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Distributed by Toho and produced under their effects subsidiary Toho–Eizo, it is the 15th film in the Godzilla franchise, serving as a direct sequel to the 1974 film Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla and the final entry of the Showa Era of the franchise, followed nine years later with The Return of Godzilla.
Mechagodzilla (Japanese: メカゴジラ, Hepburn: Mekagojira) is a fictional mecha character that first appeared in the 1974 film Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.In its debut appearance, Mechagodzilla is depicted as an extraterrestrial villain, a robot created by alien invaders to confront and destroy Godzilla.
Like the previous films in the franchise's Millennium era, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla is a reboot that ignores the events of every installment in the Godzilla film series aside from the original 1954 Godzilla. A direct sequel, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., was released on December 13, 2003.
6. Godzilla vs. Hedorah, a.k.a. Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (1971) Returning to the ecological-parable roots of Ishiro Honda’s 1954 original, Godzilla vs. Hedorah is a Trojan horse of a ...
Hirata was born in Seoul, Korea, [2] in 1927, into a wealthy family. He was educated at the prestigious Tokyo University's School of Law. [2] Before joining Shintoho as an assistant director (under his older brother, Yoshiki Onoda), Hirata moved into still photography, and eventually joined Toho in 1953, under the studio's "New Face" program, which would lead to his casting in Godzilla ...
To get more of Godzilla, check out the new movie, which has raked it in at the box office, making $200 million in the U.S. and more than $307 million internationally. Even after six decades there ...
Over here, "Godzilla" was king of the drive-ins: an archetypal kiddie horror flick that made $2 million (on a $100,000 budget) and begat dozens of sequels featuring such ancillary monsters as ...
Tomoyuki "Yūkō" Tanaka [4] (Japanese: 田中 友幸 （ ともゆき ）, Hepburn: Tanaka Tomoyuki, April 26, 1910 – April 2, 1997) was a Japanese film producer. Widely regarded as the creator of the Godzilla franchise, he produced most of the installments in the series, beginning in 1954 with Godzilla and ending in 1995 with Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.