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Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1964)



"Mosura tai Gojira" (original title)



89 min - Action | Adventure | Drama



Ishiro Honda directed this fourth Godzilla film (the second for Mothra), which is bogged down at the start by an

uninteresting set-up involving corporate intrigue and a pair of boring reporters. Godzilla's first appearance is not very

impressive, as he rises from a sandy beach looking distinctly the worse for wear since his last outing in Kingukongu Tai

Gojira (1963). The miniscule Peanut Sisters (Emi Ito, Yumi Ito) are around again, looking for one of the giant eggs which

their moth goddess is always losing, and the usual heavy-handed moralizing about mankind's destructive nature is very much

in evidence. Other than the peculiar set decoration on an irradiated island which looks as if it fell out of a 1930s

adventure movie, the first 50 minutes or so are quite weak. After that, however, the toy tanks start firing, the natives

start fleeing, the beasts start battling, and the film starts to be entertaining. The fight scenes are well-staged, given

the clumsiness of the participants, and stand as some of the best such sequences of the 1960s. The eventual capture and

electrocution of Godzilla in a giant net is nicely handled as well. This installment was followed by the much more interesting

San Daikaiju: Chikyu Saidai No Kessen (1965), the first of the space-oriented entries in the series.







Director:

Ishirô Honda



Writer:

Shin'ichi Sekizawa



Stars:

Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi



The 4th film in the Godzilla series, it was the first in which Toho began bringing in monsters from other productions, having

Godzilla cross paths with Mothra. This trend would continue later in the same year with Rodan, in the film Ghidorah the Three

Headed Monster.



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