Haruo Nakajima
is a 1965 "kaiju" film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It is the sixth film in the "Godzilla" franchise and Shōwa period. The film was a Japanese-American co-production; it was the second collaboration between Toho Studios and UPA. The film stars Akira Takarada, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Akira Kubo, and Yoshio Tsuchiya, with Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla, Masaki Shinohara as Rodan, and Shoichi Hirose as King Ghidorah. In the film, aliens plead with humanity to borrow Godzilla and Rodan to defeat King Ghidorah, only to betray the humans and unleash the monsters on the Earth.