The Return of Godzilla
The 1984 film that rebooted Godzilla.
The Return of Godzilla is a 1984 film directed by Koji Hashimoto, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano, the 16th Godzilla film and the first of the Heisei series. It is a sequel to the 1954 original that ignores every later Showa film.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Koji Hashimoto
- Screenplay
- Shuichi Nagahara
- ja
- 永原秀一
- Story
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Starring
- Ken Tanaka
- Yasuko Sawaguchi
- Yosuke Natsuki
- Keiju Kobayashi
- Kenpachiro Satsuma
- Cinematography
- Katsumi Hara
- ja
- 原一民
- Editing
- Yoshitami Kuroiwa
- Music
- Reijiro Koroku
- ja
- 小六禮次郎
- Studio
- Toho Pictures
Lore & Background
After Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) underperformed, Toho put the franchise on hiatus. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka wanted to revive it with a more serious tone, closer to the original film, and conceived the story himself.
Work began in 1977 but stalled for years, partly because American studios were pitching their own Godzilla projects. Kenpachiro Satsuma plays Godzilla.
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