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Anguirus (Japanese: アンギラス, Hepburn: Angirasu) is a fictional monster, or kaiju, which first appeared in Godzilla Raids Again (1955), the second film in the Godzilla franchise. Anguirus is the first monster to be shown engaging in combat with Godzilla in a film. [ 1 ]
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack [a] (often abbreviated as GMK) [3] [4] is a 2001 Japanese kaiju film directed and co-written by Shusuke Kaneko. The 26th film in the Godzilla franchise and the third of the Millennium era , it serves as a direct sequel to Godzilla (1954), ignoring the events of every other ...
Megaguirus (Japanese: メガギラス, Hepburn: Megagirasu) is a fictional monster, or kaiju who first appeared in Toho's 2000 film Godzilla vs. Megaguirus.A mutated version of the fictional dragonfly-like insect known as Meganulon (メガヌロン, Meganuron), Megaguirus is regarded as the queen of the species; according to Toho, she is 50 meters (164 feet) long, has a wingspan of 80 meters ...
Three Giant Monsters: Earth's Greatest Battle) is a 1964 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd., it is the fifth film in the Godzilla franchise, and was the second Godzilla film produced that year, after Mothra vs. Godzilla.
New monster suits for Godzilla and Anguirus were constructed for the film, while Rodan, Kumonga, Minilla, Gorosaurus, Manda, Baragon, Mothra, and King Ghidorah suits were modified from previous films, with Ghidorah having less detail than he had in previous films. [12] There were 3 different scales of the Moonlight SY-3 created or the film.
Toho also drew inspiration from the three-headed dragon Zmey Gorynych or King Dragon キング・ドラゴン (Kingu Doragon) [27] in the Japanese version of the 1956 Soviet film Ilya Muromets, which had been distributed theatrically in Japan by Shintoho in March 1959. [28] [29] King Ghidorah's name is composed of "King" (キング, Kingu) and
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002, stock footage cameo) Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) Kaiju Bunraku (2017) Kong: Skull Island (2017, cave painting) Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018) Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018) Godzilla: King ...
Other examples of kaiju include Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, King Kong, Gamera, Gappa, Guilala, and Yonggary. There are also subcategories including Mecha Kaiju (Meka-Kaijū), featuring mechanical or cybernetic characters, including Moguera, Mechani-Kong, Mechagodzilla, and Gigan, which are an offshoot of kaiju.