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Mosura tai Gojira (1964)
Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1964
Running Times: 87 mins (Germany) 89 mins (USA)
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm Tohoscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Toho
Executive Producer: Sanezumi Fujimoto
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Production Manager: Boku Morimoto
SCRIPT
Script: Shinichi Sekizawa
DIRECTION
Director: Ishirô Honda
Chief Assistant Director: Koji Kajita
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Hajime Koizumi
Lighting: Shoshichi Kojima
Lab: Tokyo Laboratory Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ryohei Fujii
MUSIC
Music: Akira Ifukube
SOUND
Recording Director: Fumio Yanoguchi
Sound Mixer: Hiroshi Mukoyama
Sound Effects: Hisashi Shimonaga SPECIAL EFFECTS
Director of Special Effects: Eiji Tsuburaya
Assistant Director of Special Effects: Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects Art Director: Akira Watanabe
Suit Designer: Teizo Toshimitsu
VISUAL EFFECTS
Director of Special Effects Photography: Teisho Arikawa
Optical Effects Animation: Minoru Nakano
Optical Photographers: Yukio Manoda, Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
Special Effects Cameraman: Sokei Tomioka
Special Effects Lighting: Kuichiro Kishida
Opticals: Hiroshi Mukoyama
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Takeo Kita
STUNTS
Stunt Choreographer: Haruo Nakajima CAST
Akira Takarada (Ichiro Sakai)
Yuriko Hoshi (Junko 'Yoka' Nakanishi)
Hiroshi Koizumi (Professor Miura)
Yu Fujiki (Jiro Nakamura)
Emi Ito, Yumi Ito (Shobijin)
Yoshifumi Tajima (Kumayama)
Kenji Sahara (Banzo Torahata)
Jun Tazaki (Arota)
Kenzo Tabu (Mayor)
Yutaka Sada (old man)
Akira Tani (village headman)
Susumu Fujita (public relations officer)
Ikio Sawamura (priest)
Ren Yamamoto (sailor)
Yoshio Kosugi (Chief of Infant Island)
Toshihiko Furuta, Katsumi Tezuka, Kôzô Nomura, Tadashi
Okabe (soldiers)
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi (longshoreman)
Seishiro Kuno (aide)
Shin Otomo (police officer)
Senkichi Omura, Hironobu Wakamoto (villagers)
Wataru Omae, Yutaka Nakayama (islanders)
Koji Uno (journalist)
Miki Yashiro (schoolteacher)
Haruo Nakajima (Gojira)
Harold Conway (weapon's expert on US ship - uncredited)
Osman Yusuf (missile surveyor on US ship - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Following a storm, a giant egg is washed up
on the shore near the area being destroyed by a property developer,
Banzo Torhata. He sees the egg as another way to make money and puts
it on display to the public, despite being warned by a pair of tiny
fairies from Infant Island that the egg will hatch and the resulting
the larvae will wreak havoc. Things go from bad to worse when Godzilla
revives and again goes on the rampage. With the gigantic Mothra on
her way to reclaim her egg, the stage is set for a battle royale between
the two behemoths.
AVAILABILITY
Japan
Laserdisc Distributor: Toho Video (as part of the Champion Matsuri
Collection)
South Korea
Theatrical Distributor: Kuk Dong
USA
Theatrical Distributor: AIP
Video Distributors: Paramount Home Video; Simitar Video
DVD Distributor: Simitar (7474); Simitar (7603 – 5-pack with
Gojira (1954), Mosura tai Gojira (1964), Kaijû daisenso (1965),
Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969), Mekagojira
no gyakushu (1975))
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
West Germany
Rating: 12 (nf)
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1964
April
29: Japan – theatrical release
July
Day Unknown: South Korea – theatrical release
September
17: USA – theatrical release
1974
April
5: West Germany – theatrical release
1995
January
25: France – theatrical release
1998
May
5: USA - DVD release (Simitar (7474))
1999
March
16: USA - DVD release (Simitar (7603 – 5-pack with Gojira (1954),
Mosura tai Gojira (1964), Kaijû daisenso (1965), Gojira-Minira-Gabara:
Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969), Mekagojira no gyakushu (1975)))
POSTER TAGS
WHAT IS IT... How much terror can you stand?
SEE the armies of the world destroyed! SEE the BIRTH of the world's
most terrifying monster! SEE the war of the GIANTS!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Godzilla contra los monstruos –
Spanish title
Godzilla Fights the Giant Moth
Godzilla und die Urweltraupen – German title
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla vs. the Giant Moth
Godzilla vs. the Thing
Mothra contre Godzilla – French title
Mothra möter Godzilla – Swedish title
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Panik in Tokyo – German title
Watang! Nel favoloso impero dei mostri – Italian
title
LINKS
SEQUELS
San daikaijû: Chikyu saidai no kessen (1964)
Kaijû daisenso (1965)
Gojira-Ebira-Mosura: Nankai no daiketto (1966)
Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko (1967)
Kaijû sôshingeki (1968)
Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969)
SEQUEL TO
Gojira (1954)
Gojira no gyakushu (1955)
Mosura (1961)
Kingukongu tai Gojira (1962)
SEE ALSO
Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidora: Daikaijû soukougeki (2001)
Rudora no hihou (1996)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
Gojira Fuantajî ~SF Kôkyô Fuantajî~ (1984) KEYWORDS
eggs; giant insects; giant monsters; godzilla; insects; journalists;
miniature people; moths; radiation; reporters; sequels; twins
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