Movie
Godzilla 1985
Overview
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
Details
- Release date
- 1985-08-23
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Genres
- Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- New World Pictures, Toho Pictures, Toho Eizo Bijutsu
- Country
- United States of America, Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Raymond Burr as Steven Martin
- Keiju Kobayashi as Prime Minister Mitamura
- Ken Tanaka as Goro Maki
- Yasuko Sawaguchi as Naoko Okumura
- Shin Takuma as Hiroshi "Ken" Okumura
- Warren J. Kemmerling as General Goodhue
- James Scott Hess as Colonel Raschen
- Travis Swords as Major McDonough
- Eitarō Ozawa as Finance Minister Kanzaki
- Taketoshi Naitō as Takegami, Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Nobuo Kaneko as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
- Mizuho Suzuki as Foreign Minister Emori
Crew
- R.J. Kizer - Director
- Koji Hashimoto - Director
- Lisa Tomei - Screenplay
- Hideichi Nagahara - Screenplay
- Straw Weisman - Screenplay
- Tomoyuki Tanaka - Story
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