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Frankenstein Conquers the World (フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣〈バラゴン〉 - Furankenshutain tai Chitei Kaijû "Baragon") is a tokusatsu kaiju/horror film produced in 1965 by Toho Company Ltd.. This film features a Japanized version of the Frankenstein Monster, who becomes giant-sized to fight a giant subterranean monster, Baragon.

This was also the first of three Toho-produced films to star Hollywood actor Nick Adams, who starred in two other films: Monster Zero and The Killing Bottle. While American critics usually look down at the late actor's appearances in these films, American tokusatsu fans still think Adams to be the best, most charismatic foreign actor to appear in any Japanese genre film.

Synopsis

The prologue is set in World War II, circa 1945. Nazis break into the laboratory of Dr. Reisendorf and confiscate the heart of the Frankenstein Monster, which he was busy experimenting on. The Nazis travel by submarine to the Pacific. The Allied Forces then bomb their submarine, but not before the Nazis pass the heart (contained in a locked chest) to the Imperial Japanese Navy, who take it back to Hiroshima to be experimented on. But just as they were about to begin, Hiroshima was bombed by the Allied Forces, and the heart was lost . . .

20 years later, a savage boy runs rampant in the streets of Japan, catching and devouring small animals such as dogs and rabbits. This comes to the attention of American scientist Dr. James Bowen and his assistants Sueko Togami and Ken'ichiro Kawaji, who investigate, and find him hiding in a cave on a beach, where a mob of outraged villagers had almost caught him. While the strange boy catches media attention and is taken care of by the scientists, another astounding event evades the public's eye . . .

The Former Naval Captain Kawai, who brought the Frankenstein heart to Japan in WWII, was working in an oil factory in Akita Prefecture, when a sudden earthquake shakes the factory and collapses a tower, beneath which he saw the ghastly face of a giant floppy-eared reptile with a glowing horn.

Meanwhile, Dr. Bowen and the scientists find that the strange boy is growing due to intake of protein. Afraid of his strength, the scientists lock and chain the boy in a jail cell, and Sueko, who really cares for him, feeds him some protein food to sustain him. Meanwhile, Dr. Bowen is visited by Kawai, who tells him that the boy could have been mutated from the heart of the Frankenstein Monster, as the boy was seen in Hiroshima more than once before. At Bowen's advice, Dr. Kawaji confers with the aging Dr. Reisendorf in Frankfurt. Reisendorf tells Kawaji of the story of the Frankenstein Monster, and noted of his virtual immortality, due to the intake of protein. He is recommended to cut off the monster's arm or leg, and a new one would grow back. When relating this to his fellow scientists upon his return to Japan, Sueko strongly objects to this method, fearing that nothing may grow back. Even when Bowen suggests that they wait a little longer to think it over, Kawaji tenaciously attempts to sever one of the now-gigantic monster's limbs. He is interrupted by a TV crew, who Kawaji allows to film the monster, whom they enrage by shining bright studio lights at his face. The monster, heretofore known as "Frankenstein," breaks loose and is on the run from the Japanese police. He even has a tender encounter with Sueko on the balcony of her apartment before he has to run away . . .

While Frankenstein is on the run, he travels around to many places, from Okayama (where he eats more animals) to Mount Ibuki, where his primitive childlike activities (throwing trees at birds and trying to trap a wild boar) end in disaster.

But unbeknownst to Bowen and the scientists, Baragon, the monster Kawai saw earlier, goes on a rampage. Tunneling under the earth, he pops out and ravages villages, eating people and animals, and leaving destruction in his wake. People believe this to be Frankenstein's doing, and the misunderstood monster is wrongly hunted down by the military, narrowly escaping. Before Bowen and his assistants have no choice but to dismiss Frankenstein, Kawai returns to tell them that Frankenstein may not be responsible for the disasters; It could be the monster (Baragon) he saw in Akita! He tries to convince the authorities, but to no avail. Kawaji still wishes the scientists luck in finding Frankenstein.

Bowen, Sueko and Kawaji then form a search party and venture into the forest land they believe Frankenstein to be hiding. But Kawaji, to the shock of Bowen and Sueko, then proclaims to kill him, believing that Frankenstein could be dangerous by nature, and not even Sueko could possibly tame him! He intends to blind him with chemical grenades and capture him to recover his heart and brain. Kawaji presses on to find Frankenstein, and instead finds Baragon! Kawaji and Bowen try in vain to stop the monster with the grenades, but it is about to eat Sueko, until Frankenstein comes to the rescue! The cataclysmic battle between the two giant monsters then begins . . .

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Movies - Frankenstein Conquers the World

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