The Return of Godzilla, released as Godzilla (ゴジラ, Gojira) in Japan and edited into Godzilla 1985 in America, is a 1984 daikaiju film. The sixteenth film in Toho's Godzilla series, it was produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and directed by Koji Hashimoto with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano.
This was the first in the Heisei Series of Godzilla films. It was Tanaka's intent to restore the darker themes and mood of the early films in the series. The Ret...
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The Return of Godzilla, released as Godzilla (ゴジラ, Gojira) in Japan and edited into Godzilla 1985 in America, is a 1984 daikaiju film. The sixteenth film in Toho's Godzilla series, it was produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and directed by Koji Hashimoto with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano.
This was the first in the Heisei Series of Godzilla films. It was Tanaka's intent to restore the darker themes and mood of the early films in the series. The Return of Godzilla is a reboot to all Godzilla films except 1954's Godzilla, to which it is a direct sequel.
This film picks up in 1984, 30 years after the original Godzilla was killed. A fishing vessel, caught in a terrible storm, encounters a new Godzilla, much larger than his predecessor from the 1950s. Days later, reporter Goro Maki is sailing in the oceans and discovers the wrecked fishing vessel. He investigates and finds only one survivor, Hiroshi Okumura. The other crew members were killed by a giant sea louse, a parasite which had been...
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