Kaiju Heaven (2026)
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Kaiju Heaven (怪獣天国 Kaijū Tengoku) is a Japanese tokusatsu kaiju comedy film directed by Minoru Kawasaki from a screenplay by him and Nobuyuki Hori. Funded by the Kaiju Heaven Film Partners and produced by the BBB Corporation and Rivertop, it was released in Japanese theaters by Extreme Film on January 23, 2026.[1]
Plot
The film follows Kenta Asatani, a fourth-grade elementary school student who believes in the existence of monsters, and meets a real monster named Mamitorah. Befriending the beast, Mamitorah stays with the Asatani family to help out with Kenta’s father, Hiroyuki, and his record store. One day, a customer named Inaba steals a record, titled “Monster Flamenco,” and plays it, only to be taken over by the monster Bigmon, who awakens monsters hibernating all across the world to destroy the human race. It's up to Mamitorah to confront Bigmon’s grand army, alongside Terra Incognita.
Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Minoru Kawasaki
- Written by Noboyuki Hori, Minoru Kawasaki
- Executive producers Ryo Kasebayashi, Minoru Kawasaki
- Produced by Munenori Kita, Minoru Kawasaki
- Music by Tomoo Misato
- Theme song "Kaiju Boogie-Woogie"
- Performed by Nozomi Nagano
- Lyrics by Minoru Kawasaki
- Arranged and composed by Tomoo Misato
- Cinematography by Masashi Sasaki, Masato Sasaki
- Edited by Yuta Kawasaki
- First assistant director Shingo Amemiya
Cast
- Tomoya Warabino
- Shida Otone
- Hiroto Kuroiwa
- Hitomi Takagi
- Ijiri Okada
- Minami Shinsuke
- Mitsuhiro Sano
- Nozomi Nagano
- Yoko Taniguchi
- Hiroyuki Takano
- Masanori Machida
- Daniel Aguilar
- Tomoko Umeda
Appearances
Monsters
- Mamitorah
- Terra Incognita
- Bigmon
- Cthulhuoid
- Toy's King
- Kanilla
- Persimmon alien
- Bipedal shark
- Grey
- Turtan robot
- Mono
- Ikalla
- Crab alien
- Takolla
- Zamechi
- Alien Mukurita
- Condoroid
- Shachihocorn
- Guilala (toy)
Theatrical releases
Gallery
- Main article: Kaiju Heaven/Gallery.
Trivia
- Mamitorah is an original creation of Japanese toy company Marmit, which has created multiple figures of him since at least the 1990s.
- The film features the monster Terra Incognita's first onscreen appearance in 54 years, since the conclusion of the series Chibikko Special in 1972.
- The horde of giant monsters awakened by Bigmon is composed of characters from Minoru Kawasaki's earlier films: Mono from Kaiju Mono (2016), Takolla, Ikalla, and Kanilla from Monster Seafood Wars (2019), the Turtans' robot from Planet Prince 2021 (2021), Zamechi and Shachihocorn from Super Legend God Hikoza (2022), the persimmon alien, Grey, and crab alien from A UFO Intruder (2023), Alien Mukurita from Den Ace Chaos (2023), the shark from Game of Shark (2024), and Condoroid from Cyborg Tasuke Isshin (2025). A toy of Guilala also appears on a shelf in the Asatanis' record store, likely a nod to Kawasaki's Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008).
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