Dogora


Dogara, the Space Monster, released in Japan as Uch Daikaij Dogora ? , lit. Giant Space Monster Dogora , is a 1964 Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishir Honda and featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred Nobuo Nakamura, Akiko Wakabayashi, and Hollywood actor Robert Dunham. The film tells the story of a huge jellyfishlike creature from space that attacks Japan.

As an amorphous alien lifeform annihilated a television satellite above Japan, a similar creature on Earth suddenly thwarted the efforts of a local branch of the International Diamond Robbery Ring. The diamonds they sought vanished, and similar unexplained events continued to occur across the globe. The gangsters thought they were in luck however, for they caught word of a shipment of raw diamonds in Yokohama. The professional thieves took advantage of this ripe opportunity and attempted a heist on an armored car unfortunately for them, they were fooled and escaped with nothing but candy...Meanwhile, Inspector Kommeis investigation of these strange events led him to the crystallographer Dr. Munakata. In the process of tracking down the solo jewel thief Mark Jackson, the police came to learn of the mysterious events of the armored car heist. A nearby coal truck had begun to lift off the ground by some unknown force and disappear into the atmosphere. The creature from outer space was deemed to be the culprit, an alien beast that drew its energy from carbon. Dr. Munakata, confident in a remarkable scientific discovery, left for the coalmines near northern Kyushu, where it was proposed that the strange being would make its next appearance. Mark Jackson, whose motives were still unclear, also took leave for Kyushu, as the realization was finally made that the candy recovered at the heist was likely his doing. It was probable that he had, in truth, absconded with the true gems. Hamako, one of the gangsters responsible for the failed heist, prepared to doublecross her comrades and retrieve the diamonds for herself. ........

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