Invasion of Astro-Monster

Invasion of Astro-Monster (怪獣大戦争, 1965) is a Japanese sci-fi kaiju film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ishiro Honda — the man who started the whole genre — and one of the first Toho productions to cast an American actor, Nick Adams, in a leading role.

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji reach the newly discovered Planet X and find its people living underground, hunted by Monster Zero — three-headed King Ghidorah under a different name. The Xiliens ask Earth to loan them Godzilla and Rodan in exchange for a medical cure. It sounds like a fair deal. It is not. The film marked Toho's deliberate push toward international audiences in the mid-1960s, blending Cold War anxieties with the studio's signature monster spectacle. Stream Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) online on iFILM.