Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
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One by one, humans are sucked of their blood and mummified! (生き血を吸われた人間が次々にミイラと化す！)
Brutal! A frenzied vampire... and you're next! (残忍！狂暴な吸血鬼・・・ 次はお前だ！) |
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A fiendish vampire from a strange world in outer space drains his victims' blood and turns them into weird corpses!
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A human beast thrives on the blood of men and women, and throws all mankind into the threat of extermination.
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Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell (吸血鬼ゴケミドロ Kyūketsuki Gokemidoro, lit. Vampire Gokemidoro) is a 1968 tokusatsu kaijin film produced by Shochiku. It was released to Japanese theaters on August 14, 1968.
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Staff
- Main article: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell/Credits.
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Hajime Sato
- Written by Susumu Takaku, Kyuzo Kobayashi
- Produced by Akira Inomata
- Music by Shunsuke Kikuchi
- Cinematography by Shizuo Hirase
- Edited by Akimitsu Terada
- Production Design by Koretaka Yoshino
- Assistant Directing by Keiji Shiraki
- Special Effects by Shinsuke Kojima
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Teruo Yoshida as Ei Sugisaka, pilot
- Tomomi Sato as Kazumi Asakura, stewardess
- Hideo Ko as Hirofumi Teraoka, terrorist and vampire
- Masaya Takahashi as Professor Saga, astrobiologist
- Nobuo Kaneko as Mr. Tokiyasu, weapons exporter
- Eizo Kitamura as Gozo Mano, Senator of the Constitutional Democratic Party
- Yuko Kusunoki as Noriko Tokiyasu, Mr. Tokiyasu's wife
- Kazuo Kato as Dr. Momotake, psychiatrist
- Hiroyuki Nishimoto as Airplane captain
- Norihiko Yamamoto as Matsumiya, suicide bomber
- Cathy Holan as Mrs. Neal, widow
- Harold Conway as Ambassador (uncredited)
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Gallery
- Main article: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell/Gallery.
Soundtrack
- Main article: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (Soundtrack).
Alternate Titles
- Vampire Gokemidoro (Literal Japanese title)
- GOKE, The Bodysnatcher From Hell (English Japanese DVD title)
- Body Snatcher from Hell (American title)
- Goke the Vampire (Alternate American title)
- Destroy DC 59, from the Space Station in Hong Kong (Distruggete DC 59, da Base Spaziale a Hong Kong, Italian title)
- Goke - Vampire from Outer Space (Goke - Vampir aus dem Weltall, German title)
Theatrical Releases
- Japan - August 14, 1968
- Germany - July 25, 1969
Video Releases
Shochiku VHS (1993)
- Tapes: 1
- Audio: Japanese
Shochiku DVD (2003)
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Audio: Japanese
- Special Features: Theatrical trailer, interviews with Hideo Ko and Tomio Sagisu, audio commentary with Shinji Higuchi and Jun Miura, still gallery
- Notes: Re-released on December 3, 2005, January 28, 2009, and November 23, 2011.
The Criterion Collection DVD (2012)
- Region: 1
- Discs: 4
- Audio: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Special Features: None
- Notes: Packaged with The X from Outer Space, The Living Skeleton, and Genocide.
Shochiku Blu-ray (2014)
- Region: 0
- Discs: 1
- Audio: Japanese (LPCM 2.0)
- Subtitles: Japanese
- Special Features: Theatrical trailer
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