A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
Practical Effects
The Dogora puppet looks like sentient cotton candy and it's glorious.
Direction
Honda somehow makes diamond thieves sympathetic before cosmic annihilation.
Director
Ishirō Honda
Robert Dunham
Mark Jackson
Yōsuke Natsuki
Inspector Komei
Yōko Fujiyama
Masayo
Hiroshi Koizumi
Kirino
Susumu Fujita
General Iwasa
Jun Tazaki
Chief Inspector
Nobuo Nakamura
Doctor Matakata
Seizaburō Kawazu
Gangster Boss
Akiko Wakabayashi
Gang Moll
Hideyo Amamoto
Maki the Safecracker
Yoshibumi Tajima
Gangster
Nadao Kirino
Gangster
Akira Wakamatsu
Gangster
Yutaka Nakayama
Floating Drunk/Coal truck assistant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dogora's design was inspired by deep-sea comb jellies—Toho's effects team studied aquarium footage for the translucent, pulsing movement.
Released during Japan's economic boom, the diamond obsession reads as satire of nouveau riche materialism getting literally devoured by forces beyond control.
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