Agon: The Atomic Dragon
Limited Series 1968 · 4 eps
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Agon: The Atomic Dragon is a miniseries produced by Nippon Television sometime in 1964, and later aired on Fuji TV from January 2 to January 5, 1968. Internationally, the series is known as Agon: Atomic Dragon. The series was re-released and re-edited as a condensed 96-minute feature-length film in the mid-1990s by Toho.
Created by Shinichi Sekizawa
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★ 7.21961
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★ 7.01964
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Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
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★ 7.01974
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★ 7.01963
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★ 6.81965
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★ 6.71964
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★ 6.41967
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★ 6.41972
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★ 6.31966
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Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
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