Film · Action, Horror, Science Fiction
Gappa, the Triphibian Monster (1967)
Vast! Hideous! Invincible!
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
- Director
- Haruyasu Noguchi
- Writers
- Ryuzo Nakanishi, Gan Yamazaki, Akira Watanabe
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- April 22, 1967
- Original title
- 大巨獣ガッパ
Cast
Tamio KawachiHiroshi Kurosaki
Yōko YamamotoItoko Koyanagi- Yuji OkadaDaize Tonooka
Kōji WadaMashida
Tatsuya FujiGeorge Inoue- Keisuke InouePresident Funazu
Zenji YamadaCaptain of the Kamome-maru- Bumon KaharaElder
- Kōtarō SugieReporter #1
Saburo HiromatsuHosoda- Toshinosuke NagaoCmdr. Riku
- Masaru KamiyamaThe Professor
- Kokan KatsuraSaburo Hayashi
- Shirō OshimiOyama
- Yoko OyanagiAihara
- Sanpei MineIslander 1
- Takashi KoshibaReporter 2
- Kensuke TamaiIslander 2
- Minoru SatoReporter 3
- Seiji MatsuokaIslander 3
