Kanegon Iwasaki

About me:

  ボクの名前は加根田金男です。
  『ウルトラQ』第１５話「カネゴンの繭」に登場したカネゴンです。
  身長２メートル、体重が２００キログラムです。
  出身は多摩地区桜ヶ丘です。
  主食は硬貨とお札で、１日に必要な額は３,５１０円(１９６６年当時)です。
  あまりお金に意地汚くなるとボクになっちゃうよ。
 Appeared Ultra Q 15th story," a cocoon of kanegon "
・Height: 2 meters
・Weight: 200 kg
・Hometown: Tokyo suburbs (Sakuragaoka Tama area), the boy's
  room of the house Kaneo Kaneda.
・Staple food bills and coins. The amount needed per day 3,510 Yen (1966)
・You'd be very greedy for money,You'll Turn into Me!!!!!
      
  金にとりつかれた少年、金男は十円のために命をも投げ出さんばかりの執心ぶりで、その金男が
  死ぬ思いで、買った繭。
  ふるとカネの音の鳴る不思議な繭であった。
  両親は、金男の執心ぶりを案じ、このままだとカネゴンになるとおキュウをすえる。
  その夜、繭が巨大になり、中にはザクザク金貨がつまっていた。
  金男は興奮のあまり、繭の中に落ち込んでしまう。
  翌る朝、金男はカネゴンに変身していた。
  両親は急変した金男の姿にびっくりギョウテンする。
  金男の仲間たちは、カネゴンになった金男の姿をみて、なんとか元に戻そうと躍起になるが駄目だった。
  ついに神の智恵を借りようと、祈祷師のオババの家へ行く。
  そのオババの云う神のお告げによると、金男たちが最も恐れている、工事現場の鬼監督、
  ヒゲの中松を逆さにせよ！というのだ。
  金男の仲間たちは、そこでトラクター上の中松を逆立ちさせようと必死になる。
  その中にはカネゴンの金男もいた……。

  「ウルトラQ ・あらすじ集」より引用

 Episode15 Kanegon's Cocoon
 Supervisor: Harunosuke Nakagawa
 Scenario: Masahiro Yamada
 Monster: Coin monster-Kanegon
 Guest: Fumio Watanabe, Masanari Nihei, Torahiko Hamada , and Akiko Nomura
 Kanegon is a fictional kaiju from the tokusatsu TV series, Ultra Q created by Eiji
 Tsuburaya.
 Kanegon appeared in Episode 15, written by Masahiro Yamada.
 The story of Kanegon is very famous in Japan and can be linked to well-known  western  transformation/metamorphosis stories such as
 Kafka's The Metamorphosis or the movie The Fly.
 Like many other kaiju, a large amount of merchandise, including toys, exists with
 the Kanegon character likeness.  Ultra Q:
 Kanegon appears in episode 15 of Ultra Q (1966), named Kanegon's Cocoon.
 The story is one of a little boy, Kaneo, who treasures money above everything.
 One morning, he wakes up transformed in a human-sized monster with
 a clam-shaped 'purse' head with zippered mouth and has to eat money to survive.
 The Ultra Q Episode Kanegon's Cocoon originally aired on April 10, 1966
 Story:
 A greedy boy named Kaneo Kaneda (in Japanese, kane means money)
 finds a small
 cocoon-like object at the dump site where all the children enjoy scavenging
 for loot, much to the chagrin of the site's workers.
 Kaneo is delighted to hear the sound of coins rattling inside of the object.
 When his parents warn him about the creature named Kanegon, who eats
 money and is brought about by such greedy behavior, Kaneo takes little heed to
 their story.
 Instead, he is ecstatic to find that the little cocoon has grown enormous,
 as he envisions vast riches inside.
 Eager to obtain his new-found wealth, Kaneo reaches into the cocoon and is
 pulled inside.
 The next morning, the young boy wakes up, "hatching" from the cocoon as
 the monster Kanegon.
 After frightening his parents away, Kanegon seeks out his friends for help.
 He must have money to eat or his body will lose energy and he could die.