kongsploitation

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This week for Toku Tuesday we are delving into a truly bizarre subgenre in the world of giant monsters, Kongsploitation. This is a subgenre of a subgenre since Man-in-a-Gorilla-Suit is a subgenre all of its own, but this moniker specifically refers to giant ape movies that are trying to steal the iconography of King Kong.

The Weird World of Kongsploitation: From 1933 to 2020 – Scriptophobic Andrew Roebuck 2021
However – when an official Kong film (or two) is imminent, imitators are never far behind. Kongsploitation as a cinematic phenomenon can be traced back to the earliest days of the great ape’s theatrical endeavours. Wasei King Kong (1933) is a now-lost three-reel comedy short directed by Torajiro Saito, distributed by Shochiku to promote the Japanese release of the original Kong.

The Mighty B-Kong Men: An Introduction to Kongsploitation - Arrow Films Steven Sloss 2022