The Undersea Humanoid Ragon

Ultra Q, episode 20

Information

Airdate

May 15, 1966

Directed by

Samaji Nonagase

Written by

Hiroyasu Yamaura
Samaji Nonagase
Shoji Otomo

Special Effects Directed by

Toru Matoba

Continuity
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The Undersea Humanoid Ragon (海底原人ラゴン, Kaitei Genjin Ragon) is the twentieth episode of Ultra Q.

Plot[]

Jun and Yuriko travel to the island of Iwanejima to investigate undersea volcanic activity. A young marine geologist, Dr. Ishii, has theorized that the entire island may soon be in danger of submerging beneath the sea. Ishii's theories, however, are met with indifference by the island's population, which relies on the local fishing trade to exist.

When a mysterious object is retrived by one of the fishing boats, a strange humaniod sea creature called Ragon comes ashore and terrorizes the village at night. Dr. Ishii wonders if the ancient superstitions regarding a primitive race of beings called Ragon, which are believed to live beneath the sea, could be true.

The creature enters Ishii's house, frightening the doctor's younger sister, Fumiko, before leaving. Jun notes that Ragon was momentarily drawn to the music from a transistor radio, which appeared to calm its hostile nature. Jun uses the radio to lure the creature to the edge of a cliff, where a sudden tremor causes it to lose its footing and fall to the rocks below. The escalating tremors indicate that Ishii's theories are true; but when the villagers try to leave the island, their path is blocked by a second Ragon, which surfaces in the harbor.

The strange object turns out to be an egg, which hatches a baby Ragon. Furniko delivers the infant creature to its parent, who gently takes the baby and returns peacefully to the sea. Arriving in a helicopter, Ippei rescues Jun and Yuriko and the villagers flee the island in their fishing boats. Iwanejima is tom apart by a massive quake and vanishes beneath the waves, a frightening omen of what may one day happen to Japan.

Cast[]

Jun Manjome (万城目淳, Manjōme Jun): Kenji Sahara (佐原健二, Sahara Kenji)
Yuriko Edogawa (江戸川由利子, Edogawa Yuriko): Hiroko Sakurai (桜井浩子, Sakurai Hiroko)
Ippei Togawa (戸川一平, Togawa Ippei): Yasuhiko Saijo (西條康彦, Saijō Yasuhiko)
Deskworker Seki (関デスク, Seki Desuku): Yoshibumi Tajima (田島義文, Tajima Yoshibumi)
Narrator (ナレーター, Nareta): Koji Ishizaka (石坂浩二, Ishizaka Kōji)

Guest Actors[]

Fumiko Ishii (石井文子, Ishii Fumiko): Megumi Tama (珠めぐみ, Tama Megumi)
Professor Ishii (石井博士, Ishii Hakase): Jiro Ishizaki (石崎二郎, Ishizaki Jirō)
Head of Takayama Fishing Cooperative (高山漁業組合長, Takayama Gyogyo Kumiai Chō): Keizo Sasagawa (笹川恵三, Sasagawa Keizō)
Fisherman Kawasaki (漁師・川崎, Ryōshi Kawasaki): Nobuyuki Katsube (勝部演之, Katsube En'ya)
Drunkard Tachibana (酔漢・立花, Suikan Tachibana): Takashi Ebata (江幡高志, Ebata Takashi)
Fisherman Toshio (漁師・利夫, Ryōshi Toshio): Toshio Kurosawa (黒沢年男, Kurosawa Toshio)
Kenzo (健三): Takashi Kato (加藤隆, Katō Takashi)
Inspector Hayashi (林巡査, Hayashi Junsa): Kamayuki Tsubono (坪野鎌之, Tsubono Kamayuki)
Boy from Fishing Town (漁師町の少年, Ryōshi Machi no Shōnen): Tetsuo Yamamura (山村哲夫, Yamamura Tetsuo)

Suit Actors[]

Ragon (ラゴン): Bin Furuya (古谷敏, Furuya Bin)

Appearances[]

Kaiju[]

Ragon

Home Media[]

Ultra Q Volume 5 features episodes 17-20, and Total Natural Color DVD Volume 6 features episodes 18-21.

Ultra Q Episodes
1. Defeat Gomess! \| 2. Goro and Goroh \| 3. The Gift From Space \| 4. Mammoth Flower \| 5. Peguila is Here! \| 6. Grow Up! Little Turtle \| 7. S.O.S. Mount Fuji \| 8. Terror of the Sweet Honey \| 9. Baron Spider \| 10. The Underground Super Express Goes West \| 11. Balloonga \| 12. I Saw a Bird \| 13. Garadama \| 14. Tokyo Ice Age \| 15. Kanegon's Cocoon \| 16. Garamon Strikes Back \| 17. The 1/8 Project \| 18. The Rainbow's Egg \| 19. Challenge from the Year 2020 \| 20. The Undersea Humanoid Ragon \| 21. Space Directive M774 \| 22. Metamorphosis \| 23. Fury of the South Sea \| 24. The Idol of Goga \| 25. The Devil Child \| 26. Blazing Glory \| 27. The Disappearance of Flight 206 \| 28. Open Up!