Godzilla returns

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Movie
German title Godzilla returns
Original title Gojira no gyakushu
Gojira no gyakushu poster.jpg
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1955
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK Unknown
Rod
Director Motoyoshi Oda
script Shigeaki Hidaka , Takeo Murata
production Tomoyuki Tanaka
music Masaru Satō
camera Seiichi Endo
cut Kazuji Taira
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Godzilla (1954)

Successor  →
The Return of King Kong

Godzilla Returns ( Japanese ゴ ジ ラ の 逆襲 , Gojira no gyakushū , Eng. "Gojira's counterattack") is a Japanese feature film from 1955. The black and white film about the Japanese monster Godzilla is the sequel to Godzilla from 1954. Directed by the Science fiction film was directed by Motoyoshi Oda and the script was written by Shigeaki Hidaka and Takeo Murata . Tōhō produced the horror film .

action

The pilot Kobayashi has to make an emergency landing with his plane on the uninhabited island of Iwato Island. When his colleague Tsukioka finds him safe and sound, the two encounter two fighting monsters who immediately fall into the ocean. Tsukioka immediately identifies one of the monsters as Godzilla. The authorities reported by the two pilots report that the other monster is Anguirus, which is the last living specimen of an ankyrosaurus.

Dr. Yamane shows the authorities a film of Godzilla's Act of Destruction, which he himself had witnessed a year earlier. According to him, this time it is a new Godzilla, which cannot be destroyed by any known weapon; the oxygen destroyer that brought the rescue a year earlier no longer exists because its inventor Dr. Serizawa burned the formula for the weapon and killed himself in destroying the Godzilla. Dr. Yamane's proposed measure to pilot the Godzilla away from the coast with flares make the monster even wilder. Nevertheless, one day Godzilla appears unexpectedly in Osaka, but is lured back into the sea by the flares dropped by airplanes.

Meanwhile, criminals break out of a prisoner transport and steal a gas tanker. When they rush into a building with this in Osaka and start a fire, Godzilla is attracted by it. Anguirus appears and attacks Godzilla. An intense battle breaks out between the two monsters until Godzilla brings Anguirus down with his fiery breath.

Meanwhile, the military is looking for Godzilla. Kobayashi and Tsukioka discover this off the coast of a small icy island. In vain they try to bomb Godzilla, who in turn crashes Kobayashi's plane with his breath of fire. Tsukioka finally brings the military the saving idea of ​​triggering an avalanche with the aircraft projectiles, which Godzilla buries under himself.

backgrounds

The film was released in Japanese theaters on April 24, 1955. It premiered in Germany on August 29, 1958.

In America, similar to the original Godzilla a year earlier, its own US version came onto the market. Here, however, they went so far as to rename Godzilla Gigantis in order to give the audience the impression of a new monster - a decision that Paul Schreibman, the producer of the American version, later regretted.

reception

  • “Primitive Japanese horror tale [...]. Ridiculous trick technology. ” - 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958. Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 162
  • "Japanese horror fairy tale with amusing trick technology." - " Lexicon of international film " (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
  • In comparison, the film received a significantly lower rating than its predecessor, with 56 percent of the critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website rating it as positive. A comparable bad result was also achieved with the audience, since only 37 percent of the audience liked the film.
  • After the unexpected success of the original Godzilla film, it was decided to expand it with a sequel. Godzilla Returns didn't live up to these expectations. A budget of $ 8.34 million was set for this film.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World premieres according to IMDb
  2. ^ Godzilla Raids Again (1955). Accessed August 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Godzilla Returns. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .

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