#atragon 1963

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Manda vs. Atragon in Atragon (1963)

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2024

By Josh Ryals

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Behind the scenes with manda on the set of Atragon (1963)

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A lobby card for Atragon (1963).

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Manda - a sea dragon kaiju that served as the guardian of the undersea empire of Mu. It made its first debut in Toho's 1963 film, Atragon.

WOOPS...I haven't shared much Showa era kaiju art in awhile....

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Gotengo, debuting in Atragon (1963) and appearing in several kaiju films

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For reference:

Gotengo (1963)

(USS Argo, 2019)

(Both images are taken from Google Image search)

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Atragon 1963

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if i streamed atragon (1963) would you guys watch be honest. her ⬇️

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Tokutember 2024 Day 9: The aptly-named "9th Wonder of the World"; the WWII-built supership, the Goten, otherwise known as ATRAGON (Toho; 1963)! This ship was remade for Toho's 1977 STAR WARS-style extravaganza, THE WAR IN SPACE.

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ATRAGON 1963 Japanese movie the flying submarine Kaitei gunkan

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Atragon

Atragon (1963) starring Ken Uehara, Jun Tazaki In Aragon, strange occurrences are taking place all around the world. It turns out that the Mu Empire, an ancient underground civilization that disappeared 12,000 years earlier, are responsible. They are plotting to reclaim the surface world, with their advanced technology. As the attacks by the Muans increase the surface world has only one hope to…

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Atragon (1963)

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Setting up Manda's battle with the Gotengo from Atragon (1963).

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"The two who were kidnapped were both civil engineers, and experts in geologic faults. Was it coincidence? Anyway..." *Earthquake immediately hits*

I liked the part with the explosive dragon-release button.

Atragon sounds a lot cooler in theory than it actually is, which is not to say that it was bad. It's just that the idea of using a hyper-advanced submarine to fight off a lost-atlantis style underwater civilisation's attempted conquest of the planet is one hell of a premise to live up to.

In practice, most of this movie was people talking about interesting things instead of showing them happen. At one point we're shown some newspaper headlines that include "VENICE DESTROYED" and "HONG KONG IN RUINS", before it cut back to people in an office talking again.

One of the plot-lines was that some creep photographer guys were stalking a random woman they saw, so they could convince her to do erotic modelling for them, or something? She later fell in love with one of them, after he wooed her off-screen, I guess. Also, did I mention these characters were introduced at a bikini photo shoot, down by the docks, at midnight?

There were a few neat action scenes, and plenty of model ships and buildings blowing apart or bursting into flames. I particularly enjoyed any time the submarine actually did anything because, despite being a submarine, it flies through the air like a spaceship, and sprays a gas that instantly freezes anything it touches.

The most realistic part of the movie was when the UN held an emergency meeting to discuss the evil underwater empire's threat, and convened it ten minutes later without doing anything. Although they did later send their most advanced submarine, Red Satan, to check things out.

There was a great scene where a parcel arrived at a police station and a guy pointed out that it could be a letter bomb. As a precaution, they carried it about one whole metre over to a desk before they opened it. Thus neutralising any potential threat.

A lot of talking, occasionally punctuated by monsters, lasers, and explosions. Good entertainment.

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