Nezura. Yuasa noted Barugon's birth scene as the scene he "liked best". Additional wires were added to Barugon's head, as the motor inside made it heavy and difficult to lift with a single wire. It took Yuasa and his effects crew all night to film the shots with Barugon passing over a building with people projected inside and the freezing of Osaka, an effect that was deemed expensive. For scenes with Gamera breathing fire, Aragaki was not inside and the suit was held by wires. Propane and gasoline were used for the flames. Wire operations were tasked to effects engineer Haruo Sekia, who found the job difficult due to 20 wires being used during the Iwa battle scene and the materials used to make the suits making them heavy when absorbing water. English versions After the film's completion, Daiei commissioned an English dub from Axis International, in anticipation of a wide theatrical release in the United States like the previous film. The international dub by Axis features the voices of Barry Haigh, Warren Rooke, and Ted Thomas. In 1967, American International Productions Television acquired the syndication rights to the film, as well as Gamera vs. Gyaos and Gamera vs. Viras and chose not to use the international dubs produced for all three films. AIP–TV commissioned a new English dub supervised by Salavtore Billiteri and recorded by the English Language Dubbers Association (ELDA) in Rome, Italy. AIP–TV retitled the film War of the Monsters and removed 12 minutes of footage to fit commercials into a two-hour timeslot and prevent children from growing restless. The export dub by Axis was not widely released until the late 80's, when Sandy Frank Film Syndication released the film, as well as other Gamera titles, on VHS in the United States. Release Theatrical and television Gamera vs. Barugon was theatrically released in Japan on 17 April 1966, on a double bill with Daimajin. The film underperformed at the Japanese box office and was never released theatrically in the United States. While attending screenings, Noriaki Yuasa noticed that children were becoming bored and restless during long scenes without monsters. Yuasa felt that the film lost its core audience and this inspired him to reveal the monsters earlier and consistently in later films. In 1967, the film was acquired by American International Television and released directly to television in early 1968 as War of the Monsters. This broadcast