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1985 · United States, Japan

Godzilla 1985

Tonight at a glance

Runtime: 87 min
Age rating: PG
Language: Japanese
Country: United States, Japan
Violence: Mild
Frights: Moderate

Why tonight?

Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
In Japanese — subtitles on.

The story

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.

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train
scientist
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kaiju

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Shin Takuma — Hiroshi "Ken" Okumura
Warren J. Kemmerling — General Goodhue
James Scott Hess — Colonel Raschen
Travis Swords — Major McDonough
Eitarō Ozawa — Finance Minister Kanzaki
Taketoshi Naitō — Takegami, Chief Cabinet Secretary
Nobuo Kaneko — Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Mizuho Suzuki — Foreign Minister Emori
Takeshi Katō — Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
Sho Hashimoto — Captain of Super X
Junkichi Orimoto — Director-General of the Defense Agency

Directed: R.J. Kizer, Koji Hashimoto
Written: Straw Weisman, Lisa Tomei, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Hideichi Nagahara

Production

Rating: 6.8 / 10 · 201 ratings
Studio: New World Pictures, Toho Pictures, Toho Eizo Bijutsu

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