Death Kappa (film)

Death Kappa

Directed by

Tomoo Haraguchi

Producer

Yoshinori Chiba, Yoko Hayama,
Tomo Fukatsu, Hidemasa Iwashita,
John Sirabella (executive)

Written by

Masakazu Migita (screenplay),
Tomo Haraguchi (story)

Music by

Masako Ishi

Distributor

Nikkatsu^JP

Running time

79 minutes
(1 hour, 29 minutes)

Aspect ratio

1.85:1

“	King Kong is DEAD. Godzilla is RETIRED. a new MONSTER is in town.	„
	— Tagline

Death Kappa (デスカッパ, Desu Kappa) is a 2010 tokusatsu kaiju film co-produced by Nikkatsu, Nakasu, and Fever Dreams. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Tokyo Shock on July 27, 2010, and released in Japanese theaters on November 27, 2010, by Nikkatsu.

Description

When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the "Death Kappa." The two rival monsters must go head-to-head in the ultimate battle between good and evil!

Plot

	*“I knew that『plot』wasn't up to much.”* This plot synopsis is missing or incomplete. Please help by editing this section.

Staff

Main article: Death Kappa (film)/Credits.

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

Directed by Tomo Haraguchi
Written by Masakazu Migita (screenplay), Tomo Haraguchi (story)
Executive producing by John Sirabella
Produced by Yoko Hayama, Yoshinori Chiba, Tomo Fukatsu, Hidemasa Iwashita
Music by Masako Ishi
Cinematography by Yoshihito Takahashi
Edited by Yoshitaka Honda
Production design by Masaaki Sugiyama
Assistant directing by Daiji Hattori
Special effects by Tomo Haraguchi

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

Misato Hirata as Kanako
Mika Sakuraba as Yuriko
Ryuki Kitaoka
Daniel Aguilar
Yakan Nabe
Takayuki Kanayama
Yukari Toyoshima
Wataru Ikeda
Mizuho Suzuki
Shinji Higuchi as Reporter
Mitsunori Hattori
Yuka Koide
Katsuyuki Iseda
Toshio Miyake
Eiichi Furui
Yu Sato
Takenori Ito
Yoshinori Horimoto
Naohiro Ogura
Tamami Kaneko
Masaya Tagana
Kaichi Kaburagi

Ikuko Miyamoto
Akira Yamada
Hidekatsu Shibata
Mitsuko Hoshi
Shigeru Araki
Kosuke Yanagawa
Kiyoshi Yoshida
Satoshi Sonehara
Yuki Sawada
Ryosuke Hirai
Toshiyuki Ando
Moritsugu Oya
Nozomu Kikugawa
Yuji Kimura
Yoshiyuki Koba
Shinjiro Gouda
Akihiro Watanabe
Asuka Ito
Natsuko Tohma
Rie Muratomi
Hideaki Anno
Kazunori Yokoo as Death Kappa
Toshio Miyake as Hangyolas

English Dub

Cristina Vee as Kanako
Karen Strassman as Yuriko
Spike Spencer as Fukudome
Erin Fitzgerald as Aki
Lauren Landa as Yayoi
Michelle Ann Dunphry as Reporter
Louise Chamis as Mifune
Jason Wishnov as Kouji
David Lodge as Omobe
Tony Oliver as Kenta
Luke Ralph as Mitsuo
Sonja S. Fox as Habaki
Kirk Thornton as Hatoyama
James Serrano as Captain Yoyogi

Appearances

Monsters

Weapons, Vehicles, and Races

Gallery

Main article: Death Kappa (film)/Gallery.

Theatrical Releases

Japan - November 27, 2010
United States - July 10, 2015
Canada - July 16, 2015
Australia - July 18, 2015
New Zealand - July 23, 2015

Video Releases

Tokyo Shock DVD/Blu-ray+DVD (2010)

Region: 1 (DVD) or A/1 (Blu-ray)
Discs: 1 (DVD) or 2 (Blu-ray+DVD)
Audio: English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 and 5.1), Japanese (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 and 5.1)
Subtitles: English
Special Features: "The Making of Death Kappa" featurette (11 minutes), extended version of the film's music video (5 minutes), pre-production promo films (5 minutes), still gallery (8 minutes), trailers for Death Kappa and other Fever Dreams films
Notes: Both the DVD and Blu-ray include all of the listed special features.

