Haruo Nakajima
is a 1967 science fiction "kaiju" film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. An international co-production of Japan and the United States, it stars Rhodes Reason, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with Haruo Nakajima as King Kong and Hiroshi Sekita as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus. The film is a loose adaptation of the Rankin/Bass Productions series, "The King Kong Show" and was the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong. "King Kong Escapes" was released in Japan on July 22, 1967 and released in the United States on June 19, 1968.