The Return of Godzilla (1984)
The Return of Godzilla (1984)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Ken Tanaka
Goro Maki
Yasuko Sawaguchi
Naoko Okumura
Yōsuke Natsuki
Professor Makoto Hayashida
Keiju Kobayashi
Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
Shin Takuma
Hiroshi Okumura
Eitarō Ozawa
Minister of Finance Kanzaki
Hiroshi Koizumi
Professor Minami
Taketoshi Naitō
Chief Cabinet Secretary Takegami
Kenpachirō Satsuma
Godzilla
Takeshi Katō
Trade Minister
Mizuho Suzuki
Foreign Minister Emori
Junkichi Orimoto
Director-General of the Defense Agency
Kei Satō
Chief Editor Gondo
Akira Murao
Writer
Tetsuya Takeda
Homeless man
Nobuo Kaneko
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Takenori Emoto
Desk Editor Kitagawa
Ryuzo Nakanishi
Writer
Kunio Murai
Secretary Henmi
Shinichi Sekizawa
Writer
Norio Hayashi
Producer
Shigeo Katô
Captain of the Yahata Maru
Kiyomi Kanazawa
Producer
Koji Ishizaka
Power plant guard
Joe Raznack
Kramer, American Ambassador (uncredited)
Joseph Grace
Zazimov, Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)
Walter Nichols
Rosenburg, Special Envoy for the President of the United States
Alexander Kilis
Chefsky, Special Envoy for the Soviet Union
Tadao Tanaka
CastingDirector
Akira Toriyama
Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
Mutsumi Toyoshima
ProductionDesigner
Yuji Horii
Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 15, 1984
Original Nameゴジラ
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 43m
Budget$6,000,000
Box Office$11,000,000
Filming LocationsJapan
Genres
Wiki.
The Return of Godzilla (ゴジラ, Gojira) is a 1984 Japanese kaiju film directed by Koji Hashimoto, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. Distributed by Toho and produced under their subsidiary Toho Pictures, it is the 16th film in the Godzilla franchise, the last film produced in the Shōwa era, and the first film in the Heisei series. In Japan, the film was followed by Godzilla vs. Biollante in 1989.
The Return of Godzilla stars Ken Tanaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, and Keiju Kobayashi, with Kenpachiro Satsuma as Godzilla. The film serves as both a sequel to the original 1954 film and a reboot of the franchise that ignores the events of every Shōwa era film aside from the original Godzilla, placing itself in line with the darker tone and themes of the original film and returning Godzilla to his destructive, antagonistic roots. The film was released theatrically in Japan on December 15, 1984, Critics praised Godzilla's return, Koroku's score, themes, special effects and darker tone. The following year, a heavily-re-edited localized version, titled Godzilla 1985, was released in the United States by New World Pictures; it features new footage, with Raymond Burr reprising his role from Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), itself an American localization of Godzilla (1954).