. It features a giant ape named _Kong._ A man from Mondo Island tries to stop the terrorist leader Dr. Who, who has been creating a giant robot called _Mechani-Kong_ or _Robot Kong_ in the English-dub, a 20-meter ape robot.

## Plot

In 1966, at an arctic headquarters, Dr. Who creates a giant robotic gorilla, a recreation of King Kong. This robot, called Mechani-Kong, is for the purpose of digging for a mysterious and highly radioactive substance known as Element X, only found in the North Pole. then in Mondo Island a group of United Nations submarine groups, then Susan caught by an Gorosaurus who tries to eat her, Kong awakes to fights Gorosaurus to death. Dr. Who arrives Mondo Island to hunt Kong to use as a prisoner, those helicopters launched an gassed bomb to unconscious the ape and carried by an larger ship. Kong watches an Mechani-Kong as a real aside, then hypnotized Kong to dig an Element X, and escaped. Kong goes on a rampage to Tokyo, an JSDF tanks surrounded the ape, an Mechani-Kong upsets catches Susan kidnapped, running the robot follows to the Tokyo Tower. Kong holds Mechani-Kong's leg and dropping Susan and hold her onto the place, Mechani-Kong steps an tower and electrocutes the giant robot ape, Mechani-Kong fell off the tower and crashes to metal pieces. Kong attacked Who inside the giant ship, wrecked and destroyed in the entire sea, Kong victoriously wins and leaving swimmingly Kong went, Japan to Mondo Island instead.

## Cast

- Rhodes Reason as Carl Nelson
- Linda Miller as Susan Watson
- Akira Takarada as Jiro
- Haruo Nakajima as King Kong
- Hideyo Amamoto as Dr. Satoshi Who
- Mie Hama as Madame X/Madame Aran X
- Yu Sekida as Mechani-Kong/Gorosaurus
- Yoshifumi Tajima - Chief
- Shoichi Hirose, Toru Ibuki, Nadao Kirino, Susumu Kurobe, Sachio Sakai, Kazuo Suzuki and Yoshifumi Tajima - Dr. Who's Henchmen
- Andrew Hughes - United Nations journalist
- Ryūji Kita - Police inspector
- Osman Yusuf - Submariner
- Yasuhisa Tsutsumi - General
- Masaaki Tachibana - Self-Defense Force soldier
- Ikio Sawamura - Mondo Islander
- Nadao Kirino - Dr. Who's assistant
- Seishiro Kuno, Haruya Sakamoto, Masaaki Tachibana - JSDF soldiers
- Kamayuki Tsubono - Security headquarters guard
- Ryu Kuze - Killer
In the American version of the film, voices include, Paul Frees, Julie Bennett, Hal Smith, and Pat Woodell.

## Release

The film was released in Japan in July 22, 1967 by Toho, and released to the United States in June 19, 1968 by Universal Pictures and Rankin/Bass Productions.

## Infobox (film)

- **name**: King Kong Escapes
- **director**: Ishirō Honda
- **producer**: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Arthur Rankin Jr.
- **writer**: Kaoru Mabuchi
Willis O'Brien (original idea)
- **story**: Arthur Rankin Jr.
- **starring**: Rhodes Reason
Linda Miller
Mie Hama
Akira Takarada
Mie Hama
Hideyo Amamoto
Haruo Nakajima
Yu Sekida
- **music**: Akira Ifukube
- **cinematography**: Hajime Koizumi
- **studio**: Toho Company, Ltd.
Rankin/Bass Productions
- **distributor**: Toho (Japan)
 Universal Pictures (United States)
- **released**: **Japan: **
July 22, 1967
**United States: **
June 19, 1968
- **runtime**: 104 minutes (Japanese)
96 minutes (USA)
- **country**: Japan
United States
- **language**: Japanese
English