Talk:Wasei Kingu Kongu

There does seem to be evidence that this film existed so I've removed the prod, but lack of notability could still be argued. It might be worth considering AfD to gather a wider base of opinions. andy (talk) 22:14, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, info on this film is even harder to come by than King Kong Appears in Edo. At least Edo had quotes from Fuminori Ohashi who worked on that film confirming his work. But from a Western standpoint there is very little info in regards to this earlier film. It was mentioned in Kinemo Junpo magazine (the oldest and most respected movie magazine in Japan where the release date was obtained) and was covered in this great site from Japan that unfortunatly is no longer online http://www.tcat.ne.jp/~oguchi/Ape%20Movie%201900-1939.html

That site (from Japan) covered the history of ape films from 1901 through 1939.

The film was also mentioned in a 1978 Japanese book based on Japanese Science Fiction and Special Effects film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:King_Kong_Appears_in_Edo#Japanese_book_in_hand

August Ragone mentioned it in his book on Eiji Tsuburaya as well Ray Morton mentioned it in his book on King Kong. (I own both tomes). Ragone even participated in an intersting discussion here

http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/22098/t/Japanese-Horror-Films-BEFORE-Godzilla.html?page=1

So with that 1978 Japanese book and Ragone's and Morton's books we could add 3 more cites.Giantdevilfish (talk) 00:49, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

• Yes. Searching for "和製キングコング" yields a lot of hits - if it's a hoax it's a damned good one. I think we can call it notable because the coverage indicates that it was important in the early days of the Japanese monster movie genre, so I'm removing the notability tag. andy (talk) 08:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

I added the cites. The Japanese book from 1979 that is mentioned in that link above is mentioned here

http://littlewing2007.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/09/post-f508.html

Giantdevilfish (talk) 16:39, 26 June 2010 (UTC)