Godzilla - The Return of the Monster

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Movie
German title Godzilla - The Return of the Monster
Original title ゴ ジ ラ , Gojira
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1984
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK Unknown
Rod
Director Koji Hashimoto
script Shuichi Nagahara
production Tomoyuki Tanaka
music Reijirō Koroku
camera Katsuhiro Kato
cut Yoshitami Kuroiwa
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Godzilla - The Return of the Monster ( Japanese ゴ ジ ラ , Gojira ) is a Japanese giant monster film by Koji Hashimoto from 1984. The so-called Heisei season begins with the film . In the film, Godzilla has been an all-destructive monster again for a long time.

action

On a stormy night, a fishing boat, the Yahata Maru, approaches an island. The young biology student Hiroshi Okumura is on board. Not knowing that there is a volcano on the island, the fishermen are drifting closer and closer to the island. Suddenly the volcano erupts and a terrible scream is heard.

Goro Maki, a reporter from Tokyo Press, accidentally finds the missing ship floating in the sea. On board he finds traces that indicate a fight, and lots of dehydrated human bodies. Hiding in a locker, Maki discovers Okumura, a student. No sooner has he found him than he is attacked by a huge parasite, but Okumura saves his life.

Arrived in Japan, Okumura is interviewed by Hayashida. Meanwhile, Maki tries to inform the public. But the government has given orders to keep the matter secret. Maki meets Okumura's sister Naoko and tells her that her brother is still alive. Meanwhile Godzilla has attacked and destroyed a Russian nuclear submarine. Now finally the government decides to inform the public; panic breaks out.

Now Godzilla turns up at a nuclear power plant to absorb its radioactivity. Hayashida and his team have rushed there to research it, and they actually come up with an idea how to drive Godzilla away: through migratory bird calls.

Godzilla is attracted by the migratory bird calls. That is why they want to build a system on the Mihara volcano that imitates the ultrasonic waves of migratory birds and thus lures Godzilla into the volcanic crater. The Prime Minister gives his approval and work begins.

Still, Godzilla shows up in Tokyo, where nothing can stop him. The military is powerless until the "Super X" appears, a flying machine without wings that can withstand the heat rays of Godzilla thanks to titanium protection. With cadmium bombs she can put Godzilla out of action for a while. But when Godzilla rams a Russian freighter in Tokyo Bay, he automatically triggers a nuclear missile in the direction of Tokyo. The Americans shoot down an interceptor missile from Okinawa , which intercepts the Russian nuclear missile.

But the detonation is too close to Tokyo. The radioactivity that Godzilla absorbed in the explosion brings him back to life and turns Tokyo into a battlefield for good; the "Super X" is destroyed by it.

Hayashida has now arrived at the Mihara volcano and begins to lure Godzilla with ultrasound waves. Godzilla leaves Tokyo and is on his way there. The army has attached detonators to the rim of the crater, causing Godzilla to fall into the magma.

background

When Godzilla - The Devil's Brood (Mekagojira no gyakushu), the last Godzilla film of the Showa era, came out in 1975 , they wanted to produce a new Godzilla film as early as 1979 , but the time was not yet ready. Classics like Godzilla and the primeval caterpillars (Mosura tai Gojira) from 1964 and Orders from the Dark (Kaiju Daisenso) from 1965 were successfully brought back to the cinema. But in 1984, 30 years after the original Godzilla , they wanted to bring out a sequel.

Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka had asked Ishirō Honda and Akira Ifukube if they would like to direct the film and compose the music again, both declined. Eventually Tanaka brought Koji Hashimoto and Teruyoshi Nakano on board and filming could begin.

In 1989 the sequel Godzilla, the Urgiant appeared .

For the American version, extra scenes were shot again with Raymond Burr , who played the role of the journalist Steve Martin in the first Godzilla film and was hired for some dialogues again. However, since there was now a well-known Hollywood actor named Steve Martin , Burr's role name was renamed Mr. Martin to avoid confusion.

For the German version, which opened in theaters on July 26, 1985, the film was shortened from 103 minutes to 82 minutes. In this version u. a. the scene in which Godzilla destroys a Russian nuclear submarine.

reception

The 16th Godzilla movie was released in Japanese cinemas on December 15, 1984. In Japan the film grossed around 11 million US dollars. In North America, the box office income was around 4.1 million US dollars.

The film received very mixed reviews, with the critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website rating the film 20 percent positive. The film received significantly better reviews from the audience, where 66 percent liked the film.

“Tension-free remake of the 1954 film; despite some fashionable ingredients a naive disaster like its predecessor. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Godzilla 1985 (1984) | Ultimate Movie Rankings. Retrieved November 30, 2019 (American English).
  2. ^ Godzilla 1985 (1985) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  3. Godzilla 1985. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  4. Godzilla - The Return of the Monster. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used