All Monsters Attack (Japanese: ゴジラ・ミニラ・ガバラ オール怪獣大進撃, Hepburn: Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Dai-shingeki, lit.

Godzilla, Minilla, and Gabara: All Monsters Attack) is a 1969 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, written by Shinichi Sekizawa, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka.

The film stars Tomonori Yazaki, Kenji Sahara, and Hideyo Amamoto, with special effects by Honda and Teruyoshi Nakano, and features Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla, Marchan the Dwarf as Minilla, and Yasuhiko Kakuyuki as Gabara.

Ichiro Miki is a highly imaginative but lonely latchkey kid growing up in urban and polluted Kawasaki.

Every day after school, Ichiro is tormented by a gang of bullies led by a child named Sanko Gabara.

After finding some souvenirs (tubes, a headset, and a wallet with someone's [necessarily the suspect's] license), Ichiro leaves the factory after hearing some sirens close by.

Now from his experiences in his dreams, Ichiro learns how to face his fears and fight back, gaining the courage to outwit the thieves just in time for the police, called by Shinpei, to arrive and arrest them.

Despite Destroy All Monsters initially having been planned as the final Godzilla film, not long thereafter Toho Studios entered negotiations with Filmation for an animated series based on the property that was intended for air during the 1969-70 television season.

[8] Paralleling the situation of main character Ichiro, the anthropomorphized Minilla deals with his own bully in the form of the monster Gabara.

[8] It is likely that screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa created Gabara's name (originally spelled "Gebara") either from Che Guevara or the German word gewalt, meaning violence, as both were prevalent motifs among student protesters of the time.

[4] Patrick Galvan of Syfy Wire defended the film, calling it "a rather sweet little movie and one of Ishiro Honda's most earnest efforts in the Godzilla series.

A poignant gem dealing with serious issues — many of them still relevant today — providing food for thought for adults while entertaining its target audience.