Toho had planned to shoot this film on location in Sri Lanka, but had to forgo that ( and scale back on production costs ) because they ended up paying RKO roughly $ 200, 000 ( US ) for the rights to the King Kong character.

Godzilla Vs. Megalon was originally planned as a non-Godzilla film, a solo vehicle for Jet Jaguar, which was the result of a contest Toho had for children in mid-to-late 1972.

Toho had no intention of permanently ending the Godzilla series.

After this, Toho had the idea of making Godzilla vs. Mechani-Kong, but Kazuki Omori feared that this would ultimately violate Turner's copyright.

Prior to New World Pictures ' release of the film, Toho had the film dubbed in Hong Kong.

Toho also had a theater in San Francisco and opened a theater in New York in 1963.

Kurosawa refused to shoot the peasant village at Toho Studios and had a complete set constructed on the Izu Peninsula.

At this time, a large number of Toho actors, after a prolonged strike, had left to form their own company, Shin Toho.

The Toho dub ( named in Japan " Super Spacefortress Macross ") had been created for international sales, and used Hong Kong and Australian actors.

Toho, the creators of Godzilla, also had their hands in creating the Chouseishin Series of programs from 2003 to 2006.

While only a few hundred were built, Prince Motors had a very aggressive product placement group and they can be seen ( along the company's mainstream models ) in many Toho films of the early 1960s.

A fan of the original Kozure Ōkami films, Weisman had obtained the rights for $ 50, 000 from the American office of Toho Studios.

Years later in 1962, Cooper had found out that RKO was licensing the character through John Beck to Toho studios in Japan for a film project called King Kong vs Godzilla.

Director Shūsuke Kaneko's original script originally had Anguirus, Varan and Baragon defend Japan against Godzilla, but Toho told him to replace the former two with the more popular King Ghidorah and Mothra, as Anguirus and Varan were not considered bankable enough to guarantee a box-office hit.

After the film was completed, Toho had their international versions of the movie dubbed in Hong Kong.

* As has been done since the early 1970s, Toho had the international version of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla dubbed in Hong Kong.

Any hopes Toho had of Godzilla: Final Wars ending the series with a box office bang were crushed when the film opened in Japan on December 4, 2004.

Was removed due to the fact that Atari had no idea if her final design was approved by Toho, was then locked, however it was discovered that Simon Strange had left her in the game still and that she can still be used via Hacking, so he was ordered to removed her completely prior to release, all that remains of Biollante is her Weapon Animation for her Acid Spray.

Toho had always been interested in the Frankenstein character, as years earlier producer Tomoyuki Tanaka had originally commissioned a film called Frankenstein vs. the Human Vapor ( フランケンシュタイン対ガス人間-Furankenshutain tai Gasu Ningen ), with a draft written by Kimura.

Although Eiji had strong political power at Toho, he and the company were at odds with each other until his death in 1970.

He expanded his technique greatly during this period and earned several awards, but did not stay long at Toho.

Because of its long association with Toho, UPA is better known to cult-movie fans today as Toho's American distributor rather than a pioneer of animated cartoons, but the legacy of UPA is an important chapter in the history of American animation.

In 1992 ( to coincide with the company's 60th anniversary ), Toho wanted to remake this film as Godzilla vs. King Kong as part of the Heisei series of Godzilla films.

When Toho was originally involved, they wanted a love story between an American boy and a Korean girl.

Toho wanted to have King Kong fight their own monster Godzilla instead of the Frankenstein giant in the original story and, after working out a deal with Beck as well as RKO, the copyright holder of King Kong at the time, produced King Kong vs Godzilla.

Toho had wanted to use King Kong again after this film.

Kawakita stated, Toho wanted to pit Godzilla against King Kong because King Kong vs. Godzilla was very successful.

Next, Toho thought to make Godzilla vs. Mechani-Kong but, ( according to Koichi Kawakita ), it was discovered that obtaining permission even to use the likeness of King Kong would be difficult.

After attempts to make another Hedorah movie failed, Toho begun work on a very different project with Godzilla vs. the Space Monsters: Earth Defense Directive.

Toho ended the series to make way for the American Godzilla film that was ultimately produced in 1998.

This is because they convinced 20th Century Fox to make up a shortfall in the film's budget when the original producers, Toho Studios, could not afford to complete the film.

Toho thought the story would not make any sense because the JSDF are trying to get Godzilla ( who was still a villain at this point ) to kill Frankenstein because they are afraid Frankenstein will start eating humans.

These included Mothra, King Ghidorah, Rodan, and other monsters from the Toho shared universe as well as fresh new monsters to make appearances in later issues.

It was also the first of two Japanese made films featuring the King Kong character ( or rather, its Toho Studios counterpart ) and also the first time both King Kong and Godzilla appeared on film in color and widescreen.

Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was planning on working on other projects at this point in time such as a new version of a fairy tale film script called Kaguyahime ( Princess Kaguya ), but he postponed those to work on this project with Toho instead since he was such a huge fan of King Kong.

This approach was favoured by Toho and to this end, King Kong vs. Godzilla has a much lighter tone than the previous two Godzilla films and contains a great deal of humor within the action sequences.

While the ending of the film does look somewhat ambiguous, Toho confirmed that King Kong was indeed the winner in their 1962 / 63 English-language film brochure Toho Films Vol.

When John Beck sold the King Kong vs. Prometheus script to Toho ( which became King Kong vs. Godzilla ), he was given exclusive rights to produce a version of the film for release in non-Asian territories.

Toho was eager to build a series around their version of King Kong but were refused by RKO.

The film was originally written for King Kong ( called operation robinson crusoe: king kong vs ebirah ), but Toho switched Kong with another popular character at the time, Godzilla.

Toho would later use Kong for King Kong Escapes.

Toho eventually settled for Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.

The complete international English version of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah ( except the opening Toho logos ) was released on video in the United Kingdom by Manga Video on June 5, 1995.

After the success of the previous year's Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, Toho decided to bring back their second most famous creation Mothra into the new series.

The majority of the film's soundtrack consists of recycled cues from previous Toho films such as Frankenstein Conquers the World, Atragon, King Kong Escapes and several other Godzilla films.

Then, Toho released King Kong vs. Godzilla in 1962.

Rankin / Bass also attempted live-action productions, such as 1967's sequel King Kong Escapes, a co-production with Toho ; 1976's The Last Dinosaur ; 1978's The Bermuda Depths ; and 1983's The Sins of Dorian Gray.

Dumile went by the alias King Geedorah, a three-headed golden dragon space monster, modeled after King Ghidorah, the Toho movie monster who was a three-headed dragon that often battled Godzilla.

* King Kong vs. Godzilla ( 1962 )-A film produced by Toho Studios in Japan, it brought the titular characters to life via detailed rubber and fur costumes, and presented both characters for the first time in color.

* King Kong Escapes ( 1967 )-Another Toho film ( co-produced with Rankin / Bass ) in which King Kong faces both a mechanical double, dubbed Mechani-Kong, and a giant theropod dinosaur known as Gorosaurus ( who would appear in Toho's Destroy All Monsters the next year ).