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The Whale God
The Whale God
by Kōichirō Uno
by Kōichirō Uno
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- July 15, 1962 (Japan)
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The Whale God (Japanese: 鯨神, Hepburn: Kujira Gami), alternatively known as Killer Whale, is a 1962 Japanese tokusatsu (kaiju) film produced by Daiei Film based on the 1961 Akutagawa Prize–winning novel of the same name by Kōichirō Uno. It was presumably inspired by the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
It was the company's first kaiju film to be officially released, being simultaneously developed along with the scrapped Giant Sea Demon and Giant Sea Demon Dagora, the precursors of Giant Horde Beast Nezura which itself became a Gamera predecessor.