Agon (TV 1968)

Agon Air date January 2-5, 1968 Directed by Norio Mine, Fuminori Ohashi Producer(s) Tsuneyasu Matsumoto Written by Shinichi Sekizawa, Kozo Uchida Music by Wataru Saito Special effects by Fuminori Ohashi Production company Nippon Denpa Eiga Channel(s) Fuji TV Genre(s) Tokusatsu, science fiction Episodes 4 Rate this series! 3.25 (4 votes)

Agon (アゴン) is a 1968 black-and-white Japanese tokusatsu kaiju miniseries supervised and co-written by prolific Toho screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa. The first half was directed by Norio Mine and written by Sekizawa, while the second half was directed by Fuminori Ohashi and written by Kozo Uchida. Ohashi also served as the director of special effects on all four episodes. Produced by Nippon Denpa Eiga, the series aired on Fuji TV from January 2 to 5, 1968. It was later edited into a 96-minute film, which Toho Video released on VHS in the 1980s.

Plot

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Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air date
1	"Agon Appears: Part One"	Norio Mine	Shinichi Sekizawa	01/02/1968
2	"Agon Appears: Part Two"			01/03/1968
3	"Hanging by a Thread: Part One"	Fuminori Ohashi	Kozo Uchida	01/04/1968
4	"Hanging by a Thread: Part Two"			01/05/1968

Staff

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

• Supervised by   Shinichi Sekizawa
• Directed by   Norio Mine, Fuminori Ohashi
• Written by   Shinichi Sekizawa, Kozo Uchida
• Produced by   Tsuneyasu Matsumoto
• Music by   Wataru Saito
• Sound recording by   Masao Takegawa
• Cinematography by   Takao Kawarazaki
• Production design by   Seiichi Toriizuka
• Lighting by   Hisao Matsumoto
• Director of special effects   Fuminori Ohashi
• Special effects photographer   Haruki Kageyama

Cast

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

• Shinji Hirota   as   Goro Sumoto
• Asao Matsumoto   as   Detective Yamato
• Yasuhiko Shima   as   Dr. Ukyo
• Akemi Sawa   as   Satsuki Shizukawa
• Yoshihiro Kobayashi   as   Monta
• Etsuji Azuma   as   Agon

Appearances

Monsters

• Agon

Development

Agon was initially planned as a series of 26, 30-minute episodes entitled Atomic Monster Agon.

Production

Four episodes of Agon were completed by 1964. However, Toho used the no-compete clause in creator Shinichi Sekizawa's contract to prevent them from being broadcast for four years, citing Agon's resemblance to Godzilla.

Alternate titles

• Atomic Monster Agon (原子怪獣アゴン,   Genshi Kaijū Agon, planned title)
• Monster Agon (怪獣アゴン,   Kaijū Agon, erroneous title)
• Phantom Monster Agon (幻の怪獣アゴン,   Maboroshi no Kaijū Agon, Japanese VHS/Betamax title)
• Giant Phantom Monster Agon (幻の大怪獣アゴン,   Maboroshi no Daikaijū Agon, Japanese DVD title)
• Agon: Atomic Dragon (English title on Japanese VHS)
• Atomic Dragon (English title on Japanese DVD)

Video releases

King Records DVD (2005)

• Region: 2
• Discs: 2
• Audio: Japanese
• Subtitles: None
• Special features: Audio commentary, interviews

TC Entertainment Blu-ray (2017)

• Region: A/1
• Discs: 1
• Audio: Japanese
• Subtitles: None
• Special features: None
• Notes: Cropped to 1.78:1.

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  King Records DVD

References

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Bibliography

• Sakai, Yukio, ed. (24 March 1990). All Kaiju Kaijin (First Volume). Keibunsha. ISBN 4-7669-0962-3.
• We Loved It: Tokusatsu Heroes BEST Magazine. Kodansha. 22 April 2009. ISBN 978-4-06-375707-1.
• Derendorf, Kevin (2018). Kaiju for Hipsters: 101 "Alternative" Giant Monster Movies. Maser Press. ISBN 9781983293771.

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