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Mosura tai Gojira (1964) -- A greedy developer unwittingly hatches a gigantic baby moth upon Tokyo, while Godzilla strikes once again.

Overview

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Director:
Ishirô Honda
Writer:
Shinichi Sekizawa (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 September 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Nothing Like This Ever On the Screen! more
Plot:
A greedy developer unwittingly hatches a gigantic baby moth upon Tokyo, while Godzilla strikes once again. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Another one of Ishiro Honda's classic monster movies more

Cast

  (in credits order)
Akira Takarada ... News Reporter Ichiro Sakai
Yuriko Hoshi ... News Photographer Junko 'Yoka' Nakanishi
Hiroshi Koizumi ... Prof. Miura
Yu Fujiki ... Reporter Jiro Nakamura (with egg and frying pan)
Emi Ito ... Shobijin (Twin Fairy)
Yûmi Ito ... Shobijin (Twin Fairy)
Yoshifumi Tajima ... Kumayama
Kenji Sahara ... Banzo Torahata - U.S.:Shiro Torahata
Jun Tazaki ... Editor Arota
Kenzo Tabu ... Mayor
Yutaka Sada ... Old Man
Akira Tani ... Village Headman
Susumu Fujita ... General
Ikio Sawamura ... Priest
Ren Yamamoto ... Sailor
Yoshio Kosugi ... Chief of Infant Island
Toshihiko Furuta ... Soldier
Katsumi Tezuka ... Soldier
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi ... Longshoreman
Kôzô Nomura ... Soldier
Seishiro Kuno ... Aide
Shin Otomo ... Police Officer
Senkichi Omura ... Villager
Hironobu Wakamoto ... Villager
Wataru Omae ... Islander
Koji Uno ... Journalist
Yutaka Nakayama ... Islander
Tadashi Okabe ... Soldier
Miki Yashiro ... Schoolteacher
Haruo Nakajima ... Gojira
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kôji Uruki
Harold Conway ... Weapon's Expert on US Ship (uncredited)
Osman Yusuf ... Missile Surveyor on US Ship (uncredited)
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Directed by
Ishirô Honda 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Shinichi Sekizawa  writer

Produced by
Sanezumi Fujimoto .... executive producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka .... producer
 
Original Music by
Akira Ifukube 
 
Cinematography by
Hajime Koizumi 
 
Film Editing by
Ryohei Fujii 
 
Production Design by
Takeo Kita 
 
Production Management
Boku Morimoto .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Koji Kajita .... chief assistant director
 
Sound Department
Hiroshi Mukoyama .... sound mixer
Sadamasa Nishimoto .... sound effects editor
Hisashi Shimonaga .... sound effects
Hisashi Shimonaga .... sound technician
Fumio Yanoguchi .... recording director
 
Special Effects by
Hiroshi Mukoyama .... special effects opticals
Teruyoshi Nakano .... assistant director of special effects
Teizo Toshimitsu .... special effects suit designer
Eiji Tsuburaya .... director of special effects
Akira Watanabe .... art director of special effects
 
Visual Effects by
Sadamasa Arikawa .... director of special effects photography
Kuichiro Kishida .... special effects lighting
Yukio Manoda .... optical photographer
Minoru Nakano .... optical effects animation
Yoshiyuki Tokumasa .... optical photography
Sokei Tomioka .... special effects cameraman
 
Stunts
Haruo Nakajima .... stunt choreographer
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Shoshichi Kojima .... lighting technician
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Godzilla Against Mothra (Japan: English title)
Godzilla Fights the Giant Moth
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla vs. the Giant Moth
Godzilla vs. the Thing (USA)
Mothra vs. Godzilla (International: English title) (literal title)
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Runtime:
Germany:87 min | USA:89 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12 (nf)
Company:
Toho Company more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Because of the commercial success of Kingu Kongu tai Gojira (1962), Toho decided to release another Godzilla film in 1964, San daikaijû: Chikyû saidai no kessen (1964). The Mosugoji suit, though, needed to go through some repairs. During the shooting of this film, the mouth had become wobbly and would not work properly. The head had also caught fire, which didn't help the suit much. So the head of the Mosugoji suit was replaced by one of a sturdier design. "Mosugoji II," as some fans refer to the repaired suit, also had more mobility than the original Mosugoji. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After Professor Miura scrapes part of the Mothra egg into a culture disc, he answered News Reporter Ichiro Sakai's question. In the next scene when Kumayama appears, Miura is scrapping the egg again. more
Quotes:
News Reporter Ichiro Sakai: Listen, when the girls came to us, we did nothing to help them, so why would they help us?
Editor Arota: Look, you three are the only ones who can talk to the girls. We need help or everything will get trampled. Godzilla will crush our entire nation!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) more
Soundtrack:
The Prayer of the Fairies more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Another one of Ishiro Honda's classic monster movies, 19 June 2006
9/10
Author: jmgalvan-1 from United States

As a major fan of the original dark, haunting kaiju movies, I very much enjoy watching "Godzilla vs. Mothra" even though I still can't understand why they call Mothra "the Thing" (maybe it's just in the Americanized dubbed version).

Godzilla's appearance in this movie is very good, however, there are some problems with his mouth in this movie. They are very wobbly and that's because in the sequence where Godzilla emerges from underground, the suit got damaged and the mouth got loose. And later on, the head caught on fire, although if you ask me, that was pretty cool and showed how invincible and invulnerable Godzilla really is.

The music's superior with legendary composer Akira Ifukube campusing the score. Eiji Tsuburaya handles the great special effects and Ishiro Honda's talents as a director come through in this movie.

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