The King Kong That Appeared in Edo

MOVIE #1,462 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 03.20.24 This lost silent kaiju, thankfully, isn’t 100% lost. There’s 30 seconds worth of surviving footage on YouTube so we can get a little taste for what this vastly looking “King Kong” looked like (and he looks fabulous!). Some more context: “the ape, looking more like a yeti, is referred to as "King Kong" in name only and does not appear gigantic outside of promotional photos. These photos that appear on the film’s flyers and advertisements depict him being so big that he is holding Chinami in the palm of his hand and is straddling buildings as he faces down Hyoue Toba's men. This, along with the fact that Zensho was a typical Poverty Row studio that did not have sound recording equipment (none of the 173 films they produced between 1936 and 1941 were talkies), leads to the belief that Zensho was simply trying to capitalize on King Kong's 1938 re-issue in that country by promoting the ape as giant.” [Source]

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The King Kong That Appeared in Edo (江戸に現れたキングコング, Edo ni Arawareta Kingu Kongu), commonly erroneously translated as King Kong Appears in Edo, is a 1938 Japanese two-part silent jidaigeki film produced by Zenshō Cinema. It is now considered to be a lost film. It was released on March 31, 1938.