Although some have accused it of exploiting the Frankenstein connectionįor purely monetary reasons, that doesn't make it any less bizarre or enjoyable if you have a fondness for Japanese science fiction films.

World (1965) is easily the weirdest entry in the entire genre. Of all the countless horror and fantasy films inspired by Mary Shelley's famous 1818 novel, Ishiro Honda's Frankenstein Conquers the As the army, police, and scientists pursue the gigantic boy, he struggles with and overcomes the reptile, but he himself perishes in another earthquake. Soon it is reported that a huge creature is wreaking destruction in the area, and the 'Frankenstein boy' is blamed, but actually an earthquake has released a giant prehistoric reptile. The boy grows to be almost 100 feet tall and takes refuge in the forests of Mount Fuji. This theory is confirmed when the boy escapes his steel shackles by tearing off his hand and then quickly generating a new one. After befriending the creature and discovering that he is growing to monstrous proportions at an amazing rate, the scientists theorize that the fallout from the bomb has brought about his birth from the Frankenstein heart. James Bowen, and his Japanese assistants learn of the existence of a mysterious wild boy who subsists on wildlife. Ten years later, an American medical scientist, Dr.

As the scientists are examining the organ, the atom bomb is dropped on the city. Toward the end of World War II, a sealed box containing the living heart of the Frankenstein monster is shipped from a Nazi laboratory in Germany to Japanese scientists at Hiroshima.

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