Great Desperate Monster Battle: Daigoro Vs. Goliath (1972)/Daigoro Vs. Goliath

Daigoro vs. Goliath (怪獣大奮戦 ダイゴロウ対ゴリアス Kaijû daifunsen: Daigorou tai Goriasu?, lit. Great Desperate Monster Battle: Daigoro Against Goliath) is a 1972 tokusatsu kaiju film. The film was produced as a collaboration between Tsuburaya Productions and Toho Company Ltd. and was released to Japanese theaters on December 17, 1972.

Plot
Daigoro is a monster who became orphaned after the military used Intercontinental missiles to kill his mother, who did what she could to protect him. Only one man stood up to that call. He pitied the child, and took the infant as his own to Japan and raised him there. Soon Daigoro grew too big for a man to take care of, since he needed feeding too often. This caused the man to make Daigoro an icon for a business so he could be fed.

​Elsewhere, a monster named Goliath crashed to Earth. The two monsters engaged in battle. Daigoro did his best to stand his ground, but Goliath defeated him by striking him with lightning from his horn. Goliath then left to test his power against the world, leaving Daigoro to die. However, Daigoro recovered and practiced daily for his next battle against Goliath. After an intense fight Daigoro breathed his fire ray and managed to defeat Goliath. The humans then grabbed Goliath while he was weak, and strapped him to a rocket to blast into space.

Cast

• ​Shinsuke Minami as Goro Kizawa
• Kazuya Kosaka as Saito
• Akiji Koboyashi as Hitoshi Suzuki
• Hachiro Misumi as Goro Hachi
• Jun Hamamura as Doctor
• Hideo Sunazuka as Middle-Aged Man
• Masao Komatsu
• Kiyoshi Hitomi as Newscaster
• Fusako Amachi as Yoshiko
• Reiko Hitomi as Umeko Onisawa
• Miyako Tasaka as Woman
• Chizuko Tashiro as Saito's Girlfriend
• Daisuke Wakamiya as Grandfather
• Hajime Imamura as Father
• Hisao Sasaki, Hiroshi Ikaida, Tsutomu Yamadera as Zookeeper
• Shigeru Tsuji as Assistant
• Katsumi Ishiyama as Zookeeper Boss
• Tomonori Yazaki as Taro
• Koichi Murata, Shigeyuki Sunouchi, Stanley Furnace, Kyoko Kawai, Kyoko Ito as Kids
• Hiroshi Inuzuka as Uncle
• Taiyu Wakamiya
• Geru Tsujishi
• Tetsuo Yamamura as Daigoro
• Hisashi Kato as Goliath

Production

• Directed by Toshihiro Iijima
• Written by Kitao Chiba
• Produced by Hajime Tsuburaya
• Music by Toru Fuyuki
• Cinematography by Yuzo Inagaki
• Special Effects by Teruyoshi Nakano

U.S. Release
Daigoro vs. Goliath has never received an official release in any form in the United States. However, the fansub group Hi no Tori translated the film into English in 2011.

DVD and Blu-ray Releases
Though Daigoro vs. Goliath is not available on Blu-ray, an HD version can be rented or purchased on the Japanese version of Amazon Video.