Killer Whale (film)

Killer Whale
Japanese name
Kanji鯨神
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKujira Gami
Directed byTokuzō Tanaka, Chikara Komatsubara (special effect)[1]
Screenplay byKaneto Shindo
Based onThe Whale God
by Kōichirō Uno
Produced byMasaichi Nagata
Starring
CinematographySetsuo Kobayashi, Toru Matoba, Hiroshi Ishida
Edited byTatsuji Nakashizu
Music byAkira Ifukube
Production
company
Release date
  • July 15, 1962 (1962-07-15) (Japan)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

The Whale God (鯨神, Kujira Gami), alternatively as Killer Whale,[2] is a 1962 Japanese tokusatsu (kaiju) film[3] produced by Daiei Film based on the 1961 Akutagawa Prize winning novel of the same name by Kōichirō Uno. It was presumably inspired by the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ 鯨神（くじらがみ） Archived 2024-07-11 at the Wayback Machine on allcinema
  2. ^ Killer Whale on FilmAffinity
  3. ^ John Squires, May 25, 2023, ‘The Whale God – Practical Killer Whale Kaiju Movie from 1962 Finally Being Unleashed in North America! Archived 2024-07-11 at the Wayback Machine, Bloody Disgusting
  4. ^ 鯨神 Archived 2024-07-11 at the Wayback Machine on Natalie
  5. ^ "鯨神（昭和37年）". Archived from the original on 2024-07-11. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  6. ^ "THE WHALE GOD Limited Edition Blu-ray Now Up For Preorder From SRS Cinema". SciFi Japan. Archived from the original on 2024-07-11. Retrieved 2024-07-11.