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The Whale God (鯨神, Kujira Gami), alternatively as Killer Whale, [2] is a 1962 Japanese tokusatsu film [3] produced by Daiei Film based on the 1961 Akutagawa Prize winning novel of the same name by Kōichirō Uno. It was presumably inspired by the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. [4] [5] [6]
In June 1965, William Lechkobit discovered a 22-foot (6.7m) male orca in his floating salmon net that had drifted close to shore near Namu, British Columbia.The orca was sold for $8,000 to Ted Griffin, owner of the Seattle Marine Aquarium; [2] [3] it ultimately cost Griffin much more to transport Namu 450 miles (720 km) south to Seattle.
A killer whale who is a life-long friend to Nanami. In the Japanese version, she dies freeing Al's submersible from an iceberg crevice, which mortally injures her, and her body sinks to the depths of the sea, while Nanami looks on helplessly. In the last episode, "The Shining Circle" her spirit reunites with Nanami and her son via the Luminous ...
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.
A curse cast at the Hour of the Ox (between 1 and 3 in the morning) by a black magic user, with various harmful effects. Ushi-oni The name given to an assortment of ox-headed monsters that appear on beaches and attack those who walk there. Ushi-onna A kimono-clad woman with a cow's head, the opposite of the kudan. Ushirogami
The site's critical consensus reads: "Content to regurgitate bits of better horror movies, Orca: The Killer Whale is a soggy shark thriller with frustratingly little bite." [ 15 ] A contemporary review published by Variety called the film "man-vs-beast nonsense", and lamented that "fine special effects and underwater camera work are plowed ...
School Ghost Stories; Gekijōban Zero; Gemini (1999 film) The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen; The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond; Ghost Cat of Yonaki Swamp; Ghost of Chibusa Enoki; Ghost of Saga Mansion; The Ghost of Yotsuya (Daiei film) The Ghost of Yotsuya (Shintoho film) Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo; Ghost Theater; Ghost Train (2006 film)
Kwaidan (Japanese: 怪談, Hepburn: Kaidan, lit. ' Ghost Stories ') is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi.It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales, mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), for which it is named.