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Overview

User Rating:
6.1/10   1,206 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Kazuki Omori (writer)
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Release Date:
14 December 1991 (Japan) more
Plot:
Time travelers use Godzilla in their scheme to destroy Japan to prevent the country's future economic reign. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Admirable late-night programming - fantastic fun entertainment! more (40 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Kosuke Toyohara ... Kenichiro Terasawa
Anna Nakagawa ... Emmy Kano
Megumi Odaka ... Miki Saegusa
Katsuhiko Sasaki ... Professor Mazaki
Akiji Kobayashi ... Yuzo Tsuchiashi
Tokuma Nishioka ... Takehito Fujio
Yoshio Tsuchiya ... Businessman Yasuaki Shindo
Kenji Sahara ... Minister Takayuki Segawa
Kôichi Ueda ... Ikehata, the mad old soldier
Sô Yamamura ... Prime Minister
Yasunori Yuge ... Army Chief
Kiwako Harada ... Chiaki Moriyuma
Kenpachiro Satsuma ... Gojira
'Hurricane Ryu' Hariken ... Kingugidora
Chuck Wilson ... Chuck Wilson
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (USA) (video title)
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Runtime:
103 min | USA:100 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

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For the advance trailers, the footage of Ghidorah came from _San daikaijū: Chikyu saidai no kessen (1964)_. more
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Factual errors: On the US Naval ship in 1944, the Captain refers twice to another officer as, "Major (Spielberg)". The rank of Major doesn't exist in the US Navy, and the collar device Spielberg wore was that of Lt. Commander. more
Quotes:
Kenichiro Terasawa: Hey, Emmy, could you please answer a question for me?
Emmy Kano: What is it?
Kenichiro Terasawa: Tell me now, did my book become a bestseller?
Emmy Kano: Actually, hardly anyone even knew about your book.
Kenichiro Terasawa: [trying to hide his disappointment] I see.
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Movie Connections:
Spin off Godzilla: Save the Earth (2004) (VG) more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Admirable late-night programming - fantastic fun entertainment!, 28 June 2004
Author: Ben_Cheshire from Oz

Hitchcock would have admired the no-nonsense progression of this movie. There's no stuffing around with unnecessary sub-plots or boring character histories basically what we want to hear about is Godzilla.

This is from the modern series of Godzilla redoes. The original was 1955, and millions of camp sequels followed in the 60's - and now these latest movies in the 90's. So this looks like a modern movie - with modern technology available, yet they've retained the puppet-like Godzilla. Many have complained at how fake it looks - but considering all the other self-reference, they've definitely done it one purpose. Why do Godzilla computer animated when the vintage puppet Godzilla is so fun!

There's nothing better than a camp movie that knows its camp - this is very fun stuff. For example, the obvious parody of American sci-fi flicks: we see two US soldiers discussing casually how they'll take over the island they've just discovered "yes, the stars and stripes will fly here too." And they see our heroes flying in on their time machine/ufo and think its a space ship (which it is). One says to the other: "Let's just keep this secret. You can tell your son about it, when he's born, Major Spielberg." The slickness of the entertainment actually is the best homage to Spielberg here. These are the kinds of movies Spielberg makes, and the kind of movies we all used to love when we were kids. Good on them, I say.

There is plenty of sci-fi action: UFOs, time machines and futuristic creatures. There are also references to American war movies in the war-like sequences with US troops fighting Godzilla on the Bikini Atoll (or whatever atoll it is - one famous for Nuclear testing). There's adventure, also: the troupe going back in a time machine to 1954 to try and wipe Godzilla from existence is a very exciting adventure premise.

7/10. Thoroughly recommended entertainment.

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