Tagged:Godzilla
Mothra (???, Mosura?) is a 1961 giant-monster movie from Toho Studios, directed by genre regular Ishir? Honda with special effects by legend Eiji Tsuburaya. It is the kaiju eiga debut of screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa, whose fantastic yet intelligent approach to the genre grew to prominence during the 1960s. The film stars Frankie Sakai, a popular [...]
Endless warfare and environmental pollution has brought forth giant monsters, which are a grave danger to the world. As a result, the Earth Defence Force (EDF) is created to protect the planet, uniting every nation. The organization is equipped with some of the best of technology and weapons, warships and soldiers, as well as mutants [...]
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus is a 2000 film directed by Masaaki Tezuka and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura. Japan is threatened not only by Godzilla, but by a gigantic flying monster and its legions of hungry larva. As the monsters go at it, the Japanese military scrambles to destroy all them all. An experimental [...]
Kenichiro Terasawa (Kosuke Toyohara), an author of books on psychic phenomena, believes he’s discovered Godzilla’s true origin. During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island were unintentionally protected from harm by Godzillasaurus. The soldiers left near the end of the war, and the island was destroyed by a hydrogen bomb [...]
Matango , also known as Fungus of Terror and Attack of the Mushroom People, is a 1963 tokusatsu eiga (Japanese “special effects film”). It was directed by Ishiro Honda, written by Takeshi Kimura based on the story “The Voice in the Night” by William Hope Hodgson (an adaptation credit is given to Masami Fukushima and [...]
Godzilla 2000: Millennium is a 1999 kaiju film directed by Takao Okawara and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura. It was the twenty-third film released in the Godzilla series. It is the only film to feature Orga. Toho released the film in Japan in 1999, a year after the release of TriStar’s Godzilla. TriStar [...]
In 1995, a group of soldiers and scientists are setting up at Birth Island to try Project T against Godzilla. The plan is to plant a device on Godzilla which will allow the G-Force to control the mutant dinosaur telepathically, but the project fails. Meanwhile, Mothra sends a Fairy Mothra from space to Earth, and [...]
In 1996, after the death of SpaceGodzilla, Birth Island is found destroyed. Godzilla’s adopted son, Little Godzilla, is presumed dead at first but later reveals himself as a larger and more powerful sub-adult due to the excess radiation and is re-named Godzilla Junior. Godzilla, covered in glowing lava-like rashes, enters Hong Kong and destroys most [...]