Majin, The Monster of Terror

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Majin, the Monster of Terror (1968)

Jeff and Cheryl pray that the mountain god will finally intervene, and once he does, fervently pray that he’ll go away in Majin, the Monster of Terror.

Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Written by Tesuro Yoshida
Produced by Masaichi Nagata for Daiei Studios

Starring:
Miwa Takada as Kozasa Hanabusa
Yoshihiko Aoyama as Tadafumi Hanabusa
Jun Fujimaki as Kogenta Sarumaru
Ryûtarô Gomi as Samansuke Oodate
Ryûzô Shimada as Tadakiyo Hanabusa
Tatsuo Endô as Gunjurô Inugami
Shôsaku Sugiyama as Yusuke Kajiura
Chikara Hashimoto as Hanzo Motogi
Saburô Date as Ippei Chûma
Otome Tsukimiya as Shinobu, The Shrine Maiden
Keiko Kayama as Haruno
Eigorô Onoe as Gosaku
Gen Kimura as Mosuke, Take-bô’s Father
Shizuhiro Deguchi as Take-bô (Take)
Hideki Ninomiya as young Tadafumi  
Masako Morishita as young Kozasa

A Daiei Production released by American International Television as part of 15 New Science-Fiction

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955).