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GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER Japanese B1 OR search current auctions Auction History Result 1a2232 GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER Japanese 29x41 R1970s Godzilla battling Angurus, very rare & cool! Date Sold 10/31/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1970s) Re-Release Theatrical Unfolded Japanese "B1" Movie Poster (29x41; measures 28 1/2" x 40 1/2" [72 x 103 cm]) (Learn More) Gojira no Gykushu (released in the U.S. in 1959 as "Gigantis, the Fire Monster", also known as "Godzilla Raids Again" and "Godzilla's Counter Attack"), the 1955 Motoyoshi Oda Japanese Toho kaiju battling rubbery monsters destroys Tokyo science fiction (sci-fi) horror thriller ("Nothing like it ever before! The fantastic war of the giant fire monsters!"; "Raging up from hell to destroy each other - but first they'll destroy the world!"; "Gigantis Raging out of the bowels of the earth... A hundred tons of hell and fire to ravage and destroy!"; "Angurus Screaming its challenge of mortal combat... Shooting 10,000 degree jets of flaming devastation!"; "They're both alive! Not one but Two of the most terrifying creatures ever loosed on man"; "The fantastic war of giant fire monsters!"; "Born to destroy each other... But first they'll destroy the world!"; "A cast of thousands!") starring Godzilla (billed as "Gigantis" for the U.S. release), Anguirus (billed as "Angurusa" for the U.S. release; gigantic spiked dinosaur, Angirasu), Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, "and A Cast of Thousands!". Not that this is the second Godzilla movie. Gigantis was actually Gojira/Godzilla, but the group that purchased the American rights to the film renamed him in an attempt to convince audiences that Gigantis was a brand new monster.q If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this Japanese "B1" poster, which measures 28 1/2" x 40 1/2" [72 x 103 cm], and is a "country of origin" poster, has some mystery about it. It is surely not the first release from 1955 (it has reproduced foldlines in it, and it was not unusual for Japanese re-releases to use images of earlier posters, because the artwork was no longer available to them). We know of only one example of the 1955 poster (but of course there may be others), and this poster is also extremely rare. Our consignor, who is from Japan, first learned of this poster in the early 1990s, and he believes it is from a theatrical series of reissues of Godzilla films in Japan between 1976 and 1983. He says he thinks it is definitely not for a video release, both because it has no video information on it, and also because he does not think they would have made this poster for a video release. However, examples of this poster might have been used for both a theatrical release and for other purposes. So since we have no reason to question this expert, we believe this rare poster is from either the late 1970s or early 1980s, and we have only auctioned it once before! Condition: very good to fine. The poster was never folded. It has a few tiny creases around the edges but otherwise it is in very nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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