King Kong Escapes

King Kong Escapes
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	キングコングの逆襲
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Kingu Kongu no Gyakushū
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Written by	Takeshi Kimura
Story by	Arthur Rankin Jr.
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka Arthur Rankin Jr.
Starring	Rhodes Reason Linda Miller Mie Hama Akira Takarada
Cinematography	Hajime Koizumi
Edited by	Ryohei Fujii
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production companies	Toho[1] Rankin/Bass[1]
Distributed by	Toho (Japan) Universal Pictures (United States)
Release dates	July 22, 1967 (1967-07-22) (Japan) June 19, 1968 (1968-06-19) (United States)
Running time	104 minutes (Japan) 96 minutes (United States)
Countries	Japan United States
Languages	English Japanese
Box office	$1 million (US/Canada rentals) 1 million tickets (France)

King Kong Escapes (Japanese: キングコングの逆襲, Hepburn: Kingu Kongu no Gyakushū, lit. 'King Kong's Counterattack') is a 1967 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film was a Japanese–American co-production between Toho and Rankin/Bass,^[1] and stars Rhodes Reason, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with Haruo Nakajima as King Kong and Hiroshi Sekita as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus. The film is loosely based on Rankin/Bass' series The King Kong Show, and was the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong, until its 2021 collaboration with Warner Bros on Godzilla vs. Kong. King Kong Escapes was released in Japan on July 22, 1967, and released in the United States on June 19, 1968. It is the fourth entry in the King Kong franchise.