Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: MVD15414D
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 760137154143
- Street Date: 07/09/24
- PreBook Date: 06/04/24
- Label: Srs Cinema »
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Run Time: 100 mins
- Number of Discs: 0
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1962
- Region Code: 1
- Box Lot:
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: Japanese
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Shintaro Katsu
- Kojiro Hongo
- Takashi Shimura
- Director: Tokuzo Tanaka
Product Assets
The Whale God
A small Japanese village is obsessed with killing a monstrous whale that has decimated its hunting parties.
- List Price: $19.95
- Your Price: $19.95
- In Stock: -6
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A small Japanese village is obsessed with killing a monstrous whale that has decimated its hunting parties. The town's wealthiest man offers his land, position, and only daughter to the individual who can kill the demon whale. Shaki, a popular young man whose family has been massacred by the beast, steps forward vowing to slay the whale and avenge his relations, but his efforts are complicated by a brutish stranger to the village also intent on killing the monster and collecting on the promised riches. Based on Koichiro Uno's award-winning novel published the previous year and scripted by visionary writer-director Kaneto Shindo, this loose adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick captures the madness and danger of whaling and combines it with period drama and kaiju monster effects. RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN NORTH AMERICA!
Media
Bonus Materials
- -English subtitles
- -Trailer
- -Moby Dick vs Godzilla
- -Whales in Japanese Folklore
- -Kaiju United speaks
- -Kaiju Trailers
- -SRS Trailers
Sales Points
- Amazing score by Akira Ifukube, who did the music for the original 'Godzilla'
- Never before released in North America!
- Stars Takashi Shimura, the lead in Kurosawa's 'The Seven Samurai' and had a major role in the original 'Godzilla'
- A historic release!
