Return of Daimajin
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Return of Daimajin (大魔神 怒る Daimashin Ikaru, lit. Angry Daimajin) is a 1966 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Daiei Film Co. Ltd. Released in Japanese theaters on August 13, 1966, it is the second film in the Daimajin trilogy.
Plot
A short time after Daimajin's victory in the first film, the Daimajin spirit has taken residence as his statue form on an island in the middle of a lake. On the shores of the lake lie two villages, Chigusa and Nagoshi. These two villages are bordered by a third, home to an evil lord. The citizens flee to Chigusa as often as they can, and make their way there, where the lords are only too happy to take in the refugees. One day the evil lord decides to take over the two villages, and he sees a window of opportunity in a festival that is held every year. Knowing of the risk Daimajin would present, the lord sends his soldiers to detonate the statue using explosives. A group of people are singled out by the lord's forces and eventually reach the submerged remains of Daimajin's statue, and ask for his help in the situation. Now awakened, the spirit takes back his physical form, and travels to the lord's village and attacks. Laying waste to the area, he kills the lord and his allies, before returning to his spirit form and departing from the lake's shores.
Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Kazuo Mori
- Written by Tetsuro Yoshida
- Produced by Masaichi Nagata
- Music by Akira Ifukube
- Cinematography by Fujio Morita, Shozo Tanaka
- Edited by Kanji Suganuma
- Assistant directing by Hitoshi Obuchi
- Special effects by Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Kojiro Hongo as Lord Juro
- Shiho Fujimura as Lady Sayuri
- Taro Marui as Dodohei
- Jutaro Hojo as Genba Onikojima
- Koichi Uenoyama as Katsushige Nakoshi
- Asao Uchida as Heibei Nakoshi
- Chikara Hashimoto as Shunpei Ikenaga / Daimajin
- Takashi Kanda as Lord Danjo Mikoshiba
- Sei Hiraizumi as Hayato Tabe
- Koji Fujiyama as Ikkaku Arai
- Koichi Mizuhara as Kamon Doi
- Gen Takasugi as Saburota Ato
- Hyosuke Kanbe as Mohachi
- Yusaku Terajima as Kanetsuki-wasuke
- Kimiko Tachibana as Kume
- Yuji Hamada as Farmer #2
- Hideo Kuroki as Tasuke
- Kohbu Matsuda as Farmer #1
- Yoshitaka Ito as Farmer #3
- Tadashi Iwata
- Yutaro Ban
- Kiyokazu Kagatsume as Ryuta
- Kayo Mikimoto as Toyo
- Keiko Koyanagi as Shige
Appearances
Monsters
Gallery
- Main article: Return of Daimajin/Gallery.
Soundtrack
- Main article: Return of Daimajin (Soundtrack).
Alternate Titles
- Majin Strikes Again
- Daimajin Strikes Again
- Return of Majin
- The Return of the Giant Majin
- Majin Monster of Terror
- Wrath of Daimajin
Video Releases
ADV DVD (2002) [The Complete Daimajin Trilogy]
- Region: 1
- Discs: 3
- Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono)
- Special Features: Trailers
- Notes: Out of print. Packaged with Daimajin and Wrath of Daimajin. Reissued as a single disc in 2005.
Mill Creek Blu-ray (2012) [Daimajin Triple Feature]
- Region: N/A
- Discs: 2
- Audio: Japanese (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0), English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0)
- Special Features: Trailers for all three Daimajin films, interviews with cinematographer Fujio Morita on the making of each film (28, 31, and 28 minutes).
- Notes: Packaged with Daimajin and Wrath of Daimajin.
Videos
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Trivia
- This film is the only instance in the trilogy where Daimajin is first found in an area which isn't mountainous in terrain.
- ADV's 1998 VHS and 2002 DVD releases swapped the titles of Return of Daimajin and Daimajin Strikes Again (which they called Wrath of Daimajin). This was corrected in their 2005 reissues of the DVDs.
References
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