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***Daigoro vs. Goliath***  (怪獣大奮戦　ダイゴロウ対ゴリアス,   *Kaijū funsen–Daigorō tai Goriasu*?, Lit. The Great Desperate Monster Battle: Daigoro vs. Goliath) is a 1972 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film. The film was produced as a collaboration between Tsuburaya Productions and Toho Company Ltd. the film stars Tomonori Yazaki. a draft for the film features the Two Monsters Mating.

## Plot

Daigoro is a monster who was orphaned after the military used intercontinental missiles to kill his mother while she tried to protect him. Only one man stood against that decision. He pitied the infant, and took it as his own and raised him in Japan. But Daigoro grew too large and too expensive to feed. The man made Daigoro an icon for a business. Elsewhere Goliath, a monster who had been trapped in an asteroid for a long time, went to Earth and battled Daigoro. Goliath eventually defeated Daigoro by striking him with lightning from his horn. Goliath then left to pillage the world, leaving Daigoro to die. Daigoro recovered and practiced daily for his next battle against Goliath. After an intense fight, Daigoro breathed his fire ray and managed to defeat Goliath. The humans then grabbed Goliath while he was still weak and strapped him to a rocket and launched him into space.

## Cast

* Onizawa Kumagoro: Shinsuke Minami
* Saito (zookeeper): Kazuya Kosaka
* Suzuki et al .: Akiji Kobayashi
* Hachigoro: Hachiro Misumi
* Doctor: Jun Hamamura
* Middle-aged man: Hideo Sunazuka
* Yoshiko's matchmaking partner: Masao Komatsu
* TV caster: Kiyoshi Hitomi
* Yoshiko: Fusako Amachi
* Umeko Onizawa: Reiko Hitomi
* Woman: Miyako Tasaka
* Saito's girlfriend: Chizuru Tashiro
* Bar father: Daisuke Wakamiya
* Father: Genpei Imamura
* Keeper: Hisao Sasaki
* Assistant: Shigeru Tsuji
* Keepers: Hiroshi Ikaida, Tsutomu Yamadera
* Keeper Boss: Katsumi Ishiyama
* Taro: Yuki Yazaki
* Children: Koichi Murata, Shigeyuki Kanai, Stanley Ilmaty, Kyoko Kawai, Keiko Ito
* Ojisan (inventor): Hiroshi Inuzuka
* Daigorou: Tetsuo Yamamura
* Goliath: Hisashi Kato

## Staff

* Production: Hajime Tsuburaya
* Screenplay: Kitao Chizuka
* Music: Toru Fuyuki
* Photo: Sozo Inagaki
* Art: Noriyoshi Ikeya
* Lighting: Mori Arai
* Recording: Tokyo Movie Video Department
* Sound adjustment: Noboru Nishio
* Optical photography: Michihisa Miyashige, Yukio Shigeta, Tsukasa Nakamura, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Kaneo Kimura, Minoru Kurei, Bunzo Hyodo
* Assistant Director: Masataka Yamamoto
* Edited by: Takao Shirae
* Visual effect: Sadao Iizuka
* Laboratory: Tokyo Laboratory[1]
* Producer: Kazumi Kasai
* Special technology: Atsushi Oki , Minoru Nakano
* Director: Toshihiro Iijima

### Uncredited

* Design for monster examination: Kako Yonetani
* Steel: Yoshiaki Matsubara
* Production: Kazuho Mitsuta
* Trailer Music: Isao Tomita

## Titles

* Great Desperate Monster Battle: Daigoro vs. Goliath (Literal Japanese Title)
* The Monsters' Desperate Battle: Daigoro vs. Goliath (Alternate Translation)

## Production

### Early Draft

***Godzilla vs. Redmoon***  (ゴジラ・レッドムーン・エラブス・ハーフン 怪獣番外地,   *Gojira Reddomūn Erabusu Hāfun: Kaijū Bangaichi*?, lit. *Godzilla, Redmoon, Erabus, Hafun: Unaddressed Monster Land*) Was one of the first drafts for the film, it would have been a collaboration between Toho Studios and Tsuburaya Productions. The production staff, under the direction of Kazuo Sakawa at Tsuburaya Productions, would have reportedly provided the suits for the new monsters, while Toho would have loaned the MusukoGoji suit from *Son of Godzilla* for the film. When plans for the film fell through, its script was heavily altered and repackaged into the film *Daigoro vs. Goliath*, which was also a collaborative film, produced by Tsuburaya and distributed by Toho.

## Release

### U.S. release

*Daigoro vs. Goliath* has never received an official release in any form in the United States. However, the fansub group Hi no Tori translated the film into English in 2011.

## Manga edition

"Monster Daigorou"
[2]Serialized in Shogakukan's learning magazine
A daily comedy that anthropomorphizes Daigorou  .
* First grade elementary school July 1972-October issue serialized

Drawing: Hisao Hayashi , Composition: Shigemitsu Taguchi
* Second grade elementary school July 1972 issue-March 1973 issue serialized

Drawing: Aoni Yamane
* Third grade elementary school July 1972 issue-March 1974 issue serialized

Drawing: Aoni Yamane
* Fourth grader

July 1972 issue-March 1973 issue serialized
Drawing: Shigeru Fujita
April 1974-June issue serialized
Drawing: Aoni Yamane
* 5th grade elementary school April 1972 issue-March 1973 issue serialized

Drawing: Hideo Shinoda
* Sixth grade elementary school April 1972 issue-March 1973 issue serialized

Drawing: Rentaro Itai , Composition: Keisuke Fujikawa
## DVD

* The DVD was released on September 30, 2005.
* It was re-released as a Toho DVD masterpiece selection on August 19, 2015.

## References

This is a list of references for **Daigoro vs. Goliath**. 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]

1. ↑ http://jmdb.ne.jp/1972/cv003740.htm
2. ↑ Toho co., ltd
3. ↑ Godzilla vs. Redmoon on Gojipedia.
4. ↑ "Tsuburaya Productions" Volume One Takeshobe, 2013

## Gallery

*Main article: Daigoro vs. Goliath/Gallery.*