King Kong Appears in Edo (1938-Lost film)

== King Kong Appears in Edo (1938) ==
King Kong Appears in Edo (江戸に現れたキングコング, Edo ni Arawareta Kingu Kongu) was a 1938 Japanese two-part silent period piece drama film set during the Edo period and produced by Zenshō Cinema. It is now considered to be a lost film.
== Plot. ==
One night, Chinami (Reiko Mishima), the daughter of Hyoue Toba (Reizaburo Ichikawa), is mysteriously kidnapped. Hyoue offers a large reward for his daughter's rescue. Yuzuru Kawasaki (Noboru Takashima) and various other men employed by Hyoue set about searching for Chinami. However one of Hyoue's men, Magonojyō Gō (Eizaburo Matsumoto), does not partake in the search, because he was the one who had Chinami kidnapped. Magonojyō's father Senbei has a trained pet ape named "King Kong" (Ryūnosuke Kabayama) and Magonojyō used this creature to perform the kidnapping. Magonojyō has a score to settle with Hyoue because he had forced Senbei to counterfeit coins. When Senbei refused to do so, he was imprisoned by Hyoue and eventually killed. This is why Magonojyō disguised his identity and went to work for Hyoue, to get close to him in order to get revenge. Magonojyō eventually corners Hyoue and threatens him with the ape. He offers to give him the whereabouts of Chinami in exchange for the reward money. The ape then takes Hyoue to Magonojyō's secret cellar as a prisoner. The ape then goes berserk and kills Hyoue but is then fatally wounded by Hyoue's men. While all this is happening, Magonojyō leaves Edo with the reward money.
== Remaining footage. ==
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== Rating ==
PG:7+
== Runtime ==
Unknown but thought to be somewhere between 10-40 mins.
Category:Lost film
Category:Kaiju film
Category:Silent film
Category:Kaiju