Directed by Ishirô Honda Tom Montgomery Written by Shin'ichi Sekizawa   Paul Mason   Bruce Howard   John Beck   Willis H. O'Brien   Edgar Wallace   Cast Michael Keith ... Eric Carter Harry Holcombe ... Dr. Johnson James Yagi ... Yutaka Omura Tadao Takashima ... Osamu Sakurai Kenji Sahara ... Kazuo Fujita (as Keji Sahaka) Ichirô Arishima ... Mr. Tako Yû Fujiki ... Kinsaburo Furue Byron Morrow ... Dr. Arnold Johnson Jun Tazaki ... General Masami Shinzo Akihiko Hirata ... Dr. Shigezawa Mie Hama ... Fumiko Sakurai Yoshifumi Tajima ... Captain of Fujita's Ship - Japanese version only Akiko Wakabayashi ... Tamiye Akemi Negishi ... Chikiro's Mother (Dancing Girl) Yoshio Kosugi ... Farou Island Chief Ikio Sawamura ... Witch Doctor Someshô Matsumoto ... Dr. Onuki Kô Mishima ... Official Sachio Sakai ... Obayashi (Mr. Tako's assistant) Tatsuo Matsumura ... Dr. Makino Senkichi Ômura ... TTV Translator Konno Ren Yamamoto ... Commander of Operation Burial Haruya Katô ... Obayashi's assistant Yasuhisa Tsutsumi ... General's Aide #2 Yutaka Nakayama   Shin Ôtomo ... Captain of Vessel Toshihiko Furuta   Nadao Kirino ... General's Aide #1 Naoya Kusakawa   Mitsuo Tsuda   Haruko Tôgô   Takuzô Kumagai ... Police Executive (as Jirô Kumagai) Shirô Tsuchiya   Yasuzô Ogawa   Kenzô Tabu ... Dreary Newscaster Kazuo Suzuki   Haruya Sakamoto   Hiromi Mineoka   Hideo Shibuya ... Member of Press Corp (as Shinpei Mitsui) Terumi Oka   Ichirô Chiba   Mieko Kurenai   Harold Conway ... Scientist in Sub Douglas Fein ... Commander Roberts Osman Yusuf ... Submariner Shôichi Hirose ... King Kong Haruo Nakajima ... Godzilla / Faro Islander of the monitoring base Katsumi Tezuka ... Godzilla Bin Furuya ... JSDF correspondent Cliff Harrington ... Al the helicopter co-pilot (as Clifford Harrington) Shigeo Katô ... Pacific Pharmaceutical employee, newspaper reporter Akio Kusama ... Ground self-defense force executive Uncredited Cast Gary Collins ... Submariner Robert Dunham ... US Navy Pilot Victor Millan ... Rodrigo Infante Les Tremayne ... Commander Roberts / General Shinzo / Narrator (voice) Produced by John Beck   Tomoyuki Tanaka   Original Music by Akira Ifukube

Additional Info Premiere: August 11, 1962 Theatrical Release: June 26, 1963 DVD Release: May 15, 2001 Blu-ray Release: April 01, 2014 Countries: Distributor: The Criterion Collection Websites: Alternate Titles Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira Production Companies Toho John Beck RKO General Pictures Toho Universal Pictures International (UPI) Distributors Universal Pictures   (1963) (United States) (Universal-International) (English dubbed) (theatrical) Filmauro Home Video   (1965) (World-wide) (TV) Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)   (2005) (United States) (DVD) Universal Pictures International (UPI)   (1963) (World-wide) (theatrical) Universal Pictures   (1963) (World-wide) (theatrical) GoodTimes Home Video   (1987) (United States) (VHS) GoodTimes Home Video   (1989) (United States) (VHS) GoodTimes Home Video   (1996) (United States) (VHS) GoodTimes Home Video   (2001) (United States) (DVD) The Criterion Collection   (2019) (United States) (Blu-ray) Rating Stats Overall Rating 5.7 / 10 Our Rating 5.7 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 5.7 / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #4,448 / 20,875 Ratings Breakdown Perfect 1 total rating Almost Perfect 3 total ratings Average 1 total rating Crap 1 total rating Site Ranking #4,444 The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) #4,445 Piggy (2022) #4,446 Altered (2006) #4,447 A Christmas Carol (1999) #4,448 King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) #4,449 Mission: Impossible: Season 3 (1968) #4,450 Mission: Impossible: Season 2 (1967) #4,451 Mission: Impossible: Season 6 (1971) #4,452 Mission: Impossible: Season 4 (1969)