Kingu Kongu tai Gojira

To promote the film, Toho released "interviews" with King Kong and Godzilla in which the monsters acted like sumo wrestlers preparing for their bout against each other.

In this promotion Godzilla was quoted as saying: "seven years has passed since I rose from the bottom of the southern seas and raved about in Japan, leaving destruction behind wherever I crawled. It is most gratifying for me to have the privilege of seeing you again after breaking through an iceberg in the arctic ocean where I was buried. At the thought of my engagement with King Kong from America I feel my blood boil and flesh dance. I am now applying myself to vigorous training day and night to capture the world monster-championship from King Kong."

In response King Kong said "I may be the stranger to the younger people here, but have quite a number of fighting adventures to my credit. I will fight to the last ditch in the forthcoming encounter with Mr. Godzilla, for my title is at stake... Hearing that the world-renowned special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya is to act as referee I am going to return to the screen in high spirits."

A version created for the Champion festival re-edited and shorten the film's run-time, supervised by Honda

Edited into King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)