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1960s Monster Movies

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King Kong vs. Godzilla(1963)

NR
| 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 98 votes)

US version. The re-edited John Beck version of the film: released outside of Japan and restructured with new footage of American actors centering around a news report plot not present in the original. Eric Carter of United Nation News is joined by Dr. Arnold Johnson as a prehistoric monster emerges from hibernation while a pharmaceutical company seeks publicity with their own monster.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Mie Hama, Kenji Sahara, Haruo Nakajima, Ichirō Arishima, Shoichi Hirose, Akihiko Hirata, ...

King Kong Escapes(1967)

G
| 1h 44min | Action, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 39 votes)

An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Haruo Nakajima, Rhodes Reason, Hideyo Amamoto, Shoichi Hirose, ...

Invasion of Astro-Monster(1965)

G
| 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 75 votes)

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As Glenn investigates, he develops a romance with Miss Namikawa and uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Akira Takarada, Nick Adams, Haruo Nakajima, Jun Tazaki, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, ...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla(1964)

1h 29min | Drama, Action, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 110 votes)

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Akira Takarada, Kenji Sahara, Haruo Nakajima, Yū Fujiki, The Peanuts, Yuriko Hoshi, ...
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Mysterious Island(1961)

NR
| 1h 41min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 70 votes)

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .

Directed by Cy Endfield, Ray Harryhausen - With Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Percy Herbert, ...
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster(1964)

NR
| 1h 32min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 93 votes)

A meteor lands in Kurobe Valley as detective Shindo is assigned to protect Princess Salno from assassination. She emerges under the guise of a Venusian prophetess and catches the attention of journalist Naoko and Mothra's fairies by predicting a powerful space monster's arrival. The infant Mothra must convince Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their hatred of humanity or face the monster alone.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Haruo Nakajima, Akiko Wakabayashi, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, The Peanuts, Hiroshi Koizumi, ...
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Destroy All Monsters(1968)

G
| 1h 29min | Action, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 93 votes)

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Haruo Nakajima, Jun Tazaki, Andrew Hughes, Kenji Sahara, Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi, ...
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All Monsters Attack(1969)

G
| 1h 10min | Fantasy, Science Fiction, Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 67 votes)

Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed Gabara, his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Haruo Nakajima, Kenji Sahara, Hideyo Amamoto

The Day of the Triffids(1962)

NR
| 1h 33min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 75 votes)

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

Directed by Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis - With Howard Keel, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey, Mervyn Johns, Carole Ann Ford, ...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep(1966)

PG
| 1h 27min | Science Fiction, Action, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 70 votes)

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.

Directed by Jun Fukuda - With Haruo Nakajima, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Jun Tazaki, Kumi Mizuno, Hideyo Amamoto, ...

Yongary, Monster from the Deep(1967)

PG
| 1h 19min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.3/5 (with 32 votes)

Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.

Directed by Kim Ki-duk
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One Million Years B.C.(1966)

NR
| 1h 40min | Adventure, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 89 votes)

As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilisation.

Directed by Don Chaffey - With Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick, Richard James, ...
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Gamera vs. Guiron(1969)

1h 22min | Adventure, Science Fiction, Action, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 34 votes)

Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.

Directed by Noriaki Yuasa - With Eiji Funakoshi, Yūko Hamada

The Little Shop of Horrors(1960)

NR
| 1h 12min | Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 159 votes)

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.

Directed by Roger Corman - With Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson, Charles B. Griffith, ...
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Son of Godzilla(1967)

1h 26min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 76 votes)

Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.

Directed by Jun Fukuda - With Haruo Nakajima, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Kubo, Tadao Takashima, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenji Sahara, ...

The War of the Gargantuas(1966)

G
| 1h 28min | Action, Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 36 votes)

Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara, Kipp Hamilton, Jun Tazaki, Haruo Nakajima, ...

The Gorgon(1964)

NR
| 1h 23min | Horror, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 60 votes)

In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe, Patrick Troughton, ...

Matango(1963)

1h 29min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hideyo Amamoto, ...
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Atragon(1963)

1h 36min | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Jun Tazaki, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Tadao Takashima, Yū Fujiki, Ken Uehara, ...

The Green Slime(1968)

G
| 1h 30min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 38 votes)

A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku - With Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, Luciana Paluzzi, Robert Dunham
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Gamera vs. Barugon(1966)

1h 46min | Fantasy, Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Directed by Shigeo Tanaka - With Ichirō Sugai, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Kyōko Enami, Kōjirō Hongō, Shō Natsuki

Mothra(1961)

1h 41min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 67 votes)

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Frankie Sakai, Kyōko Kagawa, Hiroshi Koizumi, Ken Uehara, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, ...
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First Men in the Moon(1964)

NR
| 1h 43min | Adventure, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 52 votes)

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.

Directed by Nathan H. Juran, Ray Harryhausen - With Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Miles Malleson, Marne Maitland, Norman Bird, ...
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Dogora(1964)

1h 21min | Science Fiction, Crime
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Akiko Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Nobuo Nakamura, Robert Dunham, Susumu Fujita, Hideyo Amamoto, ...

The Phantom of the Opera(1962)

NR
| 1h 24min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 36 votes)

The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough, Thorley Walters, Patrick Troughton, ...
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Gamera vs. Gyaos(1967)

1h 26min | Action, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 31 votes)

Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.

Directed by Noriaki Yuasa - With Kōjirō Hongō, Kichijirō Ueda, Naoyuki Abe

Frankenstein Conquers the World(1965)

1h 30min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Haruo Nakajima, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, ...

Creature from the Haunted Sea(1961)

NR
| 1h 3min | Comedy, Horror
1.8/5 (with 17 votes)

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Directed by Roger Corman - With Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Roger Corman
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die(1962)

NR
| 1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.3/5 (with 51 votes)

Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

Directed by Joseph Green - With Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Eddie Carmel, Marilyn Hanold, Arny Freeman, Sammy Petrillo, ...
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster(1967)

1h 24min | Horror, Science Fiction, Action
2.6/5 (with 15 votes)

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.

Directed by Haruyasu Noguchi
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