A seaplane pilot scouting bonito for a fishing fleet spots Godzilla fighting an anklyosaurus on a distant island. Soon the two kaijus take their grudge match to Osaka, while the populace panics, valiant lady radio operators like Setsuko Wakayama try to coordinate defenders, and the Defense Force tries to bomb the survivor before he can wreck Osaka as thoroughly as he had Tokyo.
Toho got this into the theaters within six months of the premiere of GOJIRA, and the production shows the haste, including a wind-up toy being used for long shots. The critics preferred this to the original, because apparently they didn't care for sci-fi movies that were actually about anything; they didn't realize that the entire genre is symbolic. As for me, it was a well plotted script about boys with their toys beating the big bad dragon, which was all it was intended to be.
Toho got this into the theaters within six months of the premiere of GOJIRA, and the production shows the haste, including a wind-up toy being used for long shots. The critics preferred this to the original, because apparently they didn't care for sci-fi movies that were actually about anything; they didn't realize that the entire genre is symbolic. As for me, it was a well plotted script about boys with their toys beating the big bad dragon, which was all it was intended to be.