World Cinema Series: The War of The Gargantuas

Free admission and free popcorn.

The War of the Gargantuas (Japanese: フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ, Hepburn: Furankenshutain no Kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira; “Frankenstein’s Monsters: Sanda vs. Gaira”) is a 1966 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Referred to by film historian Stuart Galbraith IV as a “quasi-sequel” to Frankenstein vs. Baragon, the film was a Japanese-American co-production and the third and final collaboration between Toho Co., Ltd. and Henry G. Saperstein. It stars Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, and Kenji Sahara, with Yû Sekida as Sanda and Haruo Nakajima as Gaira. Scientists investigate the sudden appearance of two giant Frankenstein monsters, Sanda and Gaira, culminating in a battle in Tokyo.