Gojira vs. Mosura (1992)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Takao Okawara

Writer:

Kazuki Omori (writer)

Release Date:

12 December 1992 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot:

In the midst of another rampage by Godzilla, Mothra emerges to save the human race from Battra.

Plot Keywords:

Godzilla | Creature | Monster Movie | Monster Terrorizes City | Moth

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Tetsuya Bessho	...	Takuya Fujita
Satomi Kobayashi	...	Masako Tezuka
Takehiro Murata	...	Kenji Andoh
Saburo Shinoda	...	Professor Fukazawa
Akiji Kobayashi	...	Yuzo Tsuchiashi
Akira Takarada	...	Environmental Planning Board Chief Jyoji Minamino
Makoto Otake	...	Marutomo Head Takeshi Tomokane
Keiko Imamura	...	Cosmos #1
Sayaka Osawa	...	Cosmos #2
Kenpachiro Satsuma	...	Gojira
'Hurricane Ryu' Hariken	...	Batora
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Megumi Odaka	...	Miki Saegusa
Yoshiko Tanaka	...	Asuka Okouchi
Kôichi Ueda	...	Marutomo Employee

Also Known As:

Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (USA) (video title)
Godzilla vs. Mothra

Runtime:

102 min | USA:100 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:PG | Germany:12 | UK:PG | USA:Unrated

Company:

Toho Company

Trivia:

This film's origin went back to 1990 with the concept Mothra Vs. Bagan. The film would include battles all across Asia in places like Shanghai and Bangkok. However, when Gojira tai Biorante (1989) failed, Toho blamed the fact that an unfamiliar monster was used and this project was put on hold to give Godzilla another shot with Gojira tai Kingu Gidora (1991).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the larva Mothra bites Godzilla's tail in the ocean, look closely at the base of the tail as it's tossing Mothra upwards. You can clearly see the tail is a separate prop on some kind of support that has distorted it's shape - widening it unnaturally.

Quotes:

Miki Saegusa: [psychically] Godzilla! Oh my God!

Movie Connections:

Spin off Godzilla: Save the Earth (2004) (VG)

Godzilla fights double the bug without the help of Deep Woods Off

Number four in the second Godzilla wave. Big G tangles with two super insects, Mothra and Battra (Black Mothra). Excellent fight scenes when G takes on the two moth larva in the ocean and later when he fights the grown up versions in an amusement park. Overall good, but the movie could do without the Indiana Jones rip off character. Mothra's egg looks like a giant Easter egg, it's even got a swirl pattern to it. Otherwise cool FX, although in one part pieces of a collapsing building actually fall through people. Godzilla and Battra plunge into the ocean at the end, Mothra is victorious. I guess it never occurs to the military that they could get rid off the rampaging moths by lighting a 600-ft. candle.