Possible merge - Dinosaur Fights Against Cosmic-Men [1969]

[J.J.Hayden]

Hello all, hope it's as sunny for you as it is here.

A friend of mine on the KFF has been researching the film Dinosaur Fights Against Cosmic-Men [1969] and is organising some info that can be added to the HKMDB for it. But he also suspects that there is a duplicate page for it on the HKMDB under the title of Dragon Prince [1969]. Having a quick look over the data, it seems the he is correct and that these pages should be merged. If nobody can present any information that counters this theory, I will merge the pages in the next few weeks.

Dinosaur Fights Against Cosmic-Men [1969]
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=18595&display_set=eng

Dragon Prince [1969]
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=18596&display_set=eng

Cheers

[Chen Hung Lieh]

龍王子 Dragon Prince:
I don't have this movie, but I found a Taiwanese release date (February 7, 1969) and a Taiwanese newspaper ad that looks more clear than the HK newspaper ad. Just like "Cosmic Men", it confirms a Gorilla/KingKong, a dinosaur, and a boy with same weapon and clothing.


神龍大戰宇宙人 Dinosaur Fights Against Cosmic-Men:
(re-)Released in Taiwan, on December 19, 1970, newspaper advertisement shows the same images like the poster in HKMDB:


Both ads show the smiling male actor (Wu Chia-Chi?) in the exact same pose, another sign that both are from the same movie.

方光德 Fang Kuang-Te:
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml? ... ay_set=eng
Obviously the chinese Alias of actor 野村光徳 Nomura Mitsunori:
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml? ... ay_set=eng

高金福 Kao Chin-Fu:
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml? ... ay_set=eng
Probably another Chinese Alias of a Japanese actor, but I don't know who (because Chinese Aliases of Japanese actors often contain a 福). The "Music" credits probably belong to someone else.

[J.J.Hayden]

Awesome stuff, thanks for the additional info. I had noticed that the posters/ads from both films shared quite a few things, but these make it all the more clear.

Thank you for confirming that Fang Kuang-te is an alias for Nomura, I was pretty sure myself, just waiting for more info. I too suspected that Kao Chin-fu is likely an alias for another Japanese actor, due to these two films being their only credits, as I also believe that there are two Kao Chin-fu's, the one in this films, and another that does music, this would explain the 10yr gap and change in career

I may have to make some time to go through the Japanese names (where possible) and see if any have some matching kanji, like with Nomura.

Thanks again.

[J.J.Hayden]

I was waiting a bit to see if any counter evidence came to light, but it seems that forgot to follow up as I had so much on it must've slipped my mind. Soz
So I've now merged the page for Dinosaur Fights Against Cosmic-Men onto that of Dragon Prince.
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=18596&display_set=eng


I moved over all the images.

I added that it: Uses footage from the Japanese TV series Monster Prince directed by Tsuchiya Keinosuke, which aired on Fuji TV from the 2nd October 1967 to the 25th March 1968.
I re-arranged the credit order on Dragon Price to match the of the available credit images. I also moved over the character names.
As suggested by Chen Hung Lieh, I've merged Fang Kuang-Te into Nomura Mitsunori and added the names as aliases.
And as he suggested, I've split Kao Chin-fu into two pages, one for this actor here and another page for the music guy.
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=138177&complete_credits=1&display_set=eng

I also added the release date's Chen Hung Lieh provided, the initial Taiwanese release date and the re-release in 1970 (noted at the bottom of the page). Perhaps Chen Hung Lieh would like to add the images of those news ads he found?

Data moved from Dinosaur Fights Against Cosmic-Men to Dragon Prince, most of it was the same so didn't need repeating:
aliases: 神龍大戰宇宙人 / Dinosaur Fights Against Cosmic-Men / Indonesian VHS video title 恐龍王 / Indonesian VHS video title: King Of Dinosaurs
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Assistant director: Lee Tso-nam
Cinematographer: Lu Tian-yong
Lighting: Chuang Sung-tang
Editor: Woo Si-chun
Foley: Chou Wan-sheng

These were the images and character ID's my mate Sourmilk78 provided to me for the benefit of the HKMDB, so many thanks to him.
Chiang Ching
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=3332&display_set=eng
--- Sao The's mother

Wu Chia-chi
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=3933&display_set=eng
--- Dr. Wu Qingjun, Sao The's father (Dr Wu Tien Jing)

Nomura Mitsunori
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=137884&display_set=eng
--- Sao The (Monster Prince) [MONSTER PRINCE footage]

Lin Lin
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=13555&display_set=eng
--- Ms. Li

Tai Liang
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=14635&display_set=eng
--- Dr. Li (Dr. Lie)

Sorry it's taken so long to get this done, but at least we got there in the end.