''Croczilla'' (also known as ''Million Dollar Crocodile'' or ''The Crocodile'') is a 2012 Chinese

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directed by

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. The film stars

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, Guo Tao,

Lam Suet Lam Suet (; born 1964), or Lin Xue, is a Hong Kong film actor. Life and career Lam was born in Tianjin, and came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979 to receive inheritance money left by his grandfather. Soon after, all the money had been squander ...

and is about a group of people seeking a crocodile that has swallowed a million yuan. The film was released on June 8, 2012 and was promoted in some media as China's first monster movie.

Plot

The film tells the story of an eight meter long crocodile on the rampage in Hangzhou. Xiao befriends Amao, a 36-foot crocodile, who lives on his father's crocodile sanctuary. Soon his father is forced to sell the crocodiles to a gangster who plans to use them for high priced meals. The story begins as the crocodile is released, swallows a fortune won by a local woman who forces the police to hunt it, and begins to terrorize the local town.

Release

''Croczilla'' was shown as a "work-in-progress" print at Marché du Film at the

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in May 2012. Australian sales firm Odin's Eye Entertainment picked up the rights to ''Croczilla''. The film was released in China on June 8, 2012. ''Croczilla'' was the opening film at the 36th

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