Around the same time, Tsuburaya Productions used the prop to depict Sudar in episode 23 of Ultra Q, accompanied by stock footage from King Kong vs. More full-sized tentacles allowed it to menace the sailors. The prop had lights installed in its eyes, which were controlled using a variable autotransformer. Saperstein managed to get the same octopus prop in the next Toho-UPA co-production, The War of the Gargantuas, with its scene remaining in both the Japanese and American versions this time. Both Toho and Tokyo Shock have since made this ending available on home video. Saperstein said the new octopus 'wasn't that good,' and the ending remained unreleased until it accidentally aired on Japanese television on April 8, 1971. However, when American International Pictures distributed the film as Frankenstein Conquers the World, they used the original ending where Frankenstein plummets into a fissure. the Giant Devilfish' and published photos of Frankenstein dueling the giant cephalopod. Of the scene, Honda thought that 'putting the octopus in a lake in the mountains was very awkward.' Famous Monsters of Filmland initially reported the title of the film as ' Frankenstein vs.

During post-production, he requested that Ishiro Honda and Tsuburaya shoot a new ending involving a giant octopus, impressed by the creature's portrayal in King Kong vs. The film was a co-production with UPA, led by Henry G. According to Murase, the prop consisted of a wire-mesh frame covered in foam (the frame later removed), which was then coated with sawdust and latex. Keizo Murase and brothers Kanju and Yasuei Yagi built a larger Giant Octopus puppet for the would-be American ending to Frankenstein vs. Finally, a stop-motion tentacle appears during the Giant Octopus' siege, picking up a Faro Island warrior and throwing him. All of the molded objects were created by Eizo Kaimai, who used latex casts of real octopi. Several full-sized tentacle props also flail around during the battle with the Faro Islanders.

Once the shots were finished, the crew released some of the animals and ate the rest.įor the scenes where King Kong suit actor Shoichi Hirose was required to tussle with the octopus, a rubber puppet was instead used. We even tried to use cigarettes!' Finally, someone came up with the idea of using lighting equipment and a pin filter to shoot the octopus with a beam of light. No matter how hard we did it, it wouldn't move. Assistant special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano recalled that getting them to move was difficult, saying: 'We threw the octopus on the table and poked him with a stick, threw water on him, and blew air on him, but it wouldn't move. Several live octopi were used to portray the monster onscreen. Godzilla screenplay without warning, but Eiji Tsuburaya and his team liked the idea. Shinichi Sekizawa added a scene featuring a giant octopus into his King Kong vs.

Toho's official name for the creature is read Ōdako (alternatively spelled Oodako), which simply means 'Giant Octopus.' 'Daidako' is a mistranslated nickname, using the alternate pronunciation dai of the kanji 大.

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The monster was featured in Godzilla: Heart-Pounding Monster Island!! for the Sega Pico and the first prequel novel to the GODZILLA anime trilogy, GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse, and most recently was voted into the mobile game Godzilla Battle Line through a fan poll. Compared to most other kaiju from the Godzilla franchise, the Giant Octopus has made very few appearances in other media since its three film roles in the Showa series. Baragon, and finally in The War of the Gargantuas. It returned in the alternate ending of Frankenstein vs. The Giant Octopus ( 大 ( おお )ダコ, Ōdako) is a cephalopod kaiju who first appeared in the 1962 Toho Godzilla film King Kong vs. For the giant cephalopod who partially serves as a homage to this creature in Kong: Skull Island, see Mire Squid. For the creature of the same name from Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla cartoon, see Giant Octopus (Hanna-Barbera). This article covers the Giant Octopus featured in three Toho films from the Showa era.

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