Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Tornado Monsters

Japan Release: 1971
Running Time:
48 minutes

Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Tornado Monsters


Japanese Title

帰ってきたウルトラマン竜巻怪獣の恐怖
[Kaettekita Urutoraman Tatsumaki Kaiju no Kyofu]

Distributor: Production:

Toho
Tsuburaya Productions / TBS

When the Kaijin runs into a drifting sea monster, its presence strikes fear into the few that survived the creature's sudden attack. With the captain stunned in permanent shock, Go and MAT investigate a folk song tied to a pair of mysterious monsters known as Seamons and Seagorath. During which, Seamons makes landfall and falls under assault by the SDF, triggering the wrath of Seagorath. With an impending tsunami converging on Tokyo, Ultraman must rise to the occasion to save countless lives and confront the tornado monsters...

Live Action Science Fiction Kaiju

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Titles

International Title

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Initial US Title

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Alternate Titles

Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Tornado Monsters
[Literal translation]

 


Monsters

Seagoras
Seagoras
Seamons
Seamons



Aliens, SDF & Misc.

Jet VTOL
MAT Arrow 1
Sub VTOL
MAT Arrow 2
Type 61 Tank
Type 61 Tank

Staff

Cast

Directed by Yoshiharu Tomita
Writing credits Shozo Uehara
Produced by Hajime Tsuburaya, Susumu Saito, Yoji Hashimoto
Music by Toru Fuyuki
Cinematography by Kiyoshi Suzuki
Film Editing by Yoshihiro Yanagawa
Production Design by Yoshimasa Kuriyama
Director of Special Effects Kazuo Sagawa
Hideki Go Jiro Dan
Katsushiro Kato, MAT Captain Nobuo Tsukamoto
Takeshi Minami Shunsuke Ikeda
Ippei Ueno Hatashi Mitsushi
Yuriko Oka Mika Katsuragi
Fumio Kishida Ken Nishida
Aki Sakata Rumi Sakakibara
Ken Sakata Shin Kishida
Jiro Sakata Kawaguchi Hideki
Takamura, Captain Akiji Kobayashi
Yoko Takamura Keiko Nishiyama
Goichiro Funayama Hiroshi Hasegawa
Kobacho Akagi Hiroyuki Nishimoto
Self-Defense Forces Commander Junichiro Mukai
Kijima Munemaru Koda
Kawasaki, Steering Mechanic Eiichi Kikuchi
Kaijin Round Sailor Shoei Tojo
Narrator Akira Nagoya

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Background and Trivia

  • Featured as part of the Toho Champion Festival during the winter of 1971. Was screened alongside: The Little Match Girl, Hutch the Honeybee: With a Wish Upon a Forget-Me-Not, Inakappe Taishou: I Don't Want to Dance/The Clairvoyant, and a re-edit of Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964).
  • Footage is standard ratio blow-up of Episodes 13 and 14 of Return of Ultraman, "Terror of the Tsunami Monsters, Tokyo's Big Pinch" and "Terror of the Two Giant Monsters, Tokyo in a Giant Tornado" respectively.