Videos

Trailers

Death Kappa Japanese trailer

Death Kappa American trailer

External Links

Streaming link (Crunchyroll)

Films

Godzilla films

Showa era

Godzilla (1954) • Godzilla Raids Again (1955) • King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) • Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) • Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) • Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) • Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) • Son of Godzilla (1967) • Destroy All Monsters (1968) • All Monsters Attack (1969) • Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) • Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) • Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) • Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Heisei era

The Return of Godzilla (1984) • Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) • Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) • Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)

Millennium era

Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) • Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) • Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) • Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) • Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) • Godzilla Final Wars (2004)

Reiwa era

Live action	Shin Godzilla (2016) • Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Animated	GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters (2017) • GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle (2018) • GODZILLA: The Planet Eater (2018)

American films

GODZILLA (1998) • Godzilla (2014) • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) • Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Short films

"Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley" (1992) • Monster Planet of Godzilla (1994) • Godzilla: The Real 4-D (2017) • Dream Challenge: Godzilla Appears in Sukagawa (2019) • "The Faceless Star" (2019) • Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D (2019) • Godzilla Interception Operation Awaji attraction video (2020) • Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fest (2020) • Godzilla the Ride: Giant Monsters Ultimate Battle (2021) • "The Impact of a Blue Day" (2021) • Godzilla vs. Hedorah (2021) • Godzilla vs. the Tigers (2022) • Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex (2022) • Fest Godzilla 3: Gigan Attacks (2022) • "GO YOUR WAY" (2023) • Godzilla vs. Megalon (2023) • Fest Godzilla 4: Operation Jet Jaguar (2023)

Gamera films

Shōwa period	Gamera the Giant Monster (1965) • Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) • Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967) • Gamera vs. Viras (1968) • Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) • Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) • Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) • Gamera Super Monster (1980)

Heisei period	Gamera the Guardian of the Universe (1995) • Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996) • Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) • Gamera the Brave (2006)

Short films	Gamera vs. Garasharp (1991) • GAMERA (2015)

King Kong films

King Kong (1933) • Son of Kong (1933) • King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) • King Kong Escapes (1967) • King Kong (1976) • King Kong Lives (1986) • The Mighty Kong (1998) • Kong: King of Atlantis (2005) • King Kong (2005) • Kong: Return to the Jungle (2006) • Kong: Skull Island (2017) • Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Other Toho films

Shōwa period	Ramayana (1940s) • Invisible Man (1954) • Half Human (1955) • Rodan (1956) • The Mysterians (1957) • The H-Man (1958) • Varan (1958) • The Three Treasures (1959) • Battle in Outer Space (1959) • The Secret of the Telegian (1960) • The Human Vapor (1960) • Mothra (1961) • The Last War (1961) • Gorath (1962) • Matango (1963) • Atragon (1963) • Dogora (1964) • Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) • The War of the Gargantuas (1966) • The Killing Bottle (1967) • Latitude Zero (1969) • Konto 55: The Great Outer Space Adventure (1969) • Space Amoeba (1970) • Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972) • Submersion of Japan (1973) • ESPY (1974) • Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) • The War in Space (1977) • Magnitude 7.9 (1980) • Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) • Princess from the Moon (1987)

Heisei period	Cyber Cop (1989) • Gunhed (1989) • Mikadoroid (1991) • Reiko, Psyche Resurrected (1991) • Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994) • Rebirth of Mothra (1996) • Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997) • Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998) • Super Fleet Sazer-X the Movie (2005) • Sinking of Japan (2006) • Go! Godman (2008) • Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 (2015) • Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 (2015)

Reiwa period	Monster Hunter (2020) • The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021) • Shin Ultraman (2022) • yokaipedia (2022)

Other Daiei films

The Invisible Man Appears (1949) • Warning from Space (1956) • The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly (1957) • Killer Whale (1962) • Daimajin (1966) • Return of Daimajin (1966) • Wrath of Daimajin (1966) • Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969)

