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Gojira / Godzilla, King of the Monsters
The first of the Godzilla movies, and the most somber and
serious in tone, Gojiro was originally a 98-minute Japanese
horror film, until a U.S. company bought the rights and reissued
the film at 79 minutes, replacing sequences involving a Japanese
reporter with new inserts of a dour, pipe-smoking Raymond Burr.
Both versions appear together for the first time in this release
from Sony Wonder.
Godzilla Raids Again
Godzilla is back, and this time he’s not alone! Godzilla and the
spiny monster Anguirus are in a heated battle on a small Japanese
island. As the threat of destruction s, two Japanese heroes
muster their courage for the final showdown with Godzilla.
Mothra vs. Godzilla
After a fierce typhoon, Mothra’s gigantic egg washes ashore
Japan. Meanwhile Godzilla reawakens and tramples across the land,
heading straight for the big egg. Can Mothra save her offspring
from Godzilla? Will Japan survive this epic monster battle?
Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster -- A prophetess from Venus
foretells cataclysmic disasters! Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan
reappear in Japan, wreaking havoc! A giant meteor ces into
the ains and the three-headed, fire-spitting space dragon
King Ghidorah emerges! As the Venusian's prophecies come true,
assassins from a tiny Asian kingdom hunt her down, while the
Earth monsters must decide whether to settle their petty
differences and join forces against the extraterrestrial enemy!
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Invasion of Astro-Monster/Godzilla vs. Monster Zero -- Aliens
from Planet X borrow our monsters for a little extermination
project, but they've got something else up their sleeves: world
domination! Using mind-control technology, these
vinyl-and-sunglasses wearing spacemen turn Godzilla, Rodan and
King Ghidorah loose in Japan, demanding Earth's surrender! It's
up to American astronaut F. Glenn, his galaxy-trotting buddy
Fuji, and nerdy inventor Tetsuo to break the aliens' hold on the
monsters and save our planet from certain doom.
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Evil spacemen from the Black Hole are plotting to flatten Tokyo
and build their own utopian city. Aided by deranged scientist Dr.
Mafune, the aliens unleash a rebuilt Mechagodzilla and the
monster Titanosaurus to do their evil bidding, until Godzilla
surfaces to defend his homeland and the earth-shattering
destruction begins.
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
More visually splendid and imaginatively written than the other
Godzilla sequels, this (the fourth in the series) starts when
Mothra's gigantic egg washes ashore in Japan, having been
dislodged from Mothra Island by a hurricane. Two tiny twin girls
(sometimes singing like dual-diminutive Dorothy Lamours) from the
island come to plead for the return of the egg by the greedy
business guys who bought it for a tourist attraction, but to no
avail. Radiation from nuclear testing revives Godzilla from the
earth, who proceeds to threaten the egg and the cities, unless
Mothra and his larvae hatched from the egg can stop him. The
battle sequences between Mothra and Godzilla, and between
Godzilla and the larvae, are spectacularly vivid and colorful.
--Jim Gay
Terror of Mechagodzilla
In 1974, Inoshiro Honda, the original and best Godzilla
director, returned after a five-year absence to direct this
20th-anniversary commemoration to Gojira (the original Japanese
name for Godzilla, before the West Anglicized it). This is the
fifteenth film in the Godzilla series, and the eleventh by
director Honda. Yet again the aliens (from the third planet of
the black hole, whatever that means; they don't really provide
directions) stage a takeover of Earth, this time with the aid of
Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus (they're just what they sound
like). They owe the mad scientist Mafuni for the use of
Titanosaurus, who in turn owes the aliens for resurrecting his
daughter, Katsura, badly hurt in an accident, albeit now as a
cyborg with the ability to control their two mecha-monsters. It
shapes up as the fight of the century when Godzilla is pressed
into service for our side. The battling behemoths afford the most
dramatic and vivid fight scenes in all of Godzilladom in this
one. Let's hope the aliens don't win; they're so smug. --Jim Gay