King Kong vs. Godzilla

King Kong vs. Godzilla (Kingu Kongu tai Gojira) is a 1962 Japanese Science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishiro Honda with visual effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, and Mie Hama. It was the third installment in the Japanese series of films featuring the monster Godzilla. It was also the first of two Japanese made films featuring the King Kong character and also the first time both King Kong and Godzilla appeared on film in color and widescreen. Produced as part of Toho's 30th anniversary celebration, this film remains the most commercially succesful of all the Godzilla films to date.

The film was released theatrically in the United States in the summer of 1963 by Universal International.

Plot
A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

Cast
Tadao Takashima as Osamu Sakurai

Kenji Sahara as Kazuo Fujita

Yu Fujiki as Kinsaburo Furue

Ichiro Arishima as Mr. Tako

Mie Hama as Fumiko Sakurai

Jun Tazaki as General Shinzo

Akiko Wakabayashi as Tamiye

Akihiko Hirata as Prime Minister

Shoichi Hirose as King Kong

Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla