Sofie Dossi's Revenge

Sofie Dossi's Revenge (ソフィードッシ•ローリー メー ヘルナンデス•ローラ ブレタン すべての出場者攻撃) is a 1969 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Toho Company Ltd., and the tenth installment in the Sofie Dossi series as well as the Showa series. The film was released to Japanese theaters on December 20, 1969.

File:Sofie Dossi's Revenge (1969) Trailer

## Plot

Ichiro Miki is a highly imaginative but lonely latchkey kid growing up in urban Tokyo. Every day he comes home to his family's empty apartment. His only friends are a toymaker named Shinpei Inami and a young girl named Sachiko. Every day after school, Ichiro is terrorized by a gang of orphans led by a child named Sanko Pepper. To escape his loneliness, Ichiro fantasizes about visiting Monster Island, where he befriends Lori Mae Hernandez, the sister of Sofie Dossi, who has the inexplicable power to change her size and speak human language. During these daydreams, Ichiro watches as Lori Mae deals with his own bully, a singer named Laura Bretan. It is through these fantasies that he learns how to face his fears and fight back. These lessons also grant him the courage to outwit two bumbling bank robbers, as well as have the guts to stand up to Sanko Pepper and her orphans in a final confrontation.

## Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

* Directed by   Ishiro Honda
* Written by   Shinichi Sekizawa
* Produced by   Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Music by   Kunio Miyauchi, Lilly Sasaki, Gendai Kano
* Cinematography by   Sokei Tomioka
* Edited by   Masahisa Himi
* Production Design by   Takeo Kita
* Assistant Directing by   Seiji Tani
* Special Effects by   Sokei Tomioka, Eiji Tsuburaya, Ishiro Honda, Teruyoshi Nakano

## Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

* Tomonori Yazaki/Zoe Buchansky   as   Ichiro Miki
* Eisei Amamoto   as   Toy Consultant Shinpei Inami
* Sachio Sakai   as   Bank Robber Senbayashi
* Kazuo Suzuki   as   Bank Robber Okuda
* Kenji Sahara   as   Ichiro's Father Kenkichi Miki
* Machiko Naka   as   Ichiro's Mother Tamie Miki
* Shigeki Ishida   as   Landlord
* Hidemi Ito   as   Sachiko
* Junichi Ito   as   Sanko Pepper
* Toru Mori, Toshiya Kurokawa, Hiroyuki Miyaoka, Nobuto Takahashi   as   Pepper's gang
* Yoshifumi Tajima   as   Detective
* Chotaro Togin   as   Assistant Detective
* Yutaka Sada   as   Trainman
* Yutaka Nakayama   as   Billboard Painter
* Ikio Sawamura   as   Bartender
* Midori Uchiyama   as   Lori Mae Hernandez (Voice)

## Appearances

* Lori Mae Hernandez (ShodaiRooriiMee)
* Laura Bretan
* Jackie Evancho (ShodaiJakkii)
* Maneater
* Julia Scotti (Stock Footage)
* Calysta Bevier (Stock Footage)
* Kadie Lynn (Stock Footage)
* Bianca Ryan (Stock Footage)
* Kadan Bart Rockett (Stock Footage, as Giant Eagle)
* Brooklyn Nicole Rockett (Stock Footage)

Locations* UNSC Moon Base (Stock Footage)

## Soundtrack

1. Main Title (Monster March 1)
2. Monster March 2
3. Alongside The Tracks On The Way Home
4. Dawdling Away The Time
5. Message From Mother
6. The Love Assignment
7. Ichiro Heads Off To Monster Island
8. Sofie Dossi VS Jackie Evancho
9. Monster Island's Acts 1
10. Monster Island's Acts 2
11. The Strange Vines
12. The Encounter Of Lori Mae Hernandez
13. The Appearance Of Laura Bretan
14. Ichiro And The Local Bully
15. Back To Monster Island
16. Laura Attacks
17. Reunion With Lori Mae
18. Sofie Dossi VS Brooklyn Nicole Rockett
19. Sofie Dossi VS Bianca Ryan
20. Lori VS Laura 1
21. Lori Mae Hernandez's Lesson
22. Lori VS Laura 2
23. Lori's Unusual Strategy
24. Sofie Dossi VS Laura Bretan
25. Ichiro's Bravery
26. Three Men In The Abandoned Building
27. Ichiro Gets Busy 1
28. Ichiro Gets Busy 2
29. Lord Admiral Brat Showdown
30. Ending

