It's 1870, in China.
The land is torn by petty warlords, and the people suffer.
Amid these isolated valleys and lonely mountains comes a traveller, a fugitive.
Victor von Frankenstein had built a man, and then made that man into a monster.
Now he would set out to build a monster, and make of it the salvation of mankind.
Here in this land of ancient secrets and dark mysteries, he would revive the dragons from their ancient slumber.
He would bake up Leviathan from scratch, build Behemoth by hand, raise Gargantua from boyhood.
His necessary materials being the ancient corpses of prehistoric monstrosities, he sent agents throughout the land.
They dug up rotted abonimations and sought out forgotten parchments of lost ages.
To finance his operation, he had "liberated" a small warlord's holdings, consolidated under his own protection.
When his Pi-hsieh escapes, and destroys a village, two brothers kill the beast, and set out to find its maker.
Meanwhile, the Baron's original creation has learned of his activities, and come to the East to stop him. Permanantly.
Monsters of Frankenstein AKA Frankenstein in Asia (and Beyond):
The Promethean
Lion Dogs
Bixie (Pi-hsieh)
Qilin (Kirin)
Tian Lu
Pi Ya
Army of Giants
Ghost of the Assam Giant
Gigantopithecus
Gargantua
Pantagruel
Behemoth
Leviathan
Tsiolkovsky Spheres or Metallic Dirigibles
Atomic Amazons of Venus
Giant-Men of Mars
Titles:
Frankenstein's Monsters AKA Frankenstein and the Two Brothers AKA Frankenstein and the Legendary Monsters of China
Frankenstein's Giants AKA Frankenstein and the Army of Giants AKA Frankenstein: Pirate Captain of the South China Seas
Frankenstein's Horrors AKA Giant Monsters of Frankenstein AKA Frankenstein and the End of the World AKA Nemo the Hero
Frankenstein and the Queen of Venus AKA Frankenstein Goes to Mars AKA Frankenstein Saves the World
Style: Hammer Horror mashup with Toho Tokosatsu, Tsubaraya Productions, Corman Studios & Shaw Brothers Wuxia.
Peter Cushing as Victor von Frankenstein AKA Gwythyr Odenwald.
Vincent Price as Robur of the Skies.
Boris Karloff as Prince Dakkar AKA Nemo the Dreamer.
Joan Bennett as the Rocket Queen of Venus, Hadazsp the Magnificent.
Jane Fonda as Princess Abraxia.
Raquel Welch as Frankenstein's Daughter, Vixtrix Odenwald.
Christopher Lee as The Promethean.
Gordon Liu as Golden Lion.
Jimmy Wang as Silver Arm.
Bruce Lee as Inspector Yi.
Directed by Terence Stamp.
Monster animation by Ray Harryhausen.
Puppet animation by Gerry Anderson.
Based on a production design by Roger Corman.
Tokosatsu special effects and monster direction by Eiji Tsuburaya.
Action direction by Chang Cheh, wuxia and martial arts choreography by Lau Kar-Leung.
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