Other Japanese films

Shōwa period	Japanese King Kong (1933) • The Great Buddha Arrival (1934) • The King Kong that Appeared in Edo (1938) • Magic Serpent (1966) • The X from Outer Space (1967) • Gappa (1967) • The Last Dinosaur (1977) • Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977) • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Heisei period	The Cat (1991) • Sakuya (2000) • Wanigon vs. Gamaron (2000) • The Great Yokai War (2005) • Negadon: The Monster from Mars (2005) • Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters (2008) • Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008) • Geharha: The Dark and Long Haired Monster‎ (2009) • Demeking, the Sea Monster (2009) • Raiga: God of the Monsters (2009) • Death Kappa (2010) • The God of Clay (2011) • A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo (2012) • Jellyfish Eyes (2013) • Day of the Kaiju (2014) • Love & Peace (2015) • Kaiju Mono (2016) • The Great Buddha Arrival (2018) • Kaiju Ward Gallas (2019)

Reiwa period	God Raiga vs. King Ohga: War of the Monsters (2019) • The Great Actress Reiko Inui (2019) • Howl from Beyond the Fog (2019) • Monster Seafood Wars (2020) • The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 (2020) • Nezura 1964 (2021) • Yatsuashi (2021) • What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? (2022) • Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo (2022) • AKARI (2022) • Hoshi 35 (2023) • Brush of the God (2024) • "Foodlosslla: What Should Humanity Do!?" (2024) • Kaiju: Island of Fire (TBA)

Miscellaneous

Films	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) • The Giant Behemoth (1959) • Gorgo (1961) • Bulgasari (1962) • Gogola (1966) • Space Monster Wangmagwi (1967) • Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) • APE (1976) • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) • Pulgasari (1985) • Reptilian (1999) • Cloverfield (2008) • 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) • Colossal (2016) • The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) • Rampage (2018) • Notzilla (2019) • untitled Cloverfield sequel (TBA)

Documentaries	Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection (1986) • Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1998) • GAMERA1999 (1999) • Bringing Godzilla Down to Size (2008) • The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga (2019) • Yonggary Chronicle Project (2019) • Godzilla's Leading Ladies (2020)

Fan films	Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969) • Gamera 4: Truth (2003) • Waiting for Gorgo (2009) • G vs. G (2019) • Godziban (2019) • Heritage (2020) • Coming Out (2020) • Wolfman vs. Godzilla (TBA)