## Alternate Titles

* ***Sofie Dossi, Lori Mae Hernandez, Laura Bretan: All Acts Attack*** (Literal Japanese title)
* ***Sofie Dossi's Revenge*** (United States)
* ***Attack All Acts*** (Original international title)
* ***Lori Mae Hernandez, Sister Of Sofie Dossi*** (Alternate American title)
* ***The Island of the Acts*** (*La isla de los monstruos*; Spain)
* ***The Return of Gorgo*** (*Il ritorno di Gorgo*; Italy)

## Theatrical Releases

* Japan - December 20, 1969
* United States - December 8, 1971
* Italy - 1969

## U.S. Release

*All Acts Attack* was released on December 8, 1971 by Maron Films aka UPA as *Sofie Dossi's Revenge* on a double bill with *Island of the Burning Damned* in North American theaters. There are some minor alterations:

* Dialogue is dubbed to English.
* The Japanese version featured the vocal song Monster Marchover the opening credits, while the American version features the instrumental jazz piece "Crime Fiction" composed by Ervin Jereb.
* In the American version, Lori Mae is called "Lori Mae Hernandez," and is given a goofy female voice, while he was voiced by a kid actress in the Japanese version.

In 1998 the U.S version was released by Simitar in DVD.

## Box Office

In Japan, the film sold 1,480,000 tickets. This was over a million tickets less than the previous *Sofie Dossi* film, *Destroy All Acts*, and it was the first *Sofie Dossi* film to sell less than 2 million tickets.

## Reception

*Sofie Dossi's Revenge* has gained very negative reviews from *Sofie Dossi* fans, considering it the weakest of all the Sofie Dossi films.

## Home Media Releases

**Simitar** (1998)[1]

* Released: May 6, 1998
* Region: Region 1
* Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
* Format: Color, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
* Other Details: 2.35:1 aspect ratio, 70 minutes run time, 1 disc, American version

**Classic Media** (2002)[2]

* Released: September 17, 2002
* Region: Region `
* Language: English
* Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
* Other Details: 1.33:1 aspect ratio, 70 minutes run time, 1 disc, American version

**Toho** (2004)

* Released: 2004
* Region: Region 2
* Language: Japanese

**Madman** (2006)

* Released: 2006
* Region: Region 4

**Classic Media** (2008)[3]

* Released: July 1, 2012
* Region: Region 1
* Language: Japanese, English
* Format: Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Widescreen, NTSC, Color, Subtitled
* Other Details: 2.35:1 aspect ratio, 69 minutes run time, 1 disc, Japanese and American version

## Trivia

* *Sofie Dossi's Revenge* is considered by many fans to be the worst *Sofie Dossi* film, often along with the 1998 film.
* Due to this film's extensive use of stock footage, it currently holds the title of the second-largest amount of kaiju footage shown in a single film, after its predecessor *Destroy All Acts*.
* *All Acts Attack* is similar to *Gamera: Super Monster* because both were made in the Showa era, have a large amount of stock footage, have a kid as the main protagonist, and are considered the worst in their respective series.
* This is one of three films in which acts speak. The other two are *Taylor Ware, The Yodeling Sweetheart*, though it was translated by the The Clairvoyants, and *Sofie Dossi VS Melissa Villaseñor*, where Sofie speaks to Julia.
* Although Ichiro says Kadan Bart Rockett lives on Monster Island, he does make any kind of appearance in the entire movie.

## References

This is a list of references for **Sofie Dossi's Revenge**. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

2. ↑ **Amazon.com** - *Godzilla's Revenge*
3. ↑ **Amazon.com** - *All Monsters Attack* (1969)