Ishiro Honda, director of the kaju eiga (giant monster) masterpiece GODZILLA, helms the unusual and comic DOGORA. Honda intended the film as a satire of the gangster and monster films that were extremely popular in Japan during the 1960s. Around the world, diamonds and coal are disappearing without a trace, much to the consternation of the authorities and detectives investigating the vanishings. A vast criminal conspiracy is suspected, but little do the governments of the world suspect that something far stranger is at work: DOGORA, a giant, transparent, jellyfish-like monster from outer space that feeds on the element of carbon. Can the armies and scientists of the world defeat DOGORA before it ingests all of the carbon on Earth--including the entirety of mankind?