Daimajin (1966 film)


Daimajin is a 1966 Japanese jidaigeki kaiju film of the Daimajin series directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda. Its musical score is composed by Akira Ifukube. The film had a brief stateside theatrical release in 1968. Reportedly, it was shown both in Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed into English. The English dubbed version was later shown on TV by American International Pictures under the title Majin, the Monster of Terror.

The children grow to adulthood. The son, Tadafumi Yoshihiko Aoyama reaches his 18th birthday. The years have been miserable on the villagers. Samanosuke is a brutal leader in one scene, he gouges out an old womans eye with a redhot iron hook who is using every man in the starving village as slave labor. The place is ripe for revolution, and surviving Hanabasa retainers are starting to return.Kogenta journeys to the village to try to gather the old retainers, but gets himself captured. A boy gets word to Tadafumi and his sister, Kozasa Miwa Takada that their friend is a prisoner. Tadafumi tries to rescue him, only to discover its a trap. With both awaiting execution, Shinobu tries to talk to the tyrant, who is drinking too much and becomes incensed at all this talk of the god of the mountain he murders the priestess and orders the idol demolished. ........

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