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Although not strictly depicting a fictional monster (), The Whale God was the first Daiei Film production to feature a rampaging megafauna.It predates the Gamera franchise [note 1] where the successes of Gamera, the Giant Monster in 1965 and Gamera vs. Barugon presumably influenced the sudden increase of Non-Toho kaiju productions and the prosperity of the genre, while the Six-Company ...
Orca (also known as Orca: The Killer Whale) is a 1977 American thriller film directed by Michael Anderson, from a screenplay by Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Donati, and starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn and Robert Carradine.
The Whale is a 2011 documentary film directed by Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds, it tells the story of Luna, a killer whale (orca) living in Nootka Sound, Canada, who was separated from his pod at a young age.
Free Willy is a family drama about an orphan, Jesse, who befriends a young killer whale, Willy, who was separated from his pod and placed in captivity.The film ends with Jesse leading Willy to ...
The United Artists film Namu, the Killer Whale (a.k.a. Namu, My Best Friend) was released in 1966 and 'starred' Namu in a fictional story set in the San Juan Islands. [11] The name "Namu" was also later used as a show-name for different orcas in SeaWorld shows.
Hank Donner is a marine biologist camping and studying the underwater fauna near a Northwest Pacific fishing town. One day, while Hank and his local assistant Deke study a pod of grey whales swimming past the cove where they have set up camp, they witness a pair of fishermen, Joe Clausen and Burt, shooting at a passing group of killer whales.
Orcas, or “killer whales,” can grow up to 27 feet long and weigh as much as six tons. Known as the ocean’s top predator, they’re extremely intelligent, with their own languages of clicks ...
Also known as "killer whales," orcas — the largest members of the dolphin or "toothed whales" family, a suborder of cetaceans — are the only known marine predators of white sharks, ...