Giant monsters rose up all over Earth, with the final one being Godzilla, and destroyed human civilization. Two alien races arrived at the last minute to help—the highly religious Exif and the engineering-obsessed Bilusaludo—but they failed. A single spaceship escaped, with a mixed crew, looking for a new world. Twenty years later, with things looking
Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) Four films, one synopsis: Aliens–wacky inept aliens–plan to take over the world in the most logical fashion: using giant monsters. Why use advanced weaponry when you can use over-sized bipedal critters? Godzilla, the atomic destroyer and all around swell
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla isn’t much, but that still puts it miles above its predecessors. The aliens are now space apes, in human form, naturally. The big news is that Godzilla has just one opponent. That’s shaking things up. It is a laser-shooting mechanical Godzilla, so fearsome that the real lizard only stands a chance with
In the years since Godzilla was trapped in ice, M-Force, made up of humans and vinyl-wearing mutants, has protected the world from the threat of giant monsters with sophisticated sci-fi weapons, wire-fu, and posing–lots and lots of posing. When a 1200-year-old “fossil” of a giant cyborg is discovered, mutant good-guy Ôzaki is assigned to bodyguard
In the far future of 1999, the giant monsters of the world, including Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and others no one cares about, have been imprisoned on an island cleverly named Monster Land (Monster Island in the subtitled version, which is… better). Of course all is not well as aliens plan to invade Earth using the
A Princess goes missing after an assassination attempt, and turns up in Japan, claiming to be a 5000 year old prophetess from outer space (Venus in the subtitled version, Mars in the dubbed). She predicts that Rodan will rise from a volcano, Godzilla will destroy a ship, and a space monster named King Ghidrah will
Yuri (Chiharu Nîyama), a faux reporter for a fake documentary TV series, stumbles upon information about three guardian monsters, Baragon, Mothra, and Ghidorah, who will rise up to defend Japan when Godzilla returns. Obsessed with reporting real news, she sets out to film the monster combat. Her father is an admiral who lived through Godzilla’s
Godzilla is back, and out-of-work scientist and partial comic-relief, Professor Yuji Shinoda and his daughter, calling themselves the Godzilla Prediction Network, want to study him. They drive up and down the coast, joined by a full comic-relief reporter, because that’s how you study a giant monster. Meanwhile, the head of a government crisis agency takes
When Kobayashi crashes his sea plane on a small island, he discovers a second Godzilla (the first died in Gojira) fighting an enormous, mutated Anklyosaur. The beasts fall into the sea and soon turn up in Osaka, and destroy it. Godzilla disappears into the ocean, and Kobayashi, and his more-able friend, Tsukioka, search for the
Dr. Shiragami, believing the spirit of his dead daughter inhabits a rose, splices Godzilla’s DNA with the flower’s, creating a giants rose-monster. Meanwhile, a psychic has sensed that Godzilla will return, so a bio-lab starts working on radioactivity-eating bacteria. This draws out American corporate terrorists and Arabic terrorists, who will do anything to get the
A hard to define nuclear event has caused Godzilla’s internal nuclear “heart” to overheat, and the giant monster will soon explode, destroying Earth’s atmosphere. At the same time, creatures created by the oxygen destroyer that killed the original Godzilla forty years ago have appeared and threaten to lay waste to Japan. The scientific/military organization known as G-Force
In Godzilla vs. Gigan, the aliens are intelligent space cockroaches (disguised as humans of course) and the evil monsters double team is a plastic model of Ghidorah and a turkey with a dull spinning blade in its tummy. If you are a fan of Ghidorah, don’t fret over how horrible he looks when he first