In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Stars: Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada, Derick Shimatsu, Koreya Senda, Kōzō Nomura
Crew: Eiji Tsuburaya (Visual Effects), Jerry A. Baerwitz (Director), Koji Kajita (Assistant Director), Robert O'Dell (Costumer), Peter Zinner (Music Editor), Leonard Kunody (Assistant Director)
Country: United States of America, Japan
Language: English, 日本語
Studio: Cory Film Corporation, Dallas Production Inc., Crown International Pictures, TOHO
Runtime: 70 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 07, 1962
IMDb: 6.8
Keywords:monster, giant monster, alternate version, kaiju, giant, monster movie, daikaiju, tokusatsu
