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Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
Screenplay by | Shinichi Sekizawa[1] |
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Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
Starring | Jun Tazaki Tadao Takashima Yōko Fujiyama Yū Fujiki |
Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
Music by | Akira Ifukube |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 94 minutes[2] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥175 million[3] |
Atragon (海底軍艦, Kaitei Gunkan, lit. 'The Undersea Warship') is a 1963 Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho, it is based on The Undersea Warship: A Fantastic Tale of Island Adventure by Shunrō Oshikawa and The Undersea Kingdom by Shigeru Komatsuzaki. The film stars Jun Tazaki, Tadao Takashima, Yōko Fujiyama, Yū Fujiki, and Ken Uehara.
The film was released in Japan on December 22, 1963, and in the United States in 1965 via American International Pictures. A two-episode anime OVA titled Super Atragon, based on the same novels, was produced by Phoenix Entertainment in 1995.