--- title: 'Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)' type: 'film' director: 'Ishirō Honda' released: '1965-12-19' runtime_minutes: 101 certification: 'G' genres: - 'Action' - 'Adventure' - 'Science Fiction' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/invasion-of-astro-monster-1965' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059346/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) 1965 · G · 101 min · Action, Adventure, Science Fiction · Japan ## Synopsis Invasion of Astro-Monster is a 1965 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It is the sixth film in the Godzilla franchise and Shōwa period. The film was a Japanese-American co-production; it was the second collaboration between Toho Co., Ltd. and UPA. The film stars Akira Takarada, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Akira Kubo, and Yoshio Tsuchiya, with Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla, Masaki Shinohara as Rodan, and Shoichi Hirose as King Ghidorah. In the film, aliens plead with humanity to borrow Godzilla and Rodan to defeat Ghidorah, only to betray the humans and unleash the monsters on the Earth. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ishirō Honda](https://cinepixo.com/people/ishiro-honda) - **Screenplay:** [Shinichi Sekizawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinichi-sekizawa) - **Original Music Composer:** [Akira Ifukube](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-ifukube) - **Producer:** [Tomoyuki Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomoyuki-tanaka) ## Cast - [Yoshifumi Tajima](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshifumi-tajima) - [Kumi Mizuno](https://cinepixo.com/people/kumi-mizuno) - [Yoshio Tsuchiya](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshio-tsuchiya) - [Haruo Nakajima](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruo-nakajima) - [Akira Kubo](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kubo) - [Noriko Sengoku](https://cinepixo.com/people/noriko-sengoku) - [Akira Takarada](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-takarada) - [Nick Adams](https://cinepixo.com/people/nick-adams) - [Jun Tazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/jun-tazaki) - [Shoichi Hirose](https://cinepixo.com/people/shoichi-hirose) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/invasion-of-astro-monster-1965 Film facts: Wikidata (Q814166); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.