Godzilla 1985 (1985)
Godzilla 1985 (1985)
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Cast & Crew.
Raymond Burr
Steve Martin
Ken Tanaka
Goro Maki
Yasuko Sawaguchi
Naoko Okumura
Shin Takuma
Hiroshi Okumura
Keiju Kobayashi
Prime Minister Mitamura
Eitarō Ozawa
Finance Minister Kanzaki
Taketoshi Naitō
Takegami, Chief Cabinet Secretary
James Hess
Colonel Raschen
Mizuho Suzuki
Foreign Minister Emori
Junkichi Orimoto
Director-General of the Defense Agency
Hiroshi Koizumi
Geologist Minami
Kei Satō
Chief Editor Gondo
Takenori Emoto
Desk Editor Kitagawa
Sho Hashimoto
Captain of Super X
Nobuo Kaneko
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Reuben Bercovitch
Writer
Kunio Murai
Secretary Henmi
Fred Dekker
Writer
Yoshifumi Tajima
Environmental Director General Hidaka
Akira Murao
Writer
Shigeo Katô
Ship Captain
Tetsuya Takeda
Bum
Koji Ishizaka
Power Plant Guard
Kenpachirō Satsuma
Godzilla
Warren J. Kemmerling
General Goodhoe
James Scott Hess
Colonel Raschen
Travis Swords
Major McDonough
Yōsuke Natsuki
Dr. Hayashida
Koji Hashimoto
Director
R.J. Kizer
Director
Norio Hayashi
Producer
Mutsumi Toyoshima
ProductionDesigner
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 26, 1985
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Content RatingPG
Budget$700,000
Box Office$4,116,395
Genres
Wiki.
Godzilla 1985 is a 1985 kaiju film directed by R. J. Kizer and Koji Hashimoto. The film is a heavily re-edited American localization of the Japanese film The Return of Godzilla, which was produced and distributed by Toho Pictures in 1984. In addition to the film being re-cut, re-titled, and dubbed in English, Godzilla 1985 featured additional footage produced by New World Pictures, with Raymond Burr reprising his role as American journalist Steve Martin from the 1956 film Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, which itself was a heavily re-edited American adaptation of the 1954 Japanese film Godzilla.
Both the New World Pictures and Toho versions serve as direct sequels to the original 1954 Godzilla, with Godzilla 1985 also serving as a sequel to Godzilla, King of the Monsters!. The same adaptation techniques used to produce Godzilla, King of the Monsters! were implemented with Godzilla 1985, with the original Japanese footage being dubbed and edited together with the American footage. The film retains the original musical score by Reijiro Koroku, while also integrating portions of the score for the 1985 Canadian film Def-Con 4, composed by Christopher Young.
Godzilla 1985 was met with mostly unfavorable reviews upon its release in the United States. However, it had a minor cult success on home video. Like Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, much of the nuclear and political overtones featured in the original Japanese film were removed from the American version. Godzilla 1985 was the last Godzilla film produced by Toho to be distributed theatrically in the United States until the release of Godzilla 2000.