| Gojira vs Kingu Gidorâ (1991)
Country of Origin:
Japan
Year of Production: 1991
Running Times: 100 mins (USA)
103 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: Dolby CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Toho
Executive Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer: Shogo Tomiyama
SCRIPT
Script: Kazuki Omori
DIRECTION
Director: Kazuki Omori
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Yoshinori Sekiguchi
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Michiko Ikeda
MUSIC
Music: Akira Ifukube
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Director: Koichi Kawakita
Godzillasaurus Designer: Fuyuki Shinada
LOCATIONS
Locations: Kyushu, Japan; Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; Tokyo, Japan CAST
Kosuke Toyohara (Kenichiro Terasawa)
Anna Nakagawa (Emmy Kano)
Megumi Odaka (Miki Saegusa)
Katsuhiko Sasaki (Professor Mazaki)
Akiji Kobayashi (Yuzo Tsuchiashi)
Tokuma Nishioka (Takehito Fujio)
Yoshio Tsuchiya (Yasuaki Shindo)
Kenji Sahara (Minister Takayuki Segawa)
Kôichi Ueda (Ikehata)
Sô Yamamura (Prime Minister)
Kiwako Harada (Chiaki Moriyuma)
Kenpachiro Satsuma (Gojira)
'Hurricane Ryu' Hariken (Kingugidora)
Chuck Wilson
Richard Berger (Grenchiko)
Robert Scott Field (Android M-11)
Kent Gilbert (ship commander) PLOT SUMMARY
A group of time travellers from the 23rd century
arrive in Japan in 1992 to warn that Godzilla will trigger a nuclear
holocaust in the 21st century. They plan to travel back even further
in time, to 1944, to prevent the original mutation of a surviving
dinosaur by nuclear testing on Ragos Island. But the time travellers
are not as altruistic as they seem - with the timeline changed and
Godzilla no longer around, they return to 1992 and unleash King Ghidorah
in an effort to destroy Japan so that it can't become the major economic
power of their own time... CAPSULE REVIEW
A complex storyline, Godzilla looking wonderful and some great effects
(the speeded-up running scenes notwithstanding) result in one of the
best of the 90s Godzilla films. As with most time paradox stories,
there are loopholes, but it all sort of hangs together well and the
whole is a satisfying return to form for the franchise. Probably a
good place for newcomers to the series to start with. AVAILABILITY
South Korea
Theatrical Distributor: Kuk Dong
USA
Theatrical Distributor: TriStar Pictures
DVD Distributor: Columbia/Tristar (03132 – double billed with
Godzilla & Mothra: Battle for Earth))
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Germany
Rating: 12
UK
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1991
December
14: Japan – theatrical release
1998
April
28: USA - video release
November
1: USA - DVD release (Columbia/Tristar (03132 – double billed
with Godzilla & Mothra: Battle for Earth)) ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Godzilla - Duell der Megasaurier -
German title
Godzilla Contra King Ghidorah - Portugese title
Godzilla contra King Ghidorah - Spanish title
Godzilla vs King Ghidorah - US video title LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Gojira (1954)
Gojira (1984)
Gojira tai Biorante (1989)
SEQUEL
Gojira VS Mosura (1992)
SEE ALSO
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Gojira: Kaiju dai-rantou (2002)
Independence Day (1996)
Sudden Impact (1983)
Super Godzilla (1993)
The Terminator (1984) KEYWORDS
cyborgs; dinosaurs; the future; giant monsters; godzilla; helicopters;
radiation; sequels; spiral staircases; submarines; swords; teleportation;
time travel; ufos; world war ii
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