V • T • E

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{Tab
-|credits     =Death Kappa/Credits
+|credits     =Death Kappa (film)/Credits
 }}
 {{Infopelicula
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 |dt          =''Death Kappa'' (2010)
 |director    =Tomoo Haraguchi
-|producer    =Yoshinori Chiba, Yoko Hayama,<br>Tomoo Fukatsu, Hidemasa Iwashita,<br>John Sirabella (executive)
+|producer    =Yoshinori Chiba, Yoko Hayama,<br>Tomo Fukatsu, Hidemasa Iwashita,<br>John Sirabella (executive)
-|writer      =Masakazu Migita (screenplay)<br>Tomoo Haraguchi (story)
+|writer      =Masakazu Migita (screenplay),<br>Tomo Haraguchi (story)
-|composer    =Masako Ishii
+|composer    =Masako Ishi
 |distributor =[[Nikkatsu Corporation|Nikkatsu]]{{sup|[[Japan|JP]]}}
 |runtime     =79 minutes<br>{{Small|(1 hour, 29 minutes)}}
 |aspectratio =1.85:1
 }}
-{{Quote|[[King Kong]] is DEAD. [[Godzilla]] is RETIRED. A [[Death Kappa|new MONSTER]] is in town.|Tagline}}
+{{Quote|[[King Kong]] is DEAD. [[Godzilla]] is RETIRED. a [[Death Kappa|new MONSTER]] is in town.|Tagline}}
-'''''Death Kappa''''' {{Nihongo|デスカッパ|Desukappa}} is a [[2010]] [[tokusatsu]] [[kaiju]] [[:Category:Kaiju Films|film]] co-produced by Tokyo Shock and Fever Dreams, and distributed by [[Nikkatsu Corporation|Nikkatsu]]. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Tokyo Shock on July 27, 2010, and released in [[Japan]]ese theaters on November 27, [[2010]], by Nikkatsu.
+'''''Death Kappa''''' {{Nihongo|デスカッパ|Desu Kappa}} is a [[2010]] [[tokusatsu]] [[kaiju]] [[:Category:Kaiju Films|film]] co-produced by [[Nikkatsu Corporation|Nikkatsu]], Nakasu, and Fever Dreams. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Tokyo Shock on July 27, 2010, and released in [[Japan]]ese theaters on November 27, [[2010]], by Nikkatsu.
 {{TOC}}
 ==Description==
@@ Line 26: / Line 26: @@
 {{Plot Missing}}
 ==Staff==
+{{Main|Death Kappa (film)/Credits}}
 {{Staffs
-|Directed by=Tomoo Haraguchi
+|Directed by=Tomo Haraguchi
-|Written by=Masakazu Migita (screenplay), Tomoo Haraguchi (story)
+|Written by=Masakazu Migita (screenplay), Tomo Haraguchi (story)
-|Produced by=Yoko Hayama, Yoshinori Chiba, Tomoo Fukatsu, Hidemasa Iwashita
+|Produced by=Yoko Hayama, Yoshinori Chiba, Tomo Fukatsu, Hidemasa Iwashita
 |Executive Producing by=John Sirabella
-|Music by=Masako Ishii
+|Music by=Masako Ishi
 |Cinematography by=Yoshihito Takahashi
 |Edited by=Yoshitaka Honda
 |Production Design by=Masaaki Sugiyama
 |Assistant Directing by=Daiji Hattori
-|Special Effects by=Tomoo Haraguchi
+|Special Effects by=Tomo Haraguchi
 }}
 ==Cast==
@@ Line 43: / Line 44: @@
 {{Cast
 |Misato Hirata|Kanako
-|Mika Nakashima|Yuriko
+|Mika Sakuraba|Yuriko
 *Ryuki Kitaoka
 *Daniel Aguilar
@@ Line 64: / Line 65: @@
 *Masaya Tagana
 *Kaichi Kaburagi
+{{Col-2}}
 *Ikuko Miyamoto
 *Akira Yamada
@@ Line 69: / Line 71: @@
 *Mitsuko Hoshi
 *Shigeru Araki
-*Kousuke Yanagawa
+*Kosuke Yanagawa
 *Kiyoshi Yoshida
 *Satoshi Sonehara
@@ Line 75: / Line 77: @@
 *Ryosuke Hirai
 *Toshiyuki Ando
-}}
+*Moritsugu Oya
-{{col-2}}
-{{Cast
-|Moritsugu Oya|
 *Nozomu Kikugawa
 *Yuji Kimura
@@ Line 91: / Line 90: @@
 |Toshio Miyake|[[Hangyolas]]
 }}
+{{Col-end}}
 ===English Dub===
-{{Cast
+{{Cast|notice=no
 |Cristina Vee|Kanako
 |Karen Strassman|Yuriko
@@ Line 108: / Line 108: @@
 |James Serrano|Captain Yoyogi
 }}
-{{col-end}}
 ==Appearances==
 {{col-begin}}
@@ Line 146: / Line 144: @@
 *[http://www.crunchyroll.com/maturity_wall?next=%2Fdeath-kappa%3Fskip_wall%3D1 Streaming link (Crunchyroll)]
 {{Kaiju Movies}}
-{{Era|NIK|MIL|KAI|FIL}}
+{{Era|NIK|HEI|KAI|FIL}}
 [[Category:Films]]
 [[Category:Japanese films]]
 [[Category:Kaiju Films]]
-[[Category:Millennium Series]]
+[[Category:Heisei Series]]

Death Kappa (film): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:06, 7 April 2019

Contents

Description

Plot

Staff

Cast

English Dub

Appearances

Monsters

Weapons, Vehicles, and Races

Gallery

Theatrical Releases

Video Releases

Videos

Trailers

External Links

Navigation menu

Page actions

Page actions

Personal tools

Navigation

Search

Tools