Trivia / Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

• B-Team Sequel: This was the first Godzilla movie directed by Jun Fukuda, and the first since Godzilla Raids Again eleven years earlier not to be directed by Ishir⁠ō Honda. It was also the first in just as long to be scored by someone other than Akira Ifukube, with Masaru Sato returing to the series after working on Raids Again. This film is a turning point after which Honda and Ifukube's involvement with the series would become more erratic, with Fukuda largely taking over directorial duties and music being handled by a rotating roster of composers for the remainder of the Showa era.
• Dueling Dubs:
  • An international dub recorded at Frontier Enterprises in Tokyo, featured on the British VHS release by Polygram, Sony's DVD release, and Kraken's Blu-ray and DVD releases.
  • An American dub recorded at Titan Productions in New York, used for the North American television version and the various VHS releases sourced from it.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For a while, the only DVD release for this movie from Sony Entertainment was out of print. Fortunately, to coincide with the release of the 2014 remake of the original Gojira, Kraken Releasing have re-released Ebirah and two other Showa Godzilla movies on Blu-Ray and DVD.
  • The now "rejected" Titan dub is only available on VHS releases.
  • The international dub has also fallen into this as well after Criterion announced that it wasn’t included on the Showa-Era Films set.
• The Other Darrin: Mothra's fairies, originally played by the Peanuts, have been replaced by the Pair Bambi.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Akihiko Hirata as the evil Captain Ryuui
  • Akira Takarada in a rare antihero role as the slick criminal Yoshimura
• Prop Recycling : The Giant Condor puppet started life as the Rodan puppet from Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and went through modifications in the show Ultra Q as the bird monsters Litra and Larugeus. It's also Hilarious in Hindsight as when the puppet was Litra, it fought the monster Gomess who was created from the '64 Godzilla suit. The '64 Godzilla was later reused again as Jirass in Ultraman with the head of the Godzilla suit from this film.
• What Could Have Been: King Kong was originally going to be the star monster of the film and was going to be the one that fought Ebirah and Mothra. However, tension arose between Toho and Rankin-Bass over the direction of the film until Rankin/Bass finally quit the project, taking the rights to Kong with them. As a result, Godzilla was used instead. To add onto the Mythos, nearly all of Kong's mannerisms and role was recycled into Godzilla in the film. This is because this tension happened so late into production that they couldn't change it much.

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