King Kong Appears in Edo is Kaiju film released in Japan in 1938.

An unofficial and enigmatic Japanese-made monster/period piece by studio Zenkatsu in which King Kong attacks medieval Edo (the former name of Tokyo), it was one of Japan's first kaiju (giant monster) films, predating Godzilla by sixteen years. Although inaccurate to its historical setting, some Caligari-esque expressionistic buildings were added for Kong to climb. The film is now completely lost after either the atomic bombing in Japan or the Kanto Earthquake.

Fuminori Ohashi, who would later create the suit for Godzilla in the original 1954 film, created the ape suit and special effects for this film. He explained, "The first model making to be counted as "special art direction" in Japanese cinema was a giant gorilla which I did for the movie King Kong Appears in Edo fifty years ago. It was also the first movie to feature certain kinds of special effects."

Kaiju Movies
Godzilla films	Godzilla (1954 film) | Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | Godzilla Raids Again | King Kong vs. Godzilla | Mothra vs. Godzilla | Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster | Invasion of Astro-Monster | Ebirah, Horror of the Deep | Son of Godzilla | Destroy All Monsters | All Monsters Attack | Godzilla vs. Hedorah | Godzilla vs. Gigan | Godzilla vs. Megalon | Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla | Terror of Mechagodzilla | The Return of Godzilla | Godzilla vs. Biollante | Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle For Earth | Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II | Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla | Godzilla vs. Destoroyah | Godzilla 2000: Millennium | Godzilla vs. Megaguirus | Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack | Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla | Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. | Godzilla: Final Wars | Godzilla (2014 film)
King Kong Films	King Kong (1933 film) | Japanese King Kong | King Kong appears in Edo | Son Of Kong | King Kong vs. Godzilla | King Kong Escapes | King Kong (1976 film) | King Kong Lives | King Kong (2005 film)
Mothra Films	Mothra (1961 film) | Rebirth of Mothra | Rebirth of Mothra II | Rebirth of Mothra III
Misc. Films	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | Rodan (1956 film) | The Giant Claw (1957 film) | The Mysterians | Varan the Unbelievable | H-Man (Film) | Gorgo (film) | Gorath | Atragon | Matango | Dogora (film) | Frankenstein vs. Baragon | War of the Gargantuas | Gappa the Triphibian Monster | Space Amoeba | Daigoro vs. Goliath | Planet of The Dinosaurs | The Lost World | Godzilla (1998 film) | Garuda (film) | The X from Outer Space | Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus | Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus | Negadon: The Monster from Mars | The Host | Them! | Tarantula | Dragon Wars | Cloverfield | Monsters

• NOTE: There is a video on Youtube that claims to be the lost footage of King Kong Appears in Edo. While this is not yet confirmed, it can be assumed that it's fake due to its high quality for a 1938 film, and the most obvious fact that he used footage from a movie named Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century